Monthly Archives: June 2014

#Evol2014 in tweets

Posted on 26 Jun, 2014 by Jeremy Yoder

Getting free banana from anti-evolutionist on street outside #Evol2014 pic.twitter.com/FLL5zmOHgA — Mohamed Noor (@mafnoor) June 21, 2014 I think it’s fair to say that I was a pioneer of Twitter at the Evolution meetings—back when I set up the website … Continue reading →

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#Evol2014: See you in Raleigh!

Posted on 19 Jun, 2014 by Jeremy Yoder

Evolution 2014, the joint annual meeting of the the American Society of Naturalists, the Society of Systematic Biologists, and the Society for the Study of Evolution, begins this Friday in Raleigh, North Carolina. Many of us are already en route … Continue reading →

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People behind the Science: Dr. Montgomery Slatkin

Posted on 17 Jun, 2014 by John Stanton-Geddes

To honor his recent election to the National Academy of Sciences, we’re featuring Dr. Montgomery Slatkin of the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Slatkin is known for his work in theoretical population genetics, in particular with regard to gene flow … Continue reading →

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Spontaneous mutations—friend or foe?

Posted on 16 Jun, 2014 by Jeremy Yoder

The following is a cross-posting from the Stanford CEHG Blog by Ryo (Ryosuke) Kit, a graduate student in Hunter Fraser’s lab at Stanford University. Evolution has conflicting opinions about spontaneous mutations. Spontaneous mutations produce the genetic variation that drives evolution … Continue reading →

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What we're reading: Genetics of ecological speciation and translating plant genetics to the farm

Posted on 13 Jun, 2014 by Jeremy Yoder

In the journals Arnegard M.E., M.D. McGee, B. Matthews, K.B. Marchinko, G.L. Conte, S. Kabir, N. Bedford, S. Bergek, Y.F. Chan, F.C. Jones, D.M. Kingsley, C.L. Peichel, D. Schluter. 2014. Genetics of ecological divergence during speciation. Nature doi: 10.1038/nature13301. Here … Continue reading →

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What we're reading: Population genetics of an invasive vine, demography and GWAS,

Posted on 6 Jun, 2014 by Jeremy Yoder

In the journals Campitelli, B. E., and J. R. Stinchcombe. 2014. Population dynamics and evolutionary history of the weedy vine Ipomoea hederacea in North America. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, doi: 10.1534/g3.114.011700. We further found significant genetic differentiation at sequenced loci, … Continue reading →

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