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Monthly Archives: December 2012
In the holiday spirit
It’s that time of year again, where conifers across the globe are chopped down and taken into people’s homes or workplaces in celebration of Christmas. According to the IUFRO (International Organizations of Forest Organizations), over 80 million trees are consumed … Continue reading
What we're reading (under the tree)
Buschiazzo, E., Ritland, C., Bohlmann, J. & Ritland, K. 2012. Slow but not low: genomic comparisons reveal slower evolutionary rate and higher dN/dS in conifers compared to angiosperms. BMC Evolutionary Biology 12: 8. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-12-8 Using a fossil-established divergence time … Continue reading
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Q&A: Stacey Dunn chases pronghorn fawns up Bateman's slope
Stacey Dunn is, objectively, pretty amazing. She started grad school at the Univeristy of Idaho a year before I did, studying sexual selection in pronghorn antelope on the National Bison Range in Montana. In between catching baby pronghorn (so as … Continue reading
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Tagged Bateman slope, microsatellite, paternity analysis, pronghorn, sexual selection, Stacey Dunn
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What we're reading
As we head into the weekend, here’s a few things we’ve found that might be worth your screen time. In the journals Draghi, J. a & Whitlock, M.C. 2012. Phenotypic plasticity facilitates mutational variance, genetic variance, and evolvability along the … Continue reading
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Tagged Call Me Maybe, coevolution, host range, phenotypic plasticity
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Knowing what I know now: The carnival
Ever since I posted some retrospective advice for grad school last month and Scicurious proposed a Carnival of Advice, folks have been sending in reflections on their previous career stage. The result is exactly what I’d hoped for — a … Continue reading
What we're reading
As we head into the weekend, here’s a few things we’ve noticed that might be worth your screen time. In the journals Desai, M.M., Walczak, A.M. & Fisher, D.S. 2012. Genetic diversity and the structure of genealogies in rapidly adapting … Continue reading
Knowing what I know now: Grad school (Katie Lotterhos)
Katie Lotterhos completed her PhD in 2011 at Florida State University, and is currently a post-doc with Mike Whitlock at the University of British Columbia. She studies marine ecology, population genetics, and statistical genomics. If you have advice for yourself … Continue reading