Category Archives: adaptation

People behind the Science: Dr. Pleuni Pennings

Posted on 21 Jan, 2014 by John Stanton-Geddes

For the first Molecular Ecologist Q&A feature of 2014, I’m excited to present Dr. Pleuni Pennings. Dr. Pennings is a postdoc with Dmitri Petrov at Standord University, where she’s studying the evolution of drug resistance in HIV. In addition to … Continue reading →

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Molecular ecology views: Metapopulation dynamics from lab flasks to tidal pools

Posted on 22 Oct, 2013 by Jeremy Yoder

Our co-blogger Peter Fields is joining the lab of Dieter Ebert at the University of Basel this fall, and he sent along these photos of the Ebert group’s long-term work on the metapopulation dynamics of parasite infection in Daphina water … Continue reading →

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Random drift and phenotypic evolution

Posted on 15 Oct, 2013 by peterfields

This week we have a guest post from Markku Karhunen. Markku’s research at the University of Helsinki included the development and implementation of a number of very interesting and useful population genetics methods. In his guest post Markku discusses these … Continue reading →

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Domesticated genes gone wild

Posted on 14 Aug, 2013 by Jeremy Yoder

Artificial selection of domesticated plants and animals has been cited as a test case for natural selection since Charles Darwin first conceived the latter concept. But we generally consider that these two forms of selection operate to very different ends—that … Continue reading →

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