Monthly Archives: August 2018

Not my problem

Posted on 30 Aug, 2018 by Laetitia Wilkins

Do American scientists know that doing research in America is a necessary step for many scientists from other parts of the world in order to get a permanent job in academia in their home country? Once in the US, these … Continue reading →

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Evolution 2018: assortative mating, combinatorial speciation and genome dynamics

Posted on 24 Aug, 2018 by Alex Twyford

The Evolution conference in Montpellier is over, and as the sun, wine and great science become a memory, here is my recap of some conference highlights following on from a great first day: Sharon Strauss (University of California Davis) gave … Continue reading →

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ESA 2018 Recap

Posted on 23 Aug, 2018 by Kathryn Turner

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something BLUE …in which I shoe-horn a summary post of this giant meeting into a cutesy subtitle, but it mostly works.

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Evolution 2018 Day 1: From genomics in the wild, to new models of selection

Posted on 19 Aug, 2018 by Alex Twyford

It’s Evolution conference time! Evolution has long been my favourite fixture in the conference calendar, with its diverse mix of theoretical and empirical studies that span the full range of evolutionary biology. This year it’s the second Joint Congress on … Continue reading →

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For flexible eDNA analysis, just capture whatever you want

Posted on 14 Aug, 2018 by Jeremy Yoder

Environmental DNA sampling for multi-taxa species detection (i.e., the inference of species presence from genetic material in the environment) has been a hot topic lately. Some of the most exciting recent work has used high-throughput sequence (HTS) to simultaneously screen … Continue reading →

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Transcriptome sequencing catches bats' immune systems napping

Posted on 13 Aug, 2018 by Jeremy Yoder

Populations of multiple North American bat species have been more than decimated by white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease that spreads within roosting colonies and becomes deadly during hibernation. A paper just released online early at Molecular Ecology adds support to a hypothesis … Continue reading →

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Just So Stories addendum: How the stickleback keeps getting its stickles

Posted on 6 Aug, 2018 by Katharine Coykendall

Model organisms have been essential tools for genetics research since the field was formed.  Kelle Freel discussed the characteristics that make for a good model organism in a previous TME post.  Briefly, traits like short generation time, lots of offspring, … Continue reading →

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Robin Waples awarded the 2018 Molecular Ecology Prize

Posted on 1 Aug, 2018 by Jeremy Yoder

The 2018 Molecular Ecology prize has been awarded to Robin Waples for his work on conservation biology and management, particularly as the leading expert on approaches for using molecular markers to estimate and understand effective population size in natural populations, … Continue reading →

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