Hello WEL followers! Dragon team started out the week with a DNA emergency! As part of Dr. Keller's (our fearless leader and mother of dragons; pictured on the right) Nanniziopsis guerri research project, which is a cutaneous mycoses in bearded dragons, we had to extract DNA from samples veterinarians had collected from around the nation, [...]
The Wildlife Epidemiology Lab (WEL) houses a variety of reptile colonies for both research and teaching purposes including box turtles, alligator snapping turtles, prairie rattlesnakes, and a variety of other venomous and non-venomous snakes. One of the newest additions is the colony of ten bearded dragons, identified as A-J, who became members of the lab [...]
Hello everyone! Bryce and Ivana here. We are so excited to start our amazing summer of research in the Wildlife Epidemiology Lab with our colony of bearded dragons (Pogonia vitticeps). For those of you that were wondering, those are two of our guys from the lab in the picture blow on the left. But before [...]
