Kimberly García-Méndez- Master of Science
- Laboratory Manager at Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Kimberly García-Méndez
- Master of Science
- Laboratory Manager at Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
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Introduction: Seasonal upwelling is a displacement offshore of surface seawater and replacement by cool deeper water with higher nutrient levels by the influence of the wind. On the north Pacific coast of Costa Rica the upwelling is present from December to April. Objective: Within this seasonal upwelling area, Salinas Bay was sampled to determine...
Caribbean coral reefs started to deteriorate before systematic monitoring began and so questions remain about how reefs have changed since human impact and if they have transitioned into functionally ‘novel’ states. To explore these questions, we mapped and bulk-sampled several hectares of mid-Holocene reefs in Caribbean Panama and the Dominican Re...
The evolutionary relationships of the nudibranch genus Dondice Er. Marcus, 1958, its hypothesized synonym with Nanuca Er. Marcus, 1957, as well as its species-level diversity remain unresolved. Here, in order to assess the systematics of Dondice a molecular phylogenetic analysis based on cytochrome c oxidase I and 16S genes was carried out, includi...
Background: The Bocas del Toro Archipelago is located off the Caribbean coast of Panama. Until now, only 19
species of heterobranch sea slugs have been formally reported from this area; this number constitutes a fraction of total diversity in the Caribbean region.
Results: Based on newly conducted fieldwork, we increase the number of recorded hete...
Abstract: The molluscan fauna of Isla del Coco has recently been well documented, but the heterobranch
sea slugs, traditionally called “opisthobranchs”, remain poorly known. We report 13 new records, increasing
the total to 40 species. Of the 13 newly discovered species, the following species had not been previously
recorded along the Pacific Costa...
The intertidal rocky shore of Bahía Panama, within Bahía Culebra in the North Pacific coast of Costa Rica, was sampled to study the biodiversity and the spatial patterns (three sites with differences in wave exposure, and five strata, from low to high tide levels) and temporal variation (a single date in 2007 and 2013) in different microhabitats (o...
During an expedition aimed to study the benthos of subtidal sand bottoms (3-75 m) of Isla del Coco National Park, on the Pacific Ocean side of Costa Rica, a total of 40 species of mollusks were collected and identified. The gastropods were the most diverse with 21 species, followed by the bivalves with 16 species. Also, one species of Polyplacophor...
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Question (1)
Currently, I am trying to determine the population genetic structure of two species of nudibranchs from the Caribbean. Previous research has been done with tradicional molecular methods and this is our fist attempt using NGS. So, I would like know if there is a good services provider in order to get the RAD-seq data for our project. DNA extraction is the only step that we're going to carry out in our lab.
Thanks!
