Journal clubs - Page 13

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This Friday we will discuss a new review paper by Vermeij on his "Escalation" theory, which he sees as the viable alternative to the Red Queen hypothesis. The paper is a long verbal argument, but gives some context to the points made about the Red Queen in the recent paper by Vermeij & Roopnarine in Paleobiology. 

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This week we discuss a paper by Berenos, Schmid-Hempel and Wegner entitled "Antagonistic Coevolution Accelerates the Evolution of Reproductive Isolation in Tribolium castaneum".

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We'll have a brainstorm on SNP calling from whole genome sequencing data. I'll briefly describe the pipeline I've run up to now, which is mostly preceding actual SNP calling, and then want to focus the discussion on how to get a high quality SNP dataset from low coverage resequencing - i.e. how to call SNPs, what filtering criteria to use to distinguish high from low quality SNPs, and how this may vary depending on the subsequent analyses we want to do with our SNP data. This will really be a brainstorm, an open discussion, all ideas welcome. If you would like to read up a bit beforehand, I can recommend the guide form the Broad Institute which has been one of my guidelines along the way (http://www.broadinstitute.org/gatk/guide/best-practices).

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This Friday we read Jablonski's new paper in PNAS on an old topic: "out of the tropics". 

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This Thursday we will meet and discuss Christopher H. Martin and Peter C. Wainwright's paper "Multiple Fitness Peaks on the Adaptive Landscape Drive Adaptive Radiation in the Wild" published in Science earlier this year.

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Our journal club reading this Friday will be "Testing the link between phenotypic evolution and speciation: an integrated palaeontological and phylogenetic analysis" by Gene Hunt, published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution in August 2013.

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We'll be discussing the following paper this week: D. Tilman Am Nat. 2011 178:355-371 Diversification, biotic interchange, and the universal trade-off hypothesis

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We heard Fitzjohn speak at ESEB and would like to discuss his models in greater detail. Join us in discussing his paper from Sys Biol 2010

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This week we will discuss "The Hologenomic Basis of Speciation: Gut Bacteria Cause Hybrid Lethality in the Genus Nasonia" by Brucker and Bordenstein 2013 Science 341:667-669 

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We start this term's journal club with a new Red Queen paper by Quental and Marshall in Science 341:(290-292)

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This week's reading is Abrudan et al's "Killing as means of promoting biodiversity" in Biochem. Soc. Trans. (2012) 40, 1512–1516.  

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This Friday, our journal club reads "Diversity-dependence brings molecular phylogenies closer to agreement with the fossil record" by Etienne and others in PRBS 2012.  

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Our journal club reading will be  "Tempo of trophic evolution and its impact on mammalian diversification" by Price et al. in PNAS 2012 this Friday.

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We will discuss Opazo et al. 2013 Whole-Genome Duplication and the Functional Diversification of Teleost Fish Hemoglobins (MBE 30: 140-153).

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This Friday we read a new PNAS paper on "Environmental and biotic controls on the evolutionary hsitory of insect body size" by Clapham & Kerr (PNAS 109: 10927-10930).

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This Thursday, we will read "THE IMPACT OF REGIONAL CLIMATE ON THE EVOLUTION OF MAMMALS: A CASE STUDY USING FOSSIL HORSES" by Eronen et al. 2010. The paper can be found in Evolution 64: 398-408

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Discussion of Linnenbrink et al. 2013 The role of biogeography in shaping diversity of the intestinal microbiota in house mice (Molecular Ecology 22: 1904-1916).

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The journal club "Macroevolution and Red Queen" is this week discussing:  "Phylogenetic limiting similarity and competitive exclusion" by Violle et al. 2011 in Ecology Letters

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The journal club "Macroevolution and Red Queen" is this week discussing:  "Eco-evolutionary dynamics in response to selection on life-history" by Cameron et at. 2013 in Ecology Letters

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This week at TGAC we have the pleasure to listen to Geir Kjetil Sandve and Sveinung Gundersen from IFI, who will give a presentation about "Doing bioinformatics more efficiently and reproducible with the Galaxy platform"

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The journal club "Macroevolution and Red Queen" is this week discussing:  "Assessing the role of cladogenesis in macroevolution by integrating fossil and molecular evidence" by Strotz and Allen 2013. PNAS 110;2904–2909

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This week, the journal club Maecovo reads Monroe's "Does competition drive character differences between species on a macroevolutionary scale?" Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25: 2341-2347

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Discussion on the program SNAPP (SNP and AFLP package for Phylogenetic Analyses) and the associated paper by Bryant et al. 2013 Inferring Species Trees Directly from Biallelic Genetic Markers: Bypassing Gene Trees in a Full Coalescent Analysis (MBE 29: 1917-1932).

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This week, the journal club Maecovo reads Slater, Harmon & Alfaro's "Integrating fossils with molecular phylogenies improves inference of trait evolution" (2012 Evolution 66: 3931-3944)