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Should journals solicit submissions from preprint archives?
The use of preprints has increased drastically in the life sciences over the past few years. Preprints are manuscripts submitted to open access servers prior to, or in some cases instead of, formal publication. One popular preprint server is bioRxiv (although there … Continue reading
Posted in community, Molecular Ecology, the journal, science publishing
Tagged bioRxiv
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Nick Fountain-Jones wins Harry Smith Prize for study of virus transmission among urban bobcats
The Harry Smith Prize is awarded for the best paper in Molecular Ecology in the previous year led by an early-career researcher. The 2018 Prize has been awarded to Dr. Nick Fountain-Jones for his paper ‘Urban landscapes can change virus gene flow and evolution … Continue reading
Robin Waples receives 2018 Molecular Ecology Prize
Robin Waples, the 2018 winner of the Molecular Ecology Prize, received a plate commemorating the award in a ceremony Sunday at the Conservation Genetics 2018 conference. The prize recognized Waples’s extensive contributions in the use of molecular genetic data to … Continue reading
Posted in community, Molecular Ecology, the journal
Tagged Molecular Ecology Prize, Robin Waples
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For flexible eDNA analysis, just capture whatever you want
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
Posted in community ecology, DNA barcoding, metagenomics, methods
Tagged environmental dna, sequence capture
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Transcriptome sequencing catches bats’ immune systems napping
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
Posted in transcriptomics
Tagged immune response, Myotis lucifugus, white nose syndrome
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Robin Waples awarded the 2018 Molecular Ecology Prize
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
Posted in community, Molecular Ecology, the journal
Tagged Molecular Ecology Prize, Robin Waples
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Support the Molecular Ecologist with all-new evolution and ecology-themed merch!
We don’t often make a big deal about it, but The Molecular Ecologist has long offered merchandise for purchase to help cover our operating expenses, which are chiefly web hosting and small stipends for contributors. The platform we’d used for … Continue reading
Population genetic simulation … in Lego
Julien Yann Dutheil, of the Institut des Sciences de l’Évolution de Montpellier, has a long track record of work in population genetics and genomics methods, particularly in the C++ programming language. He recently posted a video to YouTube, though, which … Continue reading
Nominations open for the Harry Smith Prize in Molecular Ecology
Posted on behalf of the Harry Smith Prize Selection Committee. The editorial board of the journal Molecular Ecology has established a new prize to recognize the best paper published in Molecular Ecology in the previous year by graduate students or … Continue reading
Field notes from city streets
I spent this morning in Los Angeles city parks, pulling up clover. This attracted less attention than you might expect. Angelenos are, as a group, not inclined to bother people who aren’t doing anyone else any obvious harm, and honestly … Continue reading
Posted in adaptation, fieldwork, plants
Tagged Global Urban Evolution Project, Trifolium repens, urban evolution, white clover
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