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Category Archives: Coevolution
Notes from Asilomar, 2025
Driving up to Monterey from southern California is lovely enough to make me almost enjoy driving. Highway 1, just two lanes of traffic right at the edge of the continent, pays for its clifftop views of the Pacific with frequent … Continue reading
Posted in Coevolution, community, conferences, genomics, natural history
Tagged American Society of Naturalists, Asilomar
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Don’t ask “When is it coevolution?” — ask “How is it coevolution?”
Ask me to pick a single word that describes what I study, and I’ll typically say “coevolution.” This is probably true of most evolutionary biologists who study interactions between species — plants and pollinators, hosts and symbionts, predators and prey, et … Continue reading
Posted in adaptation, Coevolution, ecology, evolution, mini-review
Tagged disease ecology, herbivory, mutualism, natural selection, parasitism, symbiosis
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The key to a productive ecosystem may be plant neighbors’ chemistry
One of the grand patterns across the diversity of flowering plants is that major groups of species are deeply united by shared chemistry, especially “secondary” biochemical products that don’t directly contribute to processes like photosynthesis, growth, and reproduction. Secondary compounds … Continue reading
Posted in Coevolution, community ecology, ecology, phylogenetics
Tagged plant chemistry, plants
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Recent reading: 18 Feb 2022
Fieldwork in the spring is always a bit tricky, but I’ve fortunately been able to put my teaching commitment aside for a week to help plant Joshua tree seedlings in an ongoing experiment in climate adaptation. It was a scramble … Continue reading
Posted in adaptation, climate change, Coevolution, ecology, evolution, journal club
Tagged adaptationism, Antonovics, host range
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How butterflies match their wings
The following is a guest post by Ornob Alam, a graduate student in Michael Purugganan’s lab at New York University. Ornob’s PhD projects examine the demographic and evolutionary history of domesticated Asian rice in the context of past climate change … Continue reading
Hosts select symbionts for greater mutual benefit, an evolutionary experiment shows
Who’s in charge of a symbiotic mutualism? You might think the host organism, whose body is the venue for an exchange of nutrients or services with a microbial symbiont, is running the show, able to evict or punish symbionts that … Continue reading
Posted in adaptation, Coevolution, evolution, microbiology
Tagged Ensifer meliloti, Medicago truncatula, mutualism
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Down (Under) The Rabbit Hole
Maybe it’s a wild guess, but most of us have probably learned a little more about viruses lately than we thought we ever would. Little did I know, before this article, that I’d also learn quite a bit about a … Continue reading
Where Did This Flower Come From?
Sam Gregory wrote this post as a project for Dr. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Scientific Communication course at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Sam earned a BS in biology and BFA in studio art from Birmingham-Southern College, and is currently pursuing an MS in … Continue reading
Posted in adaptation, bioinformatics, blogging, Coevolution, demography, ecology, evolution, phylogeography, plants, Science Communication
Tagged genetics, Invasions, plants, StudentSciComm
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Everything About Ant Reproductive Biology is Bizarre
Sam Gregory wrote this post as a project for Dr. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Scientific Communication course at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Sam earned a BS in biology and BFA in studio art from Birmingham-Southern College, and is currently pursuing an … Continue reading
Posted in bioinformatics, blogging, Coevolution, ecology, evolution, insects, Science Communication
Tagged ants, Blogging, EO Wilson, scicomm, student
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