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<p class=MsoNormal>Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I am new to the list, so please excuse my ignorance if the questions
I ask have been answered before. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>The introductory Biology class (first semester course) I will
teach for the first time this semester provides an overview of phylogeny for
about a third of the course. I was introduced to Mesquite at a program on
Cladistics offered by the American Museum of Natural History for High School
Teachers and want to incorporate the use of Mesquite in the laboratory. Has
anyone developed laboratory exercises for an Introductory Biology course using
Mesquite that you (they) would be willing to share? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Another related question, since my small campus has few
specimens, I wanted to use Excel spreadsheets containing morphological (in the
case microbes, cytological) characteristics for groups so that the students
could use for analysis in Mesquite.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>In advance, thanks for your assistance.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Rob<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Robert
Loeb, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Kenan
Fellow<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>National
Tropical Botanical Gardens<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Associate
Professor of Biology and Forestry<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Penn
State DuBois<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>College
Place<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>DuBois,
PA 15801</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>814-375-4707<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>814-375-4724 (FAX)</span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Personal Web Site: </span><a
href="http://www.personal.psu.edu/rxl5/"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:blue'>http://www.personal.psu.edu/rxl5/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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