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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.
Category: Molecular Evolution
A couple of years ago, there was talk in the bioblogosphere about getting the general public interested in bioinformatics and molecular evolution: Amateur bioinformatics? Lowering the Ivory Tower with Molecular Evolution Molecular Evolution for the Masses The idea was inspired...
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Category: Genetics
PLoS Genetics has published an interview with Jenny Graves, a leader monotreme and marsupial genetics and an expert on the evolution of sex chromosomes.
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Category: Evolution
PLoS Biology's press releases have taken another step toward being dismissed as "crap" by people who know jack shit about evolution, thanks to a new press release published last week.
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Category: Science Education
Chance and randomness are important, but often neglected.
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Category: Science Education
Remember those prizes I promised if you donated to any of the ScienceBlogs DonorsChoose.org challenges? I described the prize for one lucky donor to the evolgen challenge. Now Seed has revealed what they're giving away to a few lucky contributors...
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Category: Science Education
Seed offers to match donations; evolgen offers to have you name a newly characterized gene.
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Category: Science Education
Here's a great opportunity to support science education.
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Category: Molecular Evolution
Introducing aldolase, a duplicated gene involved in metabolism.
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Category: Molecular Evolution
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...
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Category: Molecular Evolution
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!
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