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Entries from October 30th, 2007

Why sex?

October 30th, 2007 · No Comments · assignments

Dear class, Please read the following article from Nat. Rev. Genetics by William Rice, who is one of my heroes in population biology. Experimental tests of sex

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“Niche occupation limits adaptive radiation”

October 28th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized

niche-occupation-limits.pdf Here is a paper that I thought you guys would like. It goes along well with our discussion on island biogeography and immigration history. -Steffen

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Evolution of mutation rates

October 22nd, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized

As promised, I have posted a couple of articles that discuss the evolution of mutation rates. 1:Taddei et al Science mutator evo 2: Sniegowski, Sulfolobus mutation rate Please read these for the week of 10/22

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Assignments for 10/9 and 10/11

October 5th, 2007 · No Comments · assignments

At the moment, the reading for the week is the following: Rainey and Travisano Nature 1998

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