Category Archives: theory

For viruses, ecology shapes the speed of evolutionary change

Posted on 17 Sep, 2013 by Jeremy Yoder

Molecular ecologists are interested in understanding what patterns in genetic variation across and among populations can tell us about the ecology of the living things we study. But a paper published in the latest issue of The American Naturalist demonstrates … Continue reading →

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Want to share your code?

Posted on 27 Aug, 2013 by kimgilbert

In this line of work, we have all encountered tasks that are tedious, time consuming, and repetitive.  (Or if not, maybe give it a bit more time.) When confronted with these situations, people tend to fall into one of two … Continue reading →

Posted in bioinformatics, community, genomics, howto, methods, next generation sequencing, phylogenetics, population genetics, quantitative genetics, R, software, theory | 14 Comments

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 →

Posted in conferences, population genetics, quantitative genetics, speciation, theory, Uncategorized | 3 Comments

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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