Tag Archives: coevolution

Molecular Ecology and Molecular Ecology Resources are recruiting new Associate Editors

Posted on 18 Jan, 2022 by Jeremy Yoder

Molecular Ecology and Molecular Ecology Resources are looking for new Editorial Board members to join the journals as Associate Editors in the key subject areas below: Broad genomic resources including genome assembly. Experience with plant genomes would be advantageous Microbial ecology/community ecology Microbiome … Continue reading →

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Shedding light on symbiotic relationships

Posted on 5 Feb, 2021 by Kelle Freel

Lots of critters glow in the dark, but most of them aren’t found in just any back yard…unless that back yard happens to be the beach. The ocean is full of bioluminescent critters that use light to attract prey (possibly … Continue reading →

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Brood Parasitism or Adoption? Mixed Parentage of Brooding Damselfishes

Posted on 20 Mar, 2020 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

Shelby Gantt wrote this post for Dr. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Scientific Communication course at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Long enamored with coral reef communities, Shelby completed a B.S. in Biology with a certificate in Marine Biology at the Georgia Institute of … Continue reading →

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Beetles' diversity was driven by coevolution with plants — and a little help from some microbial friends

Posted on 21 Jan, 2020 by Jeremy Yoder
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One of these things is not like the other……

Posted on 22 Apr, 2016 by Kelle Freel

While we know that bacteria are pretty scandalous with their DNA, not minding horizontal gene transfer (HGT) and such (which can be pretty confounding when trying to discuss species concepts), and although it’s clear that this kind of genetic material … Continue reading →

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Growing the evolutionary relationship between green algae and salamanders

Posted on 19 Nov, 2014 by Rob Denton

The presence of  green algae within the developing egg masses of amphibians has been recognized since the early 1900s, but only recently have researchers discovered that the these algae (termed “Oophila”) persist in animal tissues far after leaving the egg. The … Continue reading →

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What we're reading

Posted on 14 Dec, 2012 by Jeremy Yoder

As we head into the weekend, here’s a few things we’ve found that might be worth your screen time. In the journals Draghi, J. a & Whitlock, M.C. 2012. Phenotypic plasticity facilitates mutational variance, genetic variance, and evolvability along the … Continue reading →

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