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Category Archives: phylogenetics
The key to a productive ecosystem may be plant neighbors’ chemistry
One of the grand patterns across the diversity of flowering plants is that major groups of species are deeply united by shared chemistry, especially “secondary” biochemical products that don’t directly contribute to processes like photosynthesis, growth, and reproduction. Secondary compounds … Continue reading
Posted in Coevolution, community ecology, ecology, phylogenetics
Tagged plant chemistry, plants
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Microbial mutualists parted ways with this host plant — multiple times
Posted in evolution, microbiology, phylogenetics, plants
Tagged Bradyrhizobium, legume-rhizobium symbiosis, mutualism
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One Thousand Plant Transcriptomes and Not a Single to Spare
What is the weight of a transcriptome? How about a thousand? Every day new sequencing machines are purring away, base pair by base pair, producing novel insights into the genomes of our favorite organisms. As technology improves, costs come down, and opportunities … Continue reading
Posted in phylogenetics, plants, RNAseq, transcriptomics
Tagged Gene duplication, Gene family, polyploidy
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Is taxonomy still relevant to innovative science?
Elise Keister wrote this post as a final project for Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Conservation Genetics course at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Elise studies the impact of climate change on corals as a PhD student in Dr. Dustin Kemp’s lab. Elise … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, ecology, evolution, genomics, phylogenetics
Tagged Blogging, coral, Science Communication, symbiodinium, UAB
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Conference catch-up: The many colors of snow
Red snow … watermelon snow … green snow … did you know that snow came in so many different colors? I had never heard of watermelon ice (#🍉❄) until a talk given by Robin Kodner from Western Washington University at … Continue reading
Posted in adaptation, bioinformatics, citizen science, community ecology, evolution, fieldwork, mating system, microbiology, natural history, phylogenetics, phylogeography, population genetics, selection, speciation, transcriptomics
Tagged biogeochemistry, Chlamydomonas nivalis, clonality, conference, ecology, Evolution, genetics, genomics, geoecology, life cycles, Snow algae, species, workshop
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Nick Fountain-Jones wins Harry Smith Prize for study of virus transmission among urban bobcats
The Harry Smith Prize is awarded for the best paper in Molecular Ecology in the previous year led by an early-career researcher. The 2018 Prize has been awarded to Dr. Nick Fountain-Jones for his paper ‘Urban landscapes can change virus gene flow and evolution … Continue reading