Speciation:
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
Structural polymorphisms, speciation, and detecting natural selection.
Posted on July 8, 2007 10:00 AM • 0 Comments
Hybrid speciation, hybrid zones, and reproductive isolation.
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Posted on May 25, 2007 1:45 PM • 0 Comments
The Journal of Heredity Special Issue
Posted on April 27, 2007 1:00 PM • 0 Comments
On the difference between divergence times and speciation times.
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Posted on April 27, 2007 11:30 AM • 0 Comments
A new study presents evidence against hybrid speciation in Heliconius butterflies.
Posted on April 5, 2007 8:30 AM • 1 Comments
On the role of natural selection and genome rearrangements in the evolution of reproductive isolation between populations.
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Posted on February 5, 2007 3:00 PM • 8 Comments
Neither of which have an appropriate definition.
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Posted on January 30, 2007 2:00 PM • 5 Comments
Wilkins has replied to my post on species concepts.
Posted on January 24, 2007 9:00 AM • 5 Comments
Because I haven't riled up Wilkins in a while.
Posted on January 23, 2007 9:00 AM • 9 Comments
A speciation mechanism previously thought to be uncommon in animals has been getting some attention recently. The mechanisms responsible for hybrid speciation are discussed in relation to some recent findings.
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Posted on December 4, 2006 12:00 PM • 7 Comments
Nature Reviews Genetics has published a review (go figure) of speciation genetics penned by Mohamed Noor and Jeff Feder. Here is the purpose of the review, from the horses' mouths: Here, we review how recent advances in molecular and genomic...
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Posted on November 1, 2006 8:00 AM • 0 Comments
The Scientist (we're not sure which one) reviews the palm tree sympatric speciation paper from February (doi here). Here's what Jerry Coyne has to say: "Both these cases are most parsimoniously interpreted as sympatric speciation," said Jerry Coyne at the...
Posted on September 22, 2006 12:00 PM • 2 Comments
Here are three interesting items that I don't plan on blogging, but are worth linking to: Here is a news release on indel variation in humans. SNPs are so 20th century. Deletions, duplications, and insertions are the molecular polymorphisms of...
Posted on August 15, 2006 2:00 PM • 2 Comments
Here is some light reading for your Sunday: Mosquitoes sing to each other by flapping their wings. This paper reports sexually dimorphic responses to wing beat patterns in mosquitoes (PZ Myers has a good review). This leads me to wonder...
Posted on July 16, 2006 9:00 AM • 0 Comments
Carl Zimmer has an article in the NYTimes Science section on how humans can interfere with diverging populations, increasing the frequency of hybrids and preventing speciation. He give two examples: three-spine sticklebacks in British Columbia, Canada and ground finches in...
Posted on May 23, 2006 10:00 AM • 2 Comments
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