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What we're reading: Species delimitation failure, the twisty history of a retrovirus, and breeding a better tomato

In the journals Carstens, B. C., T. a Pelletier, N. M. Reid, and J. D. Satler. 2013. How to fail at species delimitation. Molecular Ecology 22:4369–4383. doi: 10.1111/mec.12413. … in most contexts it is better to fail to delimit species … Continue reading

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What we're reading: Rams' horns, beetles' testes, the rules of CC-BY reuse, and "Gatcaatgaggtgga …"

In the journals Johnston SE, J Gratten, C Berenos, JG Pilkington, TH Clutton-Brock, JM Pemberton, and J Slate. 2013. Life history trade-offs at a single locus maintain sexually selected genetic variation. Nature doi: 10.1038/nature12489. We found that an allele conferring … Continue reading

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What we're reading: Adaptive introgression reviewed, overdominance and heterozygosity, and predatory re-publication of CC-BY articles

In the journals Hedrick, PW. 2013. Adaptive introgression in animals: examples and comparison to new mutation and standing variation as sources of adaptive variation. Molecular Ecology doi: 10.1111/mec.12415. … potential examples of adaptive introgression in animals, including balancing selection for … Continue reading

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What we're reading: Genomes from museum specimens, adaptive polyploidy, and "crowdsourced" fertility planning

In the journals Staats, M., R. H. J. Erkens, B. van de Vossenberg, J. J. Wieringa, K. Kraaijeveld, B. Stielow, J. Geml, J. E. Richardson, and F. T. Bakker. 2013. Genomic treasure troves: Complete genome sequencing of herbarium and insect … Continue reading

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What we're reading: mutational bias, local adaptation, insecticide resistance, and CC-BY licensing

In the journals Berg, J. J., and G. Coop. 2013. The population genetic signature of polygenic local adaptation. arXiv: 1307.7759v1. See also Haldane’s Sieve. We exploit the fact that GWAS provide an estimate of the additive effect size of many … Continue reading

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What we're reading: Protease-enforced mutualistic exclusivity, predicting complex traits from SNPs, and keeping up with your scientific reading

In the journals Orona-Tamayo D., Wielsch N., Blanco-Labra A., Svatos A., Farías-Rodríguez R., Heil M., 2013 Exclusive rewards in mutualisms: ant proteases and plant protease inhibitors create a lock-key system to protect Acacia food bodies from exploitation. Molecular Ecology 22: … Continue reading

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What we're reading: Genetic diversity at the range edge, symbiote-mediated host shifting, and the T-rex nontroversy

In the journals Assis J., Castilho Coelho N., Alberto F., Valero M., Raimondi P., Reed D., Alvares Serrão E., 2013 High and distinct range-edge genetic diversity despite local bottlenecks (SJ Goldstien, Ed.). PLoS ONE 8: e68646. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068646. As predicted, … Continue reading

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What we're reading: Invasion genetics, and New Zealand's cutest invader

Peter, B.M., and M. Slatkin. 2013. Detecting range expansions from genetic data. Evolution online early. doi: 10.1111/evo.12202. We introduce a statistic ψ (the directionality index) that detects asymmetries in the two-dimensional allele frequency spectrum of pairs of population. These asymmetries … Continue reading

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What we're reading: Selective sweeps in HIV, and rates of molecular evolution in big plants

In the journals Leviyang S., 2013  Computational inference methods for selective sweeps arising in acute HIV infection. Genetics 194: 737–752. doi: 10.1534/genetics.113.150862. HIV escape from CTL [cytotoxic T-lymphocyte] response forms a complex, selective sweep that is difficult to analyze. In … Continue reading

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What we're reading: Hyperlocal gene flow, SCOTUS decision on gene patents, and the mother of all microsatellite datasets

In the journals Pemberton, T.J., Degiorgio, M. & Rosenberg, N. a. 2013. Population structure in a comprehensive genomic data set on human microsatellite variation. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 3: 891–907. doi: 10.1534/g3.113.005728. Here, we combine eight human population-genetic data sets … Continue reading

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