Useful Links and Resources
Dung beetles
- ScarabNet: http://www.scarabnet.org/ScarabNet/Home/Home.html
- The Beetle Tree of Life: http://tolweb.org/Scarabaeiformia/9077
- Clarke Scholtz (leader in dung beetle research): http://www.up.ac.za/zoology/old_zoology/staff.php?person=159
- Trond Larsen's Dung Beetle site: http://scarabaeinae.lifedesks.org/
- Frank Krell's website: http://www.dmns.org/science/museum-scientists/frank-krell
- The Coleopterists Bulletin: http://www.bioone.org/loi/cole
- Rob & Erik Stronkhorst's website "Dung Beetles of Africa": http://dungbeetlesofafrica.wordpress.com/
- BBC Nature Wildlife: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Dung_beetle
Software for ecology, evolution and population genetics
- Arlequin : software for population genetics analyses
- DIY ABC : an approach to Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) for inference on population history
- EstimateS : calculates diversity (species richness) estimates
- Picante : an R package for analyzing phylogenetic and trait diversity in ecological communities
- Python : a programming software
- quantiNEMO : program for analysis of quantitative traits in genetically structured populations
- R : statistical computing software
- SPLATCHE: software to simulate genetic diversity taking into account environmental heterogeneity
- Vegan : a package in R that is useful for community ecology
- Vortex: population viability analysis software
- More population genetics software, click here!
Phylogenetics
- ape : a package in R for phylogenetic and evolution analyses
- AWTY : explores Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) convergence in Bayesian phylogenetic inference
- BayesTraits : performs analyses of trait evolution
- BEAST : Bayesian MCMC analysis of molecular sequences
- BEST : Bayesian Estimation of Species Trees
- BUCKy : a program for Bayesian Concordance Analysis (BCA)
- GARLi : a program for inferring phylogenetic trees using likelihood scores
- MEGA : program for reconstructing the evolutionary history of organisms
- Mesquite : comparative phylogenetic analyses
- MrBayes : Bayesian inference of phylogenies
- MsBayes : (Only works on linux operating systems)
- POY : program for cladistic and phylogenetic analysis using sequence and/or morphological data
- PuMA:
- RAxML : Maximum Likelihood-based inference of large phylogenetic trees
- SeaView : a program for sequence alignment and molecular phylogeny
- SNAPP : a BEAST package for inferring species trees and species demographics from independent biallelic markers
- STEM : program for species tree estimation
- TNT : a program for phylogenetic analysis under parsimony
Phylogenetic Tree Viewing
**For a more extensive list of phylogenetics software, visit this wikipedia page by clicking here.
- FigTree :
- TreeView :
**For a more extensive list of phylogenetics software, visit this wikipedia page by clicking here.