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Nick Fountain-Jones wins Harry Smith Prize for study of virus transmission among urban bobcats
A camera-trapped bobcat near Anaheim, California, where Fountain-Jones et al (2017) examined Feline Immunodeficiency Virus transmission. (Observation from iNaturalist) The Harry Smith Prize is awarded for the best paper in Molecular Ecology in the previous year led by an early-career researcher. The … Continue reading
Robin Waples receives 2018 Molecular Ecology Prize
Robin Waples receives the prize plate from prior Molecular Ecology Prize winner Fred Allendorf (photo credit: Diane Haddon) Robin Waples, the 2018 winner of the Molecular Ecology Prize, received a plate commemorating the award in a ceremony Sunday at the … 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
A little brown bat (Myotis lucifugans) infected with the white-nose fungus. (Flickr: US Fish and Wildlife Service) Populations of multiple North American bat species have been more than decimated by white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease that spreads within roosting colonies … 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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Nominations Open for 2018 Molecular Ecology Prize
We are soliciting nominations for the annual Molecular Ecology Prize. The field of molecular ecology is young and inherently interdisciplinary. As a consequence, research in molecular ecology is not currently represented by a single scientific society, so there is no … Continue reading