Molecular Evolution:
She's more critical than Brian.
Posted on April 23, 2008 10:30 AM • 5 Comments
No me gusta manana de Sabado. Pero, quien quiere "meet-up" conmigo?
Posted on April 14, 2008 10:00 AM • 5 Comments
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...
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Posted on April 8, 2008 3:00 PM • 3 Comments
What are genomic fossils?
Posted on March 6, 2008 12:00 PM • 2 Comments
A bunch of haters getting it all wrong.
Posted on January 16, 2008 9:00 AM • 13 Comments
Sex-biased genes and sex chromosomes.
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Posted on December 4, 2007 8:00 AM • 5 Comments
The 12 Drosophila Genomes Project papers are trickling out.
Posted on November 7, 2007 2:30 PM • 1 Comments
Using the evolutionary relationships of Drosophila, mosquitoes, and honeybees to study the duplication of a gene.
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Posted on October 16, 2007 8:00 AM • 1 Comments
Introducing aldolase, a duplicated gene involved in metabolism.
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Posted on October 1, 2007 9:00 AM • 0 Comments
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...
Posted on September 28, 2007 10:00 AM • 1 Comments
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.
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Posted on September 26, 2007 2:00 PM • 2 Comments
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!
Posted on September 26, 2007 11:00 AM • 9 Comments
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...
Posted on September 16, 2007 10:00 AM • 1 Comments
When one family is not equivalent to another family -- spiders, humans, and kangaroos
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Posted on September 14, 2007 11:00 AM • 6 Comments
More about brain genes, with King and Wilson in mind.
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Posted on September 3, 2007 11:00 AM • 1 Comments
Are there still panselectionists?
Posted on September 2, 2007 2:00 PM • 5 Comments