December 30, 2007
Accelerated Evolution -- yet again
Category: Population Genetics
Can positive selection drown out neutral evolution?
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AT THE CONVERGENCE OF EVOLUTION AND GENETICS
We talk about molecular population and evolutionary GENETICS and GENOMICS. You know, the caliper measurement of a gene's evolvability in moles.
Eschewing obfuscation ever since Morgan.
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December 30, 2007
Category: Population Genetics
Can positive selection drown out neutral evolution?
Posted by RPM at 10:00 AM • 7 Comments
December 28, 2007
Category: Drosophila • Phylogenetics
Historical Inaccuracy Edition A lot of us who work in well established biological systems take for granted how those systems were first discovered or established. Sometimes this involves the choice by an individual to begin studying development using a small...
Posted by RPM at 10:00 AM • 0 Comments
December 21, 2007
Category: Evolution • Population Genetics • Science News
The population genetics of neutral mutations and beneficial mutations.
Posted by RPM at 6:15 PM • 6 Comments
December 14, 2007
Category: Population Genetics
For those of you interested in recent adaptive evolution in some insignificant bipedal primate, John Hawks and pals have published a paper in PNAS describing something you'll find interesting.
Posted by RPM at 8:00 AM • 11 Comments
December 10, 2007
Category: Science Policy
A Call for a Presidential Debate on Science and Technology
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December 9, 2007
Category: Academia • Biology • Science Policy
NIH funding versus NSF funding.
Posted by RPM at 12:00 PM • 7 Comments
December 5, 2007
Category: Genetics • Genomics • Science News
A cool search tool and some good genetics blogging.
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December 4, 2007
Category: Drosophila • Evolution • Genomics • Molecular Evolution • Population Genetics
Sex-biased genes and sex chromosomes.
Posted by RPM at 8:00 AM • 5 Comments
December 3, 2007
Category: Ask A ScienceBlogger • Biology • Evolution • Genetics
Not all animals must have sex with another individual to produce perfectly viable offspring. And neither do humans, thanks to technological breakthroughs in artificial insemination. But what about those critters that do not require masturbation and meat basters to...
Posted by RPM at 9:00 AM • 9 Comments
December 2, 2007
Category: Academia • Open Access
BioMed Central, The Open Access Publisher, produces paid access content.
Posted by RPM at 10:00 AM • 7 Comments
