Category Archives: speciation

Evolution 2013 Recap

Posted on 27 Jun, 2013 by kimgilbert

As we all slowly trickle back from the recent SSE meeting in Snowbird, we’ll each be posting our own thoughts and summaries of the conference. I personally had a fantastic time, met a lot of great people, and saw a … Continue reading →

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Relentless Evolution: The vital relevance of the visible

Posted on 28 May, 2013 by Jeremy Yoder

The Molecular Ecologist receives a small commission for purchases made on Bookshop.org via links from this post. One of Stephen Jay Gould’s sharpest conceptual coinages was a barb leveled, from his paleontological perspective, at the body of research focused on bouts of adaptive … Continue reading →

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Speciation with gene flow and the virtual beanbag: Genome-level effects increase divergence during ecological speciation, but linkage is not required

Posted on 6 Mar, 2013 by Jeremy Yoder

This post is a guest contribution by Dylan Goldade, Kathryn Theiss, and Chris Smith, from the Biology Department at Willamette University. See below for the coauthors’ afflilations and research interests. In a famous address given on the hundredth anniversary of the … Continue reading →

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One of these flycatchers is not like the other …

Posted on 31 Oct, 2012 by Jeremy Yoder

When you think about it, an awful lot of the things you can do with a genome sequence amount to lining it up next to another genome sequence, and then listing all the places where they differ. That’s more or … Continue reading →

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