Monthly Archives: March 2013

What we're reading

Posted on 8 Mar, 2013 by Jeremy Yoder

As we head into the weekend, here’s a few things we’ve noticed that might be worth your screen-time. In the journals Garud, N.R., Messer, P.W., Buzbas, E.O. & Petrov, D.A. Soft selective sweeps are the primary mode of recent adaptation … Continue reading →

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Molecular ecology views: Shenandoah butternuts

Posted on 7 Mar, 2013 by Jeremy Yoder

Sean Hoban, a postdoc at the Università di Ferrara, Italy, sends along these photos from his Ph.D. fieldwork on endangered butternut trees in beautiful Shenandoah National Park, USA. Many more pictures of Sean’s field work in forests across the eastern … Continue reading →

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Speciation with gene flow and the virtual beanbag: Genome-level effects increase divergence during ecological speciation, but linkage is not required

Posted on 6 Mar, 2013 by Jeremy Yoder

This post is a guest contribution by Dylan Goldade, Kathryn Theiss, and Chris Smith, from the Biology Department at Willamette University. See below for the coauthors’ afflilations and research interests. In a famous address given on the hundredth anniversary of the … Continue reading →

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What we're reading

Posted on 1 Mar, 2013 by Jeremy Yoder

As we head into the weekend, here’s a few things we’ve noticed that might be worth your screen-time. In the journals Lindsey, H.A., Gallie, J., Taylor, S. & Kerr, B. 2013. Evolutionary rescue from extinction is contingent on a lower … Continue reading →

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