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Request for help with Lynn Dalgarno bio

I've been working on the Lynn Dalgarno bio that was started by a currently inactive editor, and I'm not qualified to edit the list of Selected publications. All the publication listed when I started working on the bio were pre-1975, and I added two that I believe may be announcing the research leading to the Shine-Dalgarno sequence discovery? My best guess is that the pre-1975 list needs to be trimmed, and a post-1975 list needs to be added... With my literature degrees, I suppose I could pick a few from each decade at random, but I'm hoping for help and wiser choices from editors who have actual expertise in biochemistry and genetics? I left the Researchgate listing of 60 of his publications as an External link. Thanks. –– Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 23:32, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

Dubious edits by an IP

See [1] Doug Weller talk 14:37, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Eran Elhaik and Jewish genetics

Please take a look at the discussion about citing Eran Elhaik in the Genetic studies on Jews article. Triggerhippie4 (talk) 23:56, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

Frontiers on the reliable sources noticeboard

An RSN discussion was recently opened about using Frontiers Media for genetic studies. Triggerhippie4 (talk) 04:17, 12 February 2023 (UTC)

General article on genetic-divergence date estimation

We don't seem to have a general/introductory article on the subject of haplogroup divergence time or other closely related senses of phrases like "genetic dating", "genetic timeline", "genetic time estimate", or a zillion other phrases that non-experts might search for (even more specific/informed ones like "haplogroup divergence") in trying to get the gist of how these estimates are arrived at, through what methods. But it's an important science topic, to which more and more people are vaguely exposed, though everything from personal DNA testing to popular-science news about fossil species and their classification. I know we have at least one specific-method article at Molecular clock, but this is quite unlikely to be found by anyone loosely digging around for the overall subject and not already aware of that exact term. And it is not the only method.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  09:29, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Genetic dating currently redirects to Genetic matchmaking, which seems reasonable for non-specialist uses of the term. I agree it would be good to have an overall article on methods for estimating age of events based on genetic data. --{{u|Mark viking}} {Talk} 18:44, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Weirdly specific short descriptions

I'm not a biologist, but the Android app is currently showing me articles on various genes/proteins. Most have the short description Protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens. However, the first one I encountered was about a gene which turned out to be shared with fruit flies, and others I've briefly looked at give the location of the gene in both humans and mice, so I suspect that the description might be misleading on most of the articles it appears on. Musiconeologist (talk) 20:37, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Please see also my query here, about an instance which I changed. Musiconeologist (talk) 21:01, 19 March 2024 (UTC)