• Use Google Scholar
• Skim/read a bunch of papers that might be interesting
• Use ChatGPT
• Describe what you’re interested in
• Describe the dataset(s) you could use
• Ask it what it thinks you could test…
• I do not expect you to get to grips with the whole literature.
Referencing a few papers here is fine. You need reasons to
do the work you do, but they needn’t be comprehensively
researched.
• Finally, check in the database(s) which of the things you
could test are actually possible (e.g. in this case you’d need
to have genome size and other traits measured for the same
species).
• Use Google Scholar • Skim/read a bunch of papers that might be interesting • Use ChatGPT • Describe what you’re interested in • Describe the dataset(s) you could use • Ask it what it thinks you could test… • I do not expect you to get to grips with the whole literature. Referencing a few papers here is fine. You need reasons to do the work you do, but they needn’t be comprehensively researched. • Finally, check in the database(s) which of the things you could test are actually possible (e.g. in this case you’d need to have genome size and other traits measured for the same species).