Demographic, Environmental, and Phenotypic Change but Genetic Consistency in the Jellyfish .

AbstractSpatiotemporal environmental change can produce phenotypic differences within and between populations. For scyphozoans, the effect of environmental variation on phenotype has been unclear because of multiple challenges, including difficulties delimiting populations. Marine lakes, bodies of seawater entirely surrounded by land, provide an opportunity to study discrete populations and capture responses to perturbations.

A comparison of DNA extraction methods for high-throughput DNA analyses.

The inclusion of next-generation sequencing technologies in population genetic and phylogenetic studies has elevated the need to balance time and cost of DNA extraction without compromising DNA quality. We tested eight extraction methods - ranging from low- to high-throughput techniques - and eight phyla: Annelida, Arthropoda, Cnidaria, Chordata, Echinodermata, Mollusca, Ochrophyta and Porifera. We assessed DNA yield, purity, efficacy and cost of each method.