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side_view_toon_small.JPG 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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Molecular Evolution:

Deborah Charlesworth on Lynch's Origin of Genome Architecture

She's more critical than Brian.

El Chupacabra de Barcelona

No me gusta manana de Sabado. Pero, quien quiere "meet-up" conmigo?

Evidence that Men Think With Their Junk

Us dudes are always accused of thinking with our dicks. Perhaps it's because the genes expressed in our brains are similar to those expressed in our 'nads: Among the 17 tissues, the highest similarity in gene expression patterns was between...

Judson on Junk and Genome Size

What are genomic fossils?

How Easy is it to Write About Junk DNA?

A bunch of haters getting it all wrong.

Geese, Ganders, and Genomes

Sex-biased genes and sex chromosomes.

Make that 12 Drosophila Genomes

The 12 Drosophila Genomes Project papers are trickling out.

Publishing Original Research on Blogs - Part 6

Using the evolutionary relationships of Drosophila, mosquitoes, and honeybees to study the duplication of a gene.

Publishing Original Research on Blogs - Part 2

Introducing aldolase, a duplicated gene involved in metabolism.

Publishing Original Research on Blogs - Part 1

This is a repost (with some edits) of an introduction to publishing original research on blogs -- a series I am reintroducing. The original entry can be found here. In April of last year, Bora pushed the idea of publishing...

Multicellular Eukaryotic Genomes are Teh Suck

The human genome is one big, bloated motherfucker. It's almost all non-protein-coding DNA. The same is true for many other eukaryotic genomes. Sure, some of it has a function. But a whole lot of it is just junk.

Publishing Original Research on Blogs -- Revisited

Over a year ago I threatened to perform some original research and publish it on my blog. I got as far as writing an introduction to the project, but I never actually posted any data. Well, the project is back!

Is there anything Copy Number Variation cannot do?

Carl Zimmer has a post covering three recent papers on gene duplication: one on amylase variation in humans, one on whole genome duplication in yeast, and one on duplications of genes in the Drosophila arizonae reproductive tract. In all three...

Family Values

When one family is not equivalent to another family -- spiders, humans, and kangaroos

Promoting Intelligence

More about brain genes, with King and Wilson in mind.

Genomfart

Are there still panselectionists?

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