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Author Archives: Jeremy Yoder
What we're reading: Genomes from museum specimens, adaptive polyploidy, and "crowdsourced" fertility planning
In the journals Staats, M., R. H. J. Erkens, B. van de Vossenberg, J. J. Wieringa, K. Kraaijeveld, B. Stielow, J. Geml, J. E. Richardson, and F. T. Bakker. 2013. Genomic treasure troves: Complete genome sequencing of herbarium and insect … Continue reading
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What we're reading: mutational bias, local adaptation, insecticide resistance, and CC-BY licensing
In the journals Berg, J. J., and G. Coop. 2013. The population genetic signature of polygenic local adaptation. arXiv: 1307.7759v1. See also Haldane’s Sieve. We exploit the fact that GWAS provide an estimate of the additive effect size of many … Continue reading
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What we're reading: Protease-enforced mutualistic exclusivity, predicting complex traits from SNPs, and keeping up with your scientific reading
In the journals Orona-Tamayo D., Wielsch N., Blanco-Labra A., Svatos A., Farías-Rodríguez R., Heil M., 2013 Exclusive rewards in mutualisms: ant proteases and plant protease inhibitors create a lock-key system to protect Acacia food bodies from exploitation. Molecular Ecology 22: … Continue reading
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What we're reading: Genetic diversity at the range edge, symbiote-mediated host shifting, and the T-rex nontroversy
In the journals Assis J., Castilho Coelho N., Alberto F., Valero M., Raimondi P., Reed D., Alvares Serrão E., 2013 High and distinct range-edge genetic diversity despite local bottlenecks (SJ Goldstien, Ed.). PLoS ONE 8: e68646. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068646. As predicted, … Continue reading
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Will climate change be more relentless than evolution?
Ask any biologist what she considers the most urgently important example of adaptive evolution, and—even if she isn’t currently writing a grant proposal—she’ll probably mention global climate change. More than a century of pumping greenhouse gasses into Earth’s atmosphere has … Continue reading
What we're reading: Invasion genetics, and New Zealand's cutest invader
Peter, B.M., and M. Slatkin. 2013. Detecting range expansions from genetic data. Evolution online early. doi: 10.1111/evo.12202. We introduce a statistic ψ (the directionality index) that detects asymmetries in the two-dimensional allele frequency spectrum of pairs of population. These asymmetries … Continue reading
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Why do we care about population structure?
Arun Sethuraman is a postdoctoral associate with Jody Hey, studying statistical models for divergence population genetics in the Department of Biology at Temple University. You can also find him on Twitter, and on his short story blog. After nearly six years of researching population genetic structure … Continue reading
What we're reading: Selective sweeps in HIV, and rates of molecular evolution in big plants
In the journals Leviyang S., 2013 Computational inference methods for selective sweeps arising in acute HIV infection. Genetics 194: 737–752. doi: 10.1534/genetics.113.150862. HIV escape from CTL [cytotoxic T-lymphocyte] response forms a complex, selective sweep that is difficult to analyze. In … Continue reading
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#Evol2013: Home from Snowbird
On balance, Snowbird, Utah was a pretty great place to hang out with a whole bunch of biologists for five days. This was my sixth Evolution meeting, and I think it was the first one where I’d just about entirely … Continue reading
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What we're reading: Well, actually, we were all at this conference …
As you may have noticed. But I did take a lot of nice photos, anyway. More thoughts on Evolution 2013 forthcoming. It was a great meeting!