Category Archives: conservation

It’s all because of the holobiont

Posted on 16 July, 2019 by Laetitia Wilkins

It’s conference season at the Molecular Ecologist. I went for the first time to a Gordon Research Conference (GRC). GRCs @GordonConf are well known for their efforts to foster an informal and inclusive atmosphere where frontier research in the biological, … Continue reading →

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The state of coral: A mini-review

Posted on 4 June, 2019 by Katharine Coykendall

Coral reefs are one of the main harbingers of the climate crisis.  As such, there have been numerous studies, TED talks, Blue Planet episodes, podcasts, et cetera, about the state of corals. I’ve condensed a select few research findings for … Continue reading →

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Bigger bees bumble by barriers, end up with lower population genetic differentiation

Posted on 16 May, 2019 by Jeremy Yoder
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A Highlight of Molecular Ecology outside of Academia

Posted on 21 December, 2018 by Katharine Coykendall

I’ve recently made a career change. Actually, I’m not even sure whether to call it that, or the next step of a natural, if meandering progression of a scientist not on the academic career path. Even though I see more and … Continue reading →

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Earth BioGenome: The launch of biology’s moonshot

Posted on 7 December, 2018 by Alex Twyford

The Earth BioGenome Project aims to sequence all currently described ~1.5 million eukaryotic species on earth (Lewin et al., 2018; Figure 1). The scale and scope are enormous, and it is hard to imagine a more ambitious but exciting goal. … Continue reading →

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How island foxes are living on the edge

Posted on 23 November, 2018 by Patrícia Chrzanová Pečnerová

Back in 2016, Robinson et al. (2016) published a genomic analyses of the Channel Island foxes and they showed that despite extremely low genome-wide diversity, the island foxes do not seem to be suffering from inbreeding depression. Read the post … Continue reading →

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Genomic signatures of ancient rendezvous and separation in elephant evolution

Posted on 5 March, 2018 by Patrícia Chrzanová Pečnerová

Evidence from various levels of the tree of life is showing that we’ve been picturing ancient encounters between related species all wrong and admixture events are probably more common than expected. Even rendezvous among primates, caniforms, and majestic proboscideans often … Continue reading →

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Climate change and genomic vulnerability

Posted on 8 January, 2018 by Ethan Linck

As the world burns and we barrel heedlessly into an ever-smaller and uglier future, predicting how species will respond to climate change will be critical for conservation planning. Intuition suggests most organisms will shift their ranges up in latitude or … Continue reading →

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Experimental harvesting reduces gene expression variation

Posted on 10 August, 2017 by Reid Brennan

Human activities represent unique selective pressures for natural populations. This is especially true for fish species where we routinely harvest individuals from the wild, i.e., through fishing. It has been recognized for some time that overfishing can result in population … Continue reading →

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#Evol2017 catch-up — or remember that time when someone stole your field gear?

Posted on 12 July, 2017 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

To borrow from our lead in paragraph for post-Evol2017 wrap-ups: Two weeks after the closing day of the 2017 Evolution Meetings, the Molecular Ecologists have all dispersed from Portland, though items from the Krueger-Hadfield lab didn’t make the return journey! Still, the conference … Continue reading →

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