Archaeogenomics Journal Club

This week we discuss a paper by Roopnarine et al. 2022, comparing historical and modern community responses to investigate whether sea cow browsing may have enhanced kelp forest resilience

This week we discuss a paper by Brasil et al., recently published in Conservation Genetics.

This week we discuss a recently published paper by Dona et al. (2022), on ball rolling by bumble bees and animal play criteria.

This week we discuss a paper by Hernandez-Castro et al. 2022, on dispersal and adaptation in the Chagas disease vector R. Ecuadoriensis 

This week we discuss a paper on the genomic basis of invasiveness in plants, specifically release from enemy microbes and inter-species hybridization in the invasive success of European ragweed.

This week we discuss a paper by Theodorou et al. 2018, on local adaptation to urbanization in the red-tailed bumblebee.

This week we discuss a paper by Le Duc et al., recently published in Science Advances. 

This week we discuss a paper on the role of ancient and historical DNA in preserving biodiversity, recently published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

This week we discuss a paper on genetic variation and phylogeographic patterns of five bumblebee species.

This week we discuss a paper on dietary plasticity in the extinct passenger pigeon.

This week we discuss a paper by Smith et al. recently published in Scientific Reports.

This week we discuss a paper by Raposeiro et al. recently published in PNAS.

This week we discuss a paper on using hyb-seq for analysing herbarium specimens

This week we discuss a paper on comparative population genomics of bumblebees.

This week we discuss a paper on palaeogenomic reconstruction.

This week we discuss a paper on genomics of rapid parallel adaptation in the marine snail Littorina saxatilis.

This week we discuss a paper on pollen and eDNA preserved in old guano deposits from two caves in Jamaica.

This week we discuss a paper on connectivity and structure in albacore tuna inferred from morphometrics, genetics and modelling particle drift modelling.

This week we discuss a paper on genome skimming. The paper presents the potential for using low-coverage shotgun data for species identification, moving forward from more traditional barcoding approaches.

This week we discuss a paper on structural genomic variation. The study reports on resequencing of >1000 wild sunflowers and finds large non-recombining haplotype blocks that are associated with ecologically relevant traits and soil and climate characteristics.