Tag Archives: genomics

Sparrows and spiders and aggression, oh my!

Posted on 11 Sep, 2020 by Kathleen Grogan

One of the major goals of evolutionary biology is to link phenotypic variation with specific genetic variation, yet for behavioral phenotypes in non-model species, this task remains daunting and generally elusive. Although behaviors are heritable and clearly acted upon by … Continue reading →

Posted in association genetics, birds, insects, next generation sequencing, RNAseq | Tagged aggression, genomics, genotype-phenotype links, spider, White-throated Sparrows | Leave a comment

It’s the city life for me… or maybe not.

Posted on 29 May, 2020 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

Michael Fitch wrote this post as part of Dr. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Evolution course at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He completed a B.S. in Biology from the UAB and is currently considering entering the Master’s program. Current interests… all over … Continue reading →

Posted in bioinformatics, blogging, community ecology, comparative phylogeography, conservation, ecology, evolution, genomics, mammals, population genetics, Science Communication | Tagged Blogging, cats, ecology, Evolution, genomics, GIS, scicomm, StudentSciComm | Leave a comment

Asteroids and Pandemics

Posted on 27 Apr, 2020 by Katharine Coykendall

For whatever reason, viral disease and pandemics have been on my mind, so it’s no surprise that a recent paper in Molecular Ecology caught my attention. It blends the existential dread of global pandemics with the increasing panic concerning the … Continue reading →

Posted in conservation, ecology, genomics, transcriptomics | Tagged genomics, marine disease, marine ecology, marine invertebrates, sea star wasting disease, thermal stress | Leave a comment

Inbreeding and the cougar genome

Posted on 21 Feb, 2020 by Kathleen Grogan

This week, some of my favorite #scicomm games on Twitter are teaming up with March Mammal Madness to reveal this year’s #2020MMM contestants in my favorite “battle of the fittest.” Specifically, today (2/21/2020) at 12:30 pm EST, Dr. Michelle LaRue … Continue reading →

Posted in conservation, genomics, mammals | Tagged cats, conservation genetics, genome, genomics, mammals | Leave a comment

What next for DNA barcoding?

Posted on 25 Jul, 2019 by Alex Twyford

I’m a late adopter of DNA barcoding. As a botanist it has often felt that DNA barcoding wasn’t really for me. Unlike in animals, where the mitochondrial gene CO1 often tracks species boundaries, in plants, there is rarely an exact … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged DNA barcoding, genomics, metabarcoding, species delimitation | 1 Comment

Towards unrestricted use of public genomic data

Posted on 3 Feb, 2019 by Laetitia Wilkins

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 | 1 Comment

Symbiotic organs shaped by distinct modes of genome evolution in cephalopods

Posted on 12 Jan, 2019 by Laetitia Wilkins

Last week I was whining about gaps in our understanding of evolutionary processes in the ocean. The universe heard me, and today I am satisfied to write about the published genome of Euprymna scolopes – the Hawaiian bobtail squid and … Continue reading →

Posted in Coevolution, evolution, genomics, microbiology, next generation sequencing, Symbiosis | Tagged Evolution, genomics, Squid, symbiosis, transcriptomics | 1 Comment

Conference catch-up: The many colors of snow

Posted on 3 Dec, 2018 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

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 | Leave a comment

Microbiomes of a small conference

Posted on 23 Sep, 2018 by Laetitia Wilkins

The conference season is almost over. There are still a few gems out there worth attending before school starts. I just came back from the Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomics Conference which took place at a UCLA resort in the mountains. … Continue reading →

Posted in blogging, career, community, conferences, evolution, genomics | Tagged conference, ecological genomics, Evolution, genomics, metagenomics, microbiome, social media | Leave a comment

Major new microbial groups expand diversity and alter our understanding of the tree of life

Posted on 18 Mar, 2018 by Laetitia Wilkins

I still believe in revolutions. And sometimes they just happen, almost unnoticed. One such revolution happened on a boring 11th of April 2016 when Laura Hug et al. published their new tree of life in the journal of Nature Microbiology. … Continue reading →

Posted in bioinformatics, community ecology, evolution, genomics, metagenomics, microbiology, next generation sequencing, phylogenetics | Tagged assembly, bioinformatics, Evolution, genome, genomics, metagenomics, NGS, phylogenetics | 1 Comment