Author Archives: Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

A race to the bottom with a new card from the coevolutionary deck

Posted on 29 Jan, 2016 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

I’m a sucker for a clever, amusing title, though I’ve recently read that amusing titles are cited less (see here). Alas, maybe a well placed metaphor can enliven a manuscript and also not get lost in a citation-less abyss? In basic … Continue reading →

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Macroalgal miscellany

Posted on 22 Jan, 2016 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

It’s been a jam-packed week and I’ve found myself at Friday. Grandiose plans for a post continuing the series on clonality (see here and here) did not come to fruition. But, I was saved with a new article that tumbled … Continue reading →

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An evolutionary cycle …

Posted on 15 Jan, 2016 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

Rescan, Lenormand and Roze (2016) recently published new models on the evolution of life cycles in The American Naturalist. Most animals and protists have diploid life cycles in which the haploid stage is reduced to a single-celled gamete. Other organisms, such … Continue reading →

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Lonesome George, no longer?

Posted on 18 Dec, 2015 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

Galapagos tortoises summon up images of great, lumbering beasts on idyllic islands that planted the seeds of natural selection in the young naturalist, Charles Darwin. In a recent paper, Poulakakis et al. (2015) provide genetic evidence of two lineages of tortoises … Continue reading →

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Gracilaria , currywurst and aebleskivers

Posted on 14 Dec, 2015 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

Another travelogue for a Monday afternoon! Our first official European stop on the Gracilaria vermiculophylla tour was in Germany and Denmark hosted by a colleague without whom we wouldn’t have been able to embark on this adventure! I first met Florian Weinberger … Continue reading →

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An Oedipus complex in mosses?

Posted on 11 Dec, 2015 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

Nannandrous … phyllodioicous … gotta love botanical terms and these will most definitely find their way into this week’s list of favorite words! Both refer to the tiny epiphytic nature of males situated on much larger female shoots. There may be many … Continue reading →

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Pre-adapted algal ancestors colonized land

Posted on 7 Dec, 2015 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

The colonization of land by plants 450 Mya marked a major transition on Earth and was one of the critical events that led to the emergence of extant terrestrial ecosystems. Chief among the challenges the terrestrial environment presented for these … Continue reading →

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Best laid plans of algae and academics oft go astray

Posted on 4 Dec, 2015 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

When you’re stuck in R and feel some procrastination is in order … write another travelogue post! I’ve wanted to spin some yarns about field mishaps. There’s no way we could sample over 45 sites without something going wrong. For our Northeast … Continue reading →

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The scent of home

Posted on 3 Dec, 2015 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

We decided to divide and conquere the west coast of North America in search of more populations of Gracilaria vermiculophylla, as if we didn’t already have enough by Midsummer’s Eve! I headed to my home state – California. I was able to sneak … Continue reading →

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Bees brought to their knees

Posted on 27 Nov, 2015 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

As regular readers of TME will have read, this past summer was a whirlwind of sampling in which I took the briefest of holidays in the Southwest of England before attending the European Phycological Congress (read about the congress here and here). … Continue reading →

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