Keeping an eye on biology

Science

Volumn 339, Issue 6118, 2013, Pages 408-409

  Singer, Susan R ^a   Schwarz, Jodi A ^b   Manduca, Cathryn A ^a   Fox, Sean P ^a   Iverson, Ellen R ^a   Taylor, Benjamin J ^c,g   Cannon, Steven B ^d   May, Gregory D ^e,h   Maki, Sonja L ^a   Farmer, Andrew D ^e   Doyle, Jeffrey J ^f  

^a CARLETON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b VASSAR COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR GENOME RESOURCES   (United States)

^f National Center for Genome Resources ^*  (United States)

^g Anoka Technical College   (United States)

^h DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGY; EDUCATION; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; STUDENT;

BIOLOGY; CHAMAECRISTA; DNA SEQUENCE; FLOWERING; GENOMICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ISOLATION; SHORT SURVEY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ARTICLE; AWARDS AND PRIZES; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; FABACEAE; GENETICS; INTERNET; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING; UNIVERSITY;

AWARDS AND PRIZES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CURRICULUM; FABACEAE; GENOMICS; INTERNET; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNIVERSITIES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872809154     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1229848     Document Type: Short Survey

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10. Our work was supported by NSF DEB 0746571 and DUE 0837375 to S.R.S. S.R.S. and J.A.S. thank the Carleton and Vassar students who participated in our study. S.R.S. and J.A.S. developed the curriculum and participated in the biology and education research analyses. S.P.F. created the Web site infrastructure and aided in classroom observation and research analysis, along with C.A.M., E.R.I., and B.J.T. S.R.S., S.B.C., G.D.M., S.L.M., A.D.F., and J.J.D. contributed to the Chamaecrista research, including sequencing and assembling the Chamaecrista transcriptome. Institutional review Board approval 08-09 006 (Carleton and Vassar Colleges).