[jadrig]

Yeah Mike, I hear ya on that one. When I was working in a Lab at Duke University...we were doing genetic barcoding for bacteria/algae in Urban/Agricultural streams (74 of them).
There are actually disposable kits that you can buy for around $100.00 where you can extract the DNA. You just need lab facilities to read/print the data.
Down the hall from my laboratory, there were big posters with DNA data for panther chameleons throughout Madagascar. I never got to talk to those people, but wished I had.

If I had posted on here two weeks ago, I would have remembered exactly what Bill's reasoning was...
I think it was more of a combination of things...Madagascar politics being the main obstacle.

[miguel camacho!]

I don't know what I was thinking when I said I didn't have the equipment in my lab. I actually do, however, there's still that issue hovering about: money to get there, then money to run the samples. But thenagain even if I had the money, I'm not really interested in butting into Bauer and Raxworthy's territory (especially seeing as my knowledge gap remains).