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Category Archives: genomics
The genomic & physiological basis of high altitude adaptation in North American deer mice
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
Molecular ecology highlights at the American Naturalist 2020 meeting
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
Posted in community, conferences, evolution, genomics
Tagged American Society of Naturalists
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Genomic data reveal links between demography and adaptation in experimental host-virus coevolution
Posted in adaptation, Coevolution, ecology, evolution, genomics
Tagged Chlorella, ecological release, virus
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Hybridization in the depths of the last glacial period created a world-conquering clover
Plants’ flexibility with the structure of their genome — able to cope with proliferating transposons, whole-genome duplications, or even acquisition of complete sets of chromosomes from another species — is a big source of evolutionary novelty. Duplication of a single gene … Continue reading
Posted in adaptation, evolution, genomics, hybridization, speciation
Tagged Trifolium repens
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Move or adapt to changing climate? These chipmunks have had to do both
Climate change threatens to land many, many species in conditions for which they’re not adapted — too warm, too dry, too stormy, too flood-prone — and traditionally the ways that living things might respond to this are framed as a … Continue reading
Where credit is due
I am trying to keep this short. You might remember my recent blog post on data sharing. I basically wanted to point out that data acquisition can be an art on its own. It can take months of planning, applying … Continue reading
Posted in bioinformatics, career, community, data archiving, genomics, science publishing
Tagged authorship, co-author, public database
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Towards unrestricted use of public genomic data
Last week, a friend sent me this policy forum article published in Science. Fifty co-authors, mostly tenured and from prestigious universities, some of them among my dearest idols, have written this piece to call for publicly available genome data. What … Continue reading
Posted in career, community, data archiving, genomics, science publishing
Tagged career, genomics, open science
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Is taxonomy still relevant to innovative science?
Elise Keister wrote this post as a final project for Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Conservation Genetics course at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Elise studies the impact of climate change on corals as a PhD student in Dr. Dustin Kemp’s lab. Elise … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, ecology, evolution, genomics, phylogenetics
Tagged Blogging, coral, Science Communication, symbiodinium, UAB
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