In this project we were looking to use a bioinformatics pipeline to find the variation in leucine rich regions (LRR) on the genes coding for toll-like receptors in fundulus heteroclitus. This information will be used to determine if natural selection has occured for the LRR.
We are a bioinformatics research class at Wheaton College (MA) lead by S. Shawn McCafferty and Mark L. LeBlanc. This class began in January 2018 and concludes in May 2018.
From left to right: Elspeth Stewart, Nathaniel Awkerman, Yun Zhang, Kathleen Orechia, Arianna Alfiero, Caren McCarthy