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What we're reading: Ancestral haplotype identification, narcolepsy and influenza, and phony baloney in the supplement aisle
In the journals Brandvain, Y., T. Slotte, K. M. Hazzouri, S. I. Wright, and G. Coop. 2013. Genomic identification of founding haplotypes reveals the history of the selfing species Capsella rubella. PLoS Genet. 9:e1003754. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003754. Due to the recency … Continue reading
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What we're reading: Mating advantages for rare males in guppies, a new species of dolphin in Australian waters, and DNA sequencers on Mars
In the journals Hughes, K. A., A. E. Houde, A. C. Price, and F. H. Rodd. 2013. Mating advantage for rare males in wild guppy populations. Nature. doi: 10.1038/nature12717. Hereweuse highly replicatedexperimentalmanipulationsofnatural populations to showthatmales with rare colour patternshave higher … Continue reading
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What we're reading: Frequency-dependent selection on mitochondria, divergence versus admixture mapping, and the PubMed Commons
In the journals E Kazancıoğlu, Arnqvist G. 2013. The maintenance of mitochondrial genetic variation by negative frequency-dependent selection. Ecology Letters. doi: 10.1111/ele.12195. We assessed the change in mitochondrial haplotype frequencies over 10 generations of experimental evolution in 180 seed beetle … Continue reading
What we're reading: Adaptive genetics of pines, population structure of rats in the city, and the fallout
In the journals Eckert AJ, JL Wegrzyn, JD Liechty, JM Lee, WP Cumbie, JM Davis, B Goldfarb, CA Loopstra, SR Palle, T Quesada, CH Langley and DB Neale. 2013. The evolutionary genetics of the genes underlying phenotypic associations for loblolly … Continue reading
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What we're reading: The predictive power of NSF grant reviewers, the peer-review sting, and more shutdown science
In the journals Goodman BA, L Schwarzkopf, & AK Krockenberger. 2013. Phenotypic integration in response to incubation environment adaptively influences habitat choice in a tropical lizard. The American Naturalist, 182(5): 666-73. doi: 10.1086/673299. Using a split-clutch design, we incubated eggs … Continue reading
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What we're reading: A new review of landscape genetics, science in the shutdown, and how to not be That Dude.
In the journals Petren, K. 2013. The evolution of landscape genetics. Evolution. doi: 10.1111/evo.12278. Evolutionary landscape genetics is the study of how migration and population structure affects evolutionary processes. As a field it dates back to Sewall Wright and the … Continue reading
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What we're reading: GWAS hits lost in translation, the mutational load of range expansions, and killing the comments section to save science
In the journals Carlson, C. S., Matise, T. C., North, K. E., Haiman, C. a., Fesinmeyer, M. D., Buyske, S., … Kooperberg, C. L. (2013). Generalization and dilution of association results from European GWAS in populations of non-European ancestry: The … Continue reading
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What we're reading: The tiger genome, pooled sequencing for population genomics, and more fretting about academic careers
In the journals Cho YS et al. 2013. The tiger genome and comparative analysis with lion and snow leopard genomes. Nature Communications 4:2433. doi: 10.1038/ncomms3433. Through comparative genetic analyses of these genomes, we find genetic signatures that may reflect molecular … Continue reading
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What we're reading: Next-generation admixture estimates, mutation rates shaped by epidemiology, and whatever happened to that data?
In the journals Skotte L, TS Korneliussen, and A Albrechtsen. 2013. Estimating individual admixture proportions from next generation sequencing data. Genetics doi: 10.1534/genetics.113.154138. This paper presents a new method for inferring individ- ual’s ancestry that takes the uncertainty introduced in … Continue reading
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What we're reading: Compressed genomes, drafting genes, and the third post-publication peer reviewer
In the journals Deorowicz, S., A. Danek, and S. Grabowski. 2013. Genome compression: A novel approach for large collections. Bioinformatics 1–7. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt460. More precisely, our novel Ziv-Lempel-style compression algorithm squeezes a single human genome to ~400KB. The key to … Continue reading
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