The Speciation Journal Club
This journal club is no longer active.
In this journal club we will be discussing papers focusing on processes driving biological diversification, with particular emphasis on population divergence, isolating mechanisms, introgression, hybrid zone dynamics or even local adaptation. We intend to examine studies using a variety of approaches, ranging from experimental evolution and quantitative genetics to comparative phylogenetics and population genomics, so we hope it will be of interest to many of you. There will also be the opportunity for presenting data and discussing analytical issues, if needed.
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The Speciation Journal Club is an initiative of the Sparrow Group, currently being organized by Fabrice Eroukhmanoff, and is scheduled to run weekly on Thursdays at 13:00 in the Aquarium, third floor in Kristine Bonnevies hus.
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This Thursday, there will be no Speciation Journal Club, instead, we all welcome you to a full day of hybridization and speciation! A symposium supported by IBV, CEES and EVOGENE.
The symposium will feature two prominent young researchers in the field, Joana Meier (University of Bern, Switzerland) & Mario Vallejo-Marin (University of Stirling, UK). We have previously discussed some of their papers at the Speciation Journal Club, but they will also discuss some of their latest unpublished research.
If you wish to meet with Joana or Mario on friday, please contact me or one of the other organizers.
This Thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper using demographic modeling to trace the origin(s) of hybrid cichlid species by Meier et al. published in 2017 in Molecular Ecology.
This Thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper on Speciation by genome duplication by Vallejo-Marin et al. published in 2015 in Evolution.
This Thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper on brain size ad colonization processes, by Fristoe et al. published in 2017 in Nture Ecology and Evolution.
This Thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper on opsin evolution in different light environments in sticklebacks, by Marques et al. published in 2017 in PLoS Biology.
This thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper on
what shapes the continuum of reproductive isolation using the famous Heliconius model system, by Mérot et al. 2017 (TProceedings B)
This thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper on frequency dependence, immunity and migration by Bolnick and Stutz published in 2017 in Nature.
This thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper on Adaptation to Global Change via Transposable Element and Epigenetics, by Rey et al. 2016 (Trends in Ecology and Evolution)
This thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper on hybridization and cichlid adaptive radiations, by Meier et al. 2017 (Nature Communications)
This thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper on Genomic islands of divergence , by Bay and Ruegg 2017 (Proceedings B)
This thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper on Transitions between phases of genomic differentiation during stick-insect speciation, by Riesch et al. 2017 (Nature Ecology & Evolution)
This thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper on levels of nucleotide diversity in homologous regions of the avian genome, by Dutoit et al. 2017 (Proceedings B)
This thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper on reproductive isolation and speciation rate variation in nature, by Rabosky 2016 (BJLS)
This thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper on Mega-evolutionary dynamics of the adaptive radiation of birds, by Cooney et al. 2017 (Nature)
This thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper entitled "Multispecies coalescent delimits structure, not species" by Sukumaran and Knowles from PNAS (2017)
This thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper entitled "Shedding Light on the Grey Zone of Speciation along a Continuum of Genomic Divergence" by Roux et al. in PLoS Biology (2016)
This thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper entitled "Divergence and Functional Degradation of a Sex Chromosome-like Supergene" by Tutte et al. in Current Biology (2016)
This thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper entitled "Neighboring genes for DNA-binding proteins rescue male sterility in Drosophila hybrids" by Lienard et al. in PNAS (2016)
This thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper entitled "
Making sense of genomic islands of differentiation in light of speciation" by Wolf and Ellegren, published in 2016 in Nature Reviews Genetics
This thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper entitled " Feralisation targets different genomic loci to domestication in the chicken" by Johnsson et al. 2016 in Nature Communications
This thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper entitled "Genomic variation at the tips of the adaptive radiation of Darwin's finches" by Chaves et al. 2016 in Molecular Ecology.
This thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper entitled "detection of human adaptation during the past 2000 years" by Field et al. 2016 in Science.
This thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper entitled
"Rapid evolutionary response to a transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils" by Epstein et al. 2016 (Nature Communications).
This thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper entitled "Ancient horizontal transfers of retrotransposons between birds and ancestors of human pathogenic nematodes"
by Suh et al. 2016 (Nature Communications)