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Author Archives: Rob Denton
The current people and future content of TME
The crowdfunding campaign to support this blog has reached the first goal: maintaining the basic infrastructure that keeps the lights on. Woohoo! The next goal? Supporting the people who work hard to bring you interesting content. Who are we? We are researchers, … Continue reading
Finding hidden structure in uneven data
If you are a population geneticist, your work might include sampling a bunch of individuals and figuring out who is related to who. Seems simple right? Before you can ask questions about differences or similarities between groups, you have to understand what … Continue reading
How to build a mimic
The history of evolutionary and ecological studies on mimic species is deep and chock-full of familiar names (Bates, Darwin, Muller, Wallace are just a few). There has also been no limit on the number of jaw-droppingly gorgeous species that have been under … Continue reading
Top three of 2015 – Rob Denton
We had a great 2015 at The Molecular Ecologist. The blog’s contributors provided more than 200 posts last year. Maybe you’ve read a few or maybe you’ve read them all. Either way, things are getting even better in 2016. As … Continue reading
The biggest problem in landscape genetics and how to fix it
Landscape genetics is a field that has expanded rapidly in recent years, but that doesn’t mean that it hasn’t gone without criticism. Perhaps the largest problem with landscape genetics (LG) studies is one of timing. If you observe genetic differentiation … Continue reading
Posted in methods, Molecular Ecology, the journal, population genetics
Tagged landscape genetics, review
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Isolation by Aesop's Fable in NYC mice
The story goes like this: Town Mouse goes to visit his friend in the country. Town Mouse looks down his long nose at the food offered by Country Mouse, so he brings Country Mouse back to the city for a … Continue reading
Large predators, large data, large conservation issues
We are a diverse group here at The Molecular Ecologist. Melissa writes love letters to sponges. Stacy takes you on exotic kelp road trips. Arun gives you another excuse to spend the afternoon playing with R. I feel that it is … Continue reading
Posted in conservation, Molecular Ecology, the journal, pedigree
Tagged bears, dingoes, effective population size, hybridization
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On getting empirical with the obvious
I’ve been thinking lately about the value in doing “simple” things. As a PhD student, my time is constantly incentivised by productivity (what am I doing right now that is working towards a publication?). But that doesn’t jive well with … Continue reading
Posted in population genetics, theory, Uncategorized
Tagged Daphnia, drift, population size
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Bigger, badder males drive unbalanced genetic introgression in wall lizards
Female mate choice is one of the major barriers to hybridization. But even when hybridization does happen, females are often identified as the primary drivers of how phenotypes move through a hybrid zone. A new paper appearing in Ecology Letters … Continue reading
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