Greetings, After speaking with a very knowledgeable sales rep from Fotodyne in October, I was all set to order the dog phylogeny/diversity kit from them for my Evolution course this spring. I just found out that the company has rather abruptly decided to drop all of its educational kits, and focus mainly on equipment sales.
Is there anyone who might have one of these Dog kits that you are not planning to use? If I can't locate a dog kit, I will go back to the BioRad fish phylogeny kit, but I thought the dog kit would be more interesting for the students since many of them have dogs, but few are involved with fish. The other reason for making fish my second choice is that I have used the BioRad kit twice without success. We get protein bands and we successfully find actin, but my students have yet to construct a reasonable phylogenetic tree. From what I have read, the dog lab sounds more reliable in terms of producing usable results. I would need the complete kit including the perishable materials such as enzymes, SNPS etc, since the company no longer has any kits or supplies. Thank you, and Happy New Year, Liane ********************* Liane Cochran-Stafira, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biology Saint Xavier University Department of Biological Sciences 3700 West 103rd Street Chicago, IL 60655 Ph: 773-298-3514 Fax: 773-298-3536 coch...@sxu.edu http://faculty.sxu.edu/dlc1
