Category Archives: evolution

FISHing for molecules, a link between form and function in animal–bacteria symbioses

Posted on 15 Mar, 2020 by Laetitia Wilkins

I am posting a blog post that was written by Benedikt Geier, a Ph.D. candidate who just handed in his Ph.D. thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany. In my eyes, these last couple of … Continue reading →

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#StudentSciComm

Posted on 13 Mar, 2020 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

I just submitted my four year review and in so doing listed out the students that had published blogs on The Molecular Ecologist. Seventeen students have not only received course credit, but also have a non-peer reviewed publication on their … Continue reading →

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Revenge of the sex chromosomes

Posted on 10 Mar, 2020 by Jeremy Yoder
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How to handle the burden of deleterious mutations

Posted on 4 Mar, 2020 by Patrícia Chrzanová Pečnerová

With the increasingly pressing matter of populations being threatened by fragmentation and isolation, and with progressively more efficient sequencing technologies and analytical tools at hand, conservation genetics is starting to turn the spotlight on the topic of genetic load. It … Continue reading →

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The brief history of African Americans in Evolutionary Biology, and why that is the case.

Posted on 17 Feb, 2020 by R Shawn Abrahams

Update, 11 June 2020: This post has been edited to clarify attributions. I remember the first day I met a Black faculty member in evolutionary biology. I had just finished my first year of graduate school and was attending the Workshop … Continue reading →

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The world through the senses of a pangolin

Posted on 14 Feb, 2020 by Patrícia Chrzanová Pečnerová

This Saturday, February 15, is World Pangolin Day, and thus it is a good time to do some PR for these fascinating animals. Continue reading →

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Microbial mutualists parted ways with this host plant — multiple times

Posted on 6 Feb, 2020 by Jeremy Yoder
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The genomic & physiological basis of high altitude adaptation in North American deer mice

Posted on 31 Jan, 2020 by Kathleen Grogan

In biology, there are many ways to solve evolutionary ‘challenges’ so it always amazes me when organisms solve them in similar ways. And I love a good paper that adds to our attempts to dissect multi-trait adaptations. Recently, Schweizer et … Continue reading →

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Molecular ecology highlights at the American Naturalist 2020 meeting

Posted on 15 Jan, 2020 by Jeremy Yoder

Even-numbered years are distinguished by Olympic Games (summer or winter), U.S. Congressional elections, and the American Society of Naturalists biennial meeting at Asilomar, a retreat center embedded in a California state park near the northern tip of the Monterey Peninsula. … Continue reading →

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Genomic data reveal links between demography and adaptation in experimental host-virus coevolution

Posted on 25 Nov, 2019 by Jeremy Yoder
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