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Nominations open for the 2019 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
Survey results: Journal solicitations from preprint servers
Last December, we posed the question Should journals solicit submissions from preprint archives? and solicited feedback from the community on whether this was a promising path forward for the field. First off, thank you to the 145 people who responded … Continue reading
Posted in community, Molecular Ecology, the journal, science publishing
Tagged bioRxiv
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“It takes all the sequencing you can do, just to keep up with coevolution”
One of the most fundamental observations of evolution is that it never seems to stop. This is particularly true in host-pathogen coevolution, in which each species must adapt in response to the other. This constant evolution is the process biologists … Continue reading
Simple Gantt charts in R with ggplot2 … and Microsoft Excel
making Gantt charts is a form of self-care — Colin J. Carlson (@ColinJCarlson) November 26, 2018 If you’ve ever had to explain how all the elements of a big, multi-part project come together, you’ve probably at least considered making something … Continue reading
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
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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