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Tag Archives: invasion
Dōmo arigatō
Along with my collaborators, Erik Sotka, Courtney Murren, Allan Strand and our battery of students, we have embarked on an intense summer field season. Erik and I are leading the effort of sampling populations of the introduced red seaweed Gracilaria … Continue reading
Posted in adaptation, blogging, community, evolution, haploid-diploid, natural history
Tagged collaboration, Gracilaria, invasion, Japan, photos, seaweed, travel
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A cladoceran invasion
My posts are about to take on a strong bias towards field work and interviews with the researchers kind enough to offer assistance to our lab as we embark on a Northern Hemisphere tour. Not only will we be sampling seaweeds … Continue reading
Posted in population genetics
Tagged Daphnia, invasion, Japan, microsatellites, mtDNA
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Easy as ABC
Determining the whens and hows of biological invasions using genetic data is a major goal of molecular ecology. One such tool is approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) which is being used for inferring invasion histories. In a new paper in Heredity, Benazzo et … Continue reading
Posted in evolution, methods, population genetics
Tagged ABC, invasion, microsatellites
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When genomes duplicate
Whole genome duplication events have played an important role in the evolutionary history of plants. Vallejo-Marín et al. (2015) describe origins of a new polyploid species, Mimulus peregrines, found on the Scottish mainland as well as the Orkney Islands. It was formed within … Continue reading
Posted in bioinformatics, evolution, genomics, natural history, plants
Tagged genomics, invasion, polyploids
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