Pictures and diagrams:

Group picture of Dr. Wikelski, Daniel, Mónica, Jeff, and Franz - May 1997

Jose and Sandra (assistants from January-March 1997)

Diagramatic drawing of Caamaño (small), (LARGE / detailed)

Map of South America (showing where the Galápagos are)

Map of the Galápagos Islands

Map of Santa Cruz (nearest island to Caamaño)

Caamaño as viewed from the Charles Darwin Research Station on Santa Cruz

Caamaño in March 1997 (with the island of Santra Cruz visible in the background)

Caamaño in May 1997 (with fences made of plastic for retaining newly hatched iguanas for easier capture)

Caamaño in January 1998 (with the island of Santa Fe in the background)

Drawing a blood sample from a territorial male iguana

Branding (permanently marking) a hatchling iguana

Estimating mite (small red speck) abundance on a hatchling iguana

A tick on an iguana

Weighing a hatchling iguana with a spring scale

A copulation of a territorial male with a healthy sized female vs. with a very skinny female

Iguanas sitting upon rocks, . . . more iguanas sitting upon rocks

Female iguanas in a dense nesting area

A proud female iguana guarding / watching a nest site

Observing and recording behavioral activity

Taking a cooling soak in a pool found in a rock

A hunchback spied and captured

The all-purpose pool found in the middle of the island (it grows and shrinks with the tides and rainfall)

Sea lions along the beach

A territorial sea lion

A cooking sea lion

. . . but cooking is hard work

Yet another industrious member of society

Some blue footed boobies with another friendly societal member

One of two land iguanas located on Caamaño (here with Jose)

Battle scars from feisty iguanas (Sandra's wrists) and big bad sea lions (my arm)

Example of a gel with stained/marked bands of various sized DNA fragments

Example of an autoradiograph of various sized pieces of DNA

Diagrammatic overview of the process of constructing a genomic library

Diagram of DNA structure

Diagram of PCR DNA duplication/amplification process

Example of a PCR primer

Steps repeated during the PCR process

Plasmid extraction procedure diagram

QIAGEN QIAamp DNA extraction diagram

Restriction site where enzymes can cut pUC19

Example of a mixed repeated DNA sequence

Pictures of polyacrylamide gels showing PCR products:

Pictures of polyacrylamide gels showing the results of increasing annealing temperature during the PCR process: Getting a sample from a microfuge tube to load into the well of a gel

Loading a sample into a gel well

A closer look at a sample entering a gel well

Electrophoresis apparatus all set up and running

A close look at the dyes beginning to separate once electrophoresis has begun

Indigenous assistant

A sample of the the many tourist activities observed while conducting the observational research on Caamaño
(The sea lions were not overly impressed)  :)

NOTE: This is true and accurate photo-documentation
 

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