Barcode Long Island Team Ant-alyzing Ants
Program:
Barcode Long Island
Year:
2016-17
Research Topic:
Wildlife & health
Taxonomic Group Studied:
Animals: Invertebrate

Project:

Ant-alyzing Ants
Students:
Michael Steffanetta, Gregory Kowalczyk, Danish Farooq
School:
Babylon Junior-Senior High School, Suffolk
Mentors:
Claire Donaldson

Abstract:

The proposal discusses how ants affect their surrounding ecosystem. Ants will be collected within the Babylon Village community. The ants will be collected based off their proximity to poles.Then their DNA will be sequenced using the CO1 gene to observe if there are invasive species and compare genetic diversity.

Poster:

DNA Barcoding Poster
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