Phylogenetics:
Guess what? Mastodons are closely related to elephants, and Dinosaurs cluster with birds, not other reptiles. That's the result in a new article in Science. Yeah, Science published the obvious.
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Posted on April 25, 2008 10:00 AM • 9 Comments
Will this little lab creature get renamed?
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Posted on April 22, 2008 9:00 AM • 8 Comments
Drosophila Are Not Fruit Flies Edition
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Posted on April 11, 2008 9:00 AM • 3 Comments
Drosophila melanogaster is not a member of the Drosophila genus?
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Posted on February 1, 2008 10:00 AM • 18 Comments
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...
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Posted on December 28, 2007 10:00 AM • 0 Comments
Introducing aldolase, a duplicated gene involved in metabolism.
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Posted on October 1, 2007 9:00 AM • 0 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
Remember when I said that the near future of eukaryotic genome sequence would involve sequencing EST libraries (collections of mRNA, or transcribed genes) rather than de novo sequencing of whole genomes? Well, I did, even if you don't remember....
Posted on September 2, 2007 10:00 AM • 4 Comments
On the diversity of plants.
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Posted on July 6, 2007 1:45 PM • 4 Comments
On the difference between divergence times and speciation times.
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Posted on April 27, 2007 11:30 AM • 0 Comments
Today's password is coevolution.
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Posted on April 13, 2007 10:00 AM • 0 Comments
Mammals did not rapidly radiate after the K/T boundary.
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Posted on March 30, 2007 9:00 AM • 7 Comments
New Terms in Phylogenetics
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Posted on March 16, 2007 9:00 AM • 3 Comments
The five nurses and one doctor (the Tripoli Six) accused of infecting hundreds of patients with HIV in Libya are awaiting the verdict of their trial, expected to be handed down on December 19. The second trial concluded on November...
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Posted on December 7, 2006 10:30 AM • 1 Comments
Are the evolutionary relationships between certain species impossible to determine. Some people are arguing that, no matter how much data we acquire, we will never know with a high level of confidence, how some groups of species evolved.
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Posted on December 1, 2006 3:00 PM • 1 Comments
Like a lot of evolutionary biologists not studying the root of the tree of life, I assumed the three domain hypothesis was fairly well supported by the research community. This model posits that the tree of life can be broken...
Posted on November 19, 2006 8:00 AM • 7 Comments
We talk about molecular population and evolutionary GENETICS and GENOMICS. You know, the caliper measurement of a gene's evolvability in moles.
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