Tag Archives: landscape genetics

Recent reading: 1 April 2022

Posted on 1 Apr, 2022 by Jeremy Yoder

April Fool’s Day is no one’s favorite holiday, as far as I can tell. I do remember a time when it was sort of fun to be listening to Morning Edition over breakfast and slowly realize that the totally serious-sounding … Continue reading →

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Genes rolling down the river

Posted on 12 Jun, 2020 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

Sarah Shainker wrote this post as a part of Dr. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Conservation Genetics course at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Sarah completed a B.S. in Marine Biology at the College of Charleston before serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines, … Continue reading →

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Go north, young salamander

Posted on 24 May, 2019 by Jeremy Yoder
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The biggest problem in landscape genetics and how to fix it

Posted on 11 Dec, 2015 by Rob Denton

Landscape genetics is a field that has expanded rapidly in recent years, but that doesn’t mean that it hasn’t gone without criticism. Perhaps the largest problem with landscape genetics (LG) studies is one of timing. If you observe genetic differentiation … Continue reading →

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Long distance dispersal of modern humans outside of Africa

Posted on 10 Dec, 2015 by Arun Sethuraman

Long distance dispersal (LDD) has long known to be an artifact of human migrations out of Africa. However, the effects of LDD on modern human diversity, and models of LDD in human colonization are yet to be characterized. Using an … Continue reading →

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Anti-predatory adaptations in sticklebacks and butterflies

Posted on 23 Nov, 2015 by Arun Sethuraman

Two recent studies analyze character shifts in response to different selection regimes – (1) Mullerian mimicry wing patterns in Heliconius butterflies, and (2) anti-intraguild-predator adaptations in armor and shape of threespine sticklebacks. Hoyal Cuthill and Charleston 2015 Wing patterning genes … Continue reading →

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Landscape genetics shows that Tanzanian forest monkeys feel the heat of human influence

Posted on 23 Sep, 2015 by Rob Denton

A new publication appearing in Heredity applies new methods for associating population genetic data with landscape resistance to an tropical, endangered species. The authors utilize multiple measurements of landscape resistance, like forest cover and distance from the nearest village, to select the … Continue reading →

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Environmental association analyses: a practical guide for a practical guide

Posted on 2 Sep, 2015 by Rob Denton

Obtaining extensive SNP data for your organism of choice isn’t such a feat these days, but actually matching that breadth of data with appropriate analyses is still a challenge. Fortunately, there has been an avalanche of new methods to make … Continue reading →

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Should we use Mantel tests in molecular ecology?

Posted on 5 Aug, 2015 by Rob Denton

No. Stop. At least that is the message from a new publication in Methods in Ecology and Evolution by Pierre Legendre and colleagues (pay-walled, but I found a pdf here). Mantel tests should simply not be used to test hypotheses … Continue reading →

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marmap

Posted on 3 Jul, 2015 by Stacy Krueger-Hadfield

A couple years ago, Benoit Simon-Bouhet ended up sharing an office with Eric Pante, then a post-doc fellow in his former lab. The two quickly realized they were in a lab in which few people had the expertise or taste for coding. Thus, on … Continue reading →

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