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What we're reading: The phylogenomics of peanut allergens, saving the world with (and from) evolution, and how to make better figures
In the journals Ratnaparkhe MB, T-H Lee, X Tan, X Wang, J Li, C Kim, LK Rainville, C Lemke, RO Compton, J Robertson, M Gallo, DJ Bertioli, and AH Paterson. 2014. Comparative and evolutionary analysis of major peanut allergen gene … Continue reading
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What we're reading: Hyper-mutating symbionts, cichlid genomes, and active learning in biology class
In the journals Remigi P, D Capela, C Clerissi, L Tasse, R Torchet, et al. 2014, Transient hypermutagenesis accelerates the evolution of legume endosymbionts following horizontal gene transfer. PLoS Biology. 12(9): e1001942. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001942. Following introduction of the symbiotic plasmid … Continue reading
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What we're reading: Genomic selection scans, local adaptation, and the grass is actually pretty green on this side of the publishing fence
In the journals Cadzow M, J Boocock, HT Nguyen, P Wilcox, TR Merriman and MA Black. 2014. A bioinformatics workflow for detecting signatures of selection in genomic data. Front. Genet. 5:293. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00293. Here we describe a basic workflow, constructed … Continue reading
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What we're reading: Genetic diversity and life history, evolutionary rescue, and scientists on social media
In the journals Romiguier, J., P. Gayral, M. Ballenghien, A. Bernard, V. Cahais, A. Chenuil, Y. Chiari, R. Dernat, L. Duret, N. Faivre, E. Loire, J. M. Lourenco, B. Nabholz, C. Roux, G. Tsagkogeorga, A. A.-T. Weber, L. A. Weinert, … Continue reading
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What we're reading: Selection for heterozygosity in threatened seals, and testing Fst outlier tests
In the journals Forcada J and Hoffman JI. 2014. Climate change selects for heterozygosity in a declining fur seal population. Nature. 511:462–465. doi: 10.1038/nature13542. Variation in SAM [Southern Annular Mode of the Antarctic atmosphere] significantly affects most of the life … Continue reading
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What we're reading: Estimating linkage in resequencing data, genomics of host-parasite coevolution, and scientific work-life balance
In the journals Maruki, T., and M. Lynch. 2014. Genome-wide estimation of linkage disequilibrium from population-level high-throughput sequencing data. Genetics 197:1303–1313. doi: 10.1534/genetics.114.165514. … we developed a maximum-likelihood estimator of linkage disequilibrium for use with error-prone sampling data. Computer simulations … Continue reading
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What we're reading: resurrected rodent teeth, the genetic origin of sex, and what's in your ANOVA?
In the journals Harjunmaa E, K Seidel, T Häkkinen, E Renvoisé, IJ Corfe, A Kallonen, Z-Q Zhang, Alistair R. Evans, ML Mikkola, I Salazar-Ciudad, OD Klein, and & J Jernvall. 2014. Replaying evolutionary transitions from the dental fossil record. Nature. … Continue reading
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What we're reading: The creosote-eating gut microbes of wood rats, the molecular taxonomy of bats' diets, and drift in experimental evolution
In the journals Kohl, K. D., Weiss, R. B., Cox, J., Dale, C., Denise Dearing, M. (2014), Gut microbes of mammalian herbivores facilitate intake of plant toxins. Ecology Letters. doi: 10.1111/ele.12329. Creosote toxins altered the population structure of the gut … Continue reading
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What we're reading: Experimental evolution of beetles' immunity, adaptive introgression in mussels, and sexual harassment in the field
In the journals Joop G., O. Roth, P. Schmid-Hempel, and J. Kurtz. 2014. Experimental evolution of external immune defences in the red flour beetle. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 27: 1562–1571. doi: 10.1111/jeb.12406. Intriguingly, we found indication for an interme- diate … Continue reading
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What we're reading: Sexual selection and fish placentas, SNPs versus observational pedigrees, and the stupidest statement ever on replication
In the journals Pollux BJA, RW Meredith, MS Springer, DN Reznick. 2014. The evolution of the placenta drives a shift in sexual selection in livebearing fish. Nature. doi: 10.1038/nature13451. We show that post-zygotic maternal provisioning by means of a placenta … Continue reading
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