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This week's Macroevolution journal club deals with 17,208 bodysizes over 542 million years. It's a recent paper from Science by Heim et al.

This week we will discuss a paper by Lamichhaney et al. (Nature, 2015) on the genomic basis of beak divergence in Darwin's finches.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v518/n7539/full/nature14181.html

Please note that the meeting will take place on wednesday the 25^th and not thursday, at 12 as usual!

This week, between the trial lecture and lunch, we'll be discussing a not-so-box-fresh paper from 2012 in Proceedings B by Smith, Lloyd and McGowan titled Phanerozoic marine biodiversity: rock record modelling provides an independent test of large-scale trends

Essentially it compares subsampling (Alroy's SQS) and a much applied bias-correction method to try to reconstruct diversity from fossil data.

Bring a friend and see you Friday.

IBV Department and CEES Extra seminar by Darren E. Irwin from Beaty Biodiversity Museum & University of British Columbia

 Asbjørn Vøllestad, CEES

CEES Extra seminar by David Righton & Julian Metcalfe from Cefas.

Speakers: Michaela Jarkovská, Staffan Müller-Wille, Stig Omholt and Aoife McLysaght

Friday seminar by Andreas Hejnol, Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology

This week, Andreas Hejnol will be visiting and we will read a perspective paper relevant to his group's reserach, namely "Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough" pulished in PLoSBiology in 2011 by Philippe et al. For background on metazoan phylogenies see Dunn et al. 2014

Per Åberg, Universitetet i Göteborg

This Friday 30th of January we discuss a paper on why ungulates that have more friends also have larger brains. "Gregariousness increases brain size in ungulates", by Pérez-Barbería and Gordon (2005). NOTE: Change of time - journal club starts at 11:15!

Friday seminar by Rolf A. Ims

We read a paper by on bryozoan evolution in the Isthmus of Panama in Evolutionary Ecology 2012 by Jagadeeshan and O'Dea.

This weeks MaEcovo journal club will discuss Charles Nunn and Natalie Cooper's recent paper in Evolution; Investigating evolutionary lag using the species-pairs evolutionary lag test (SPELT). Welcome all!

Friday seminar by Terrence W. Deacon from Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. Now with abstract.

It is time for this year's last TGAC meeting, where we'll discuss the current "Flock of genomes" special issue of Science about 48 newly released bird genomes. With eight research articles and one review, this special issue could keep the TGAC busy for weeks, but for now I propose to focus on the article of Jarvis et al. entitled "Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds".

This Friday we'll be enjoying a discussion on Phylogenetic Path Analysis, a chapter from the recently published book Modern Phylogenetic Comparative Methods and Their Application in Evolutionary Biology, edited by László Zsolt Garamszegi. Whole book is available in the link above, we're gonna talk about Chapter 8: An Introduction to Phylogenetic Path Analysis by Alejandro Gonzalez-Voyer and Achaz von Hardenberg. To keep spirits high there's a number of cartoons in the chapter as well as a footnote stating that pun is intended, so it'll be a fun read.

This week we will read an a bit more ecological paper on hybridization and evolutionary outcomes entitled "Hierarchical behaviour, habitat use and species size differences shape evolutionary outcomes of hybridization in a coral reef fish" by Gainsford and colleagues to be published in Journal of Evolutionary Biology. Please note that the meeting will take place at a different location this time!

Friday seminar by Arnaud Le Rouzic. NEW TIME: 12.15

This week we'll be learning when species richness should be energy limited (I think the right answer is "sometimes"), and more interestingly; how would we know? An idea and perspective paper by Hurlbert and Stegen in Ecology Letters 2014.

Same time, same place, same people. Welcome!

Bank et al. (2014) looks like the perfect paper for a TGAC discussion: Highly relevant (arguing that selective sweep detection needs to take demography and background selection into account), brand new (currently in press corrected proof), and short (7 pages). So let's have a TGAC meeting on Tuesday, at 1 pm as usual.

This week we'll be discussing a paper by Brockhurst and co-workers in Proceedings B:  Running with the Red Queen: the role of biotic conflicts in evolution

2-day conference on the history of plague, at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, with summarizing thoughts of Jared Diamond. Please register.

Friday seminar by Annelise Binois