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Author Archives: Jeremy Yoder
Molecular ecology views: It's a bird, it's a plane … it's a UAV
From the Laboratory of Geographic Information Systems (LASIG) – Landscape Genetics Group – at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Stephane Joost sends along his view of molecular ecology—from high altitude. Joost’s group applies geographic information systems (GIS) in … Continue reading
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Tagged Buckler mustard, Lake Geneva, unmanned aerial vehicle, VHR DEMS
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Molecular ecology views: Track a pika by its hair
Via the MolecularEcologistView tag on Flickr, Philippe Henry sends images of his doctoral dissertation work on American pika (Ochotona princeps) in the central Coast Mountains of British Colubmia. To understand the pikas’ population genetic structure, he captured DNA samples using … Continue reading
What we're reading: isolation with migration, starch-eating dogs, and politicized science funding
As we head into the weekend, here’s a few things we’ve noticed that might be worth your screen time. In the journals Mailund, T., Halager, A.E., Westergaard, M., Dutheil, J.Y., Munch, K., Andersen, L.N., et al. 2012. A new isolation … Continue reading
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A tale of two Dryad submissions
As it happens, the last two scientific papers I’ve had accepted for publication are also the first two papers for which my first-authorial duties included some substantial journal-mandated archiving of supporting data (beyond uploading a handful of DNA sequences to … Continue reading
Posted in data archiving, peer review
Tagged Dryad, genomics, Joshua tree, Medicago HapMap Project, microsatellite, phylogenetics
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Discussion, now with Disqus
Readers may have noticed that our comments forms have changed—because we’ve installed the Disqus commenting platform for this site. (Old comments are currently being imported into the new system, which should be done within 24 hours.) Disqus offers some nice … Continue reading
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What we're reading
As we head into the weekend, here are a few things we’ve noticed that might be worth your screen-time. In the journals Bell, G. 2013. The phylogenetic interpretation of biological surveys. Oikos. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00405.x. I describe a method of nested … Continue reading
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Syndication, really simple (and, how will you subscribe?)
With the recent announcement that Google Reader’s days are numbered, it’s occurred to me to clean up the options for RSS (really simple syndication) subscriptions here at The Molecular Ecologist. To that end, I’ve installed a shiny new Feedburner RSS … Continue reading
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What we're reading
As we head into the weekend, here’s a few things we’ve noticed that might be worth your screen-time. In the journals Garud, N.R., Messer, P.W., Buzbas, E.O. & Petrov, D.A. Soft selective sweeps are the primary mode of recent adaptation … Continue reading
Molecular ecology views: Shenandoah butternuts
Sean Hoban, a postdoc at the Università di Ferrara, Italy, sends along these photos from his Ph.D. fieldwork on endangered butternut trees in beautiful Shenandoah National Park, USA. Many more pictures of Sean’s field work in forests across the eastern … Continue reading
Speciation with gene flow and the virtual beanbag: Genome-level effects increase divergence during ecological speciation, but linkage is not required
This post is a guest contribution by Dylan Goldade, Kathryn Theiss, and Chris Smith, from the Biology Department at Willamette University. See below for the coauthors’ afflilations and research interests. In a famous address given on the hundredth anniversary of the … Continue reading