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Tag Archives: Evolution
Conference catch-up: The many colors of snow
Red snow … watermelon snow … green snow … did you know that snow came in so many different colors? I had never heard of watermelon ice (#🍉❄) until a talk given by Robin Kodner from Western Washington University at … Continue reading
Posted in adaptation, bioinformatics, citizen science, community ecology, evolution, fieldwork, mating system, microbiology, natural history, phylogenetics, phylogeography, population genetics, selection, speciation, transcriptomics
Tagged biogeochemistry, Chlamydomonas nivalis, clonality, conference, ecology, Evolution, genetics, genomics, geoecology, life cycles, Snow algae, species, workshop
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Racing Against the Climate
Sarah Livett wrote this post as a final project for Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Introduction to Evolutionary Processes course at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Sarah was a 5th year MS student at UAB in Dr. Thane Wibbel‘s lab. She worked … Continue reading
Posted in adaptation, blogging, evolution, natural history, Science Communication, transcriptomics
Tagged climate change, Evolution, Hsps, scicomm, Science Communication, turtles
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Cricket Plays a Song of Systems Biology
Mina Momeni wrote this post as a final project for Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Science Communication course at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Mina earned her MS degree and is now a research technician at UAB in Dr. Nicole Riddle‘s lab. … Continue reading
To present data is human, to communicate data is divine
Finding new and engaging ways to communicate science is of paramount importance. But, how many opportunities are there to practice the art of communication? That’s how I began the lead-in piece for a series of student posts over a year … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, community, Science Communication, science publishing
Tagged Blogging, Evolution, scicomm, Science Communication, students, UAB
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Found in translation: The evolutionary history of RNA viruses in vertebrates
I have to admit, viruses aren’t normally my thing, but this is pretty darn cool. In a study out by Shi and colleagues this week, researchers identified 214 new viruses that, as the authors so succinctly state, reveal “diverse virus-host … Continue reading
Posted in bioinformatics, Coevolution, evolution, transcriptomics
Tagged Evolution, host evolution, RNA viruses
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Genomic signatures of ancient rendezvous and separation in elephant evolution
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
Posted in conservation, evolution, genomics, hybridization, natural history, Paleogenomics, phylogeography
Tagged admixture, ancient DNA, conservation, elephants, Evolution, gene flow, hybridization
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When less might be more: The evolution of reduced genomes
The advent of affordable genome sequencing has provided us with a wealth of data. Researchers have sequenced everything from Escherichia coli (4.6 Mbp genome size), to sea urchins (810 Mbp), chimpanzees (3.3 Gbp), and humans (3.2 Gbp). Then there are the … Continue reading
Posted in adaptation, Coevolution, evolution, genomics, microbiology, population genetics, selection
Tagged ecology, Evolution, genome streamlining, population genetics
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