>>12485953Sounds really interesting actually, anon. You're gonna want to weigh out your options as to how you'd go about figuring out more about that species. A lot of evolutionary biology can be done doing PCR on regions of interest and sequencing small fragments but that would end up requiring a whole lab and be much more expensive than nanopore tech I believe. I don't think you'd be able to avoid dishing out the cost of a good used car on equipment since sequencing is much more complicated than breeding bugs and basic chemistry/organic chemistry (not that working with sequencing is more complicated, just the tech is).
For now, you might have fun looking at genomic studies of already-sequenced scorpion species and look at what sorts of methods they use, maybe also gain some familiarity with looking at the actual genome and downloading the supplementary data, finding a good genome browser software, using BLAST, etc.
Just for example, I looked up "scorpion genome" on google and this paper came up, I;d start with something like it and read up on their techniques. Most "first X genome sequenced" papers include plenty of phylogenetic and evolutionary analyses and mention all the software and tech they use. I haven't read this paper myself though.
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms3602Also don't know if you know about sci hub but use sci hub to download papers for free. Nobody pays for shit.
Anyway good luck anon, sounds like an interesting thing to undertake.
