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[May 10, 2013]  Congratulations to Cody Wiench, who received an Undergraduate Research Award from the Department of Biological Sciences to work in the lab for the summer.  Cody will be working on estimating the G matrix in experimental yeast populations.


[Feb 21, 2013]  Hybrids between introduced rainbow trout and native westslope cutthroat trout generally have lower fitness than the parental species.  Nonetheless, we identified a small set of loci at which rainbow trout alleles have introgressed rapidly into hybridized populations and now occur at significantly higher frequency than the overall level of admixture.  See the details here.


[Dec 4, 2012]  A special issue of Evolutionary Ecology Research focuses on niche theory and speciation.  See Andrew Hendry's commentary here, and our submission here.


[Nov 28, 2012]  Hot off the presses: the latest edition of the conservation genetics textbook from Fred Allendorf and colleagues:



[Sep 13, 2012]  Check out the latest installment to the series of simulations examining G matrix evolution by Adam Jones and colleagues here.


[Aug 16, 2012]  A couple minor updates have added a few more options to the Dimensionality of Sexual Isolation analysis software available here.


[July 9, 2012]  RAD sequencing identifies a putative sex chromosome in zebrafish.  More here.


[July 9, 2012]  Rapid evolution recapitulates ontogeny!  In a recent paper in Evolution & Development with Chuck Kimmel and colleagues, we show how shape evolution of the stickleback opercle bone in fresh water reflects truncation of the ontogenetic trajectory of opercle shape in the marine ancestor.  See the paper here.


[July 5, 2012]  In analyzing the dimensionality of sexual isolation in Timema stick insects, Patrik Nosil and I detected a novel signature of reinforcement -- parapatry appears to increase the dimensionality of traits and preferences involved in mate choice and sexual isolation.  Check out the paper in early view here, part of a special issue on niche theory and speciation edited by Andrew Hendry and Geza Meszena.  The dataset and dimensionality analysis software are here.


[June 28, 2012]  Check out our recent paper describing how genomic data can be used to delineate conservation units, now online at Trends in Ecology & Evolution.


[June 26, 2012]  Many thanks to the Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics, organizers Patricia Palagi and Ute Friedrich, and all the participants for putting on such a great course in bioinformatics and population genomics last week!  Please send an email if you'd like information from the RADseq part of the program.


[June 7, 2012]  Congratulations to Matthieu Delcourt, who received an Idaho INBRE Postdoctoral Fellowship!!


[June 6, 2012]  In 2011 we used RAD sequencing to identify thousands of candidate diagnostic SNPs to differentiate westslope cutthroat and rainbow trout.  Now in a new paper in Molecular Ecology Resources, we show a high rate of validation for high-throughput SNP assays based on a subset of these candidates.  Early view is available here.


[Mar 27, 2012]  Another quick update adding some functions to the RAD population genomics tools.  Download the new source code here.


[Feb 20, 2012]  A quick update fixed a bug in the RAD population genomics tools.  Download the new source code here.


[Jan 2, 2012]  See our recent publication on linkage disequilibrium and rapid parallel evolution in stickleback here, part of a great special issue on the genomics of speciation edited by Patrik Nosil and Jeff Feder.


[Nov 4, 2011]  Check out this curriculum supplement for high school students on Evolution and Medicine, produced by NIH.


[Oct 24, 2011]  Don't miss this symposium on the Future of Evo-Devo, to be held in Portland, OR, on Feb. 10-12, 2012.  


[Sep 15, 2011]  Spots are still available in the ConGen course on analyzing population genetic data, to be held on the shores of Flathead Lake, Montana, in the last week of September.


[Aug 30, 2011]  Stacks is official!  See the paper describing Stacks software for analyzing RAD sequencing and other population genomics data.


[Jun 17, 2011]  High-throughput Genotyping: Interested in high-throughput marker discovery and genotyping?  Working on a non-model organism and wondering what technique to use and how to design your sampling?? See our recent review here or here.



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