Previous events - Page 88

Male plumage variation and its role in reproductive isolation between house sparrows (Passer domesticus) and Italian sparrows (P. italiae)  &  A new method for quantifying colours of Passer sparrows using digital imaging in the field

This Friday the 7th of March, MaEcovo journal club will discuss a paper by Susumu Tomiya, 2013: "Body Size and Extinction Risk in Terrestrial Mammals Above the Species Level".

This week we will discuss "Species collapse via hybridization in Darwin’s tree finches" - a paper by Kleindorfer et al. recently published in The American Naturalist. 

CEES Extra seminar by David Sloan Wilson

Development of Mycobacterium marinum infections in zebrafish embryos, a model for testing nanoparticle against tuberculosis.

Friday seminar by Anna Gårdmark

CEES Extra seminar by Ana Gouveia

We read a paper in Journal of Mathematical Biology by Lambert, Morlon and Etienne about a model for diversification when speciation is protracted, as a follow up to last week's reading. It's not yet up on the journal's website but is accessible at arvis.org

This Thursday we will discuss a paper on how speciation- and extinction rates contribute to the latitudinal gradient in mammal diversity. The paper entitled "Faster Speciation and Reduced Extinction in the Tropics Contribute to the Mammalian Latitudinal Diversity Gradient" by Rolland and colleagues was recently published in PloS Biology.  

Friday seminar by Gilles Guillot

MaEcovo will discuss a review paper by Helene Morlon regarding models of diversification. Ecology Letters (early view)

Friday seminar by Bart Pollux

On Friday the 14th of February, the MaEcovo journal club will be discussing the 2013 paper by Fussman and Gonzales: "Evolutionary rescue can maintain an oscillating community undergoing environmental change"

This week we will discuss hybridization with Neanderthals and the traces of this in the genomes of modern day humans. We will read a recent Nature paper by Sankarararaman and colleagues entitled "The genomic landscape of Neanderthal ancestry in present-day humans".  

Chondroitin polymerizing factor (ChPF) and proteoglycan synthesis in epithelial cells

Speakers: Stefan Bengtson, Terrence W. Deacon, William F. Martin, Adam Rutherford, Nathan Sanders and Eörs Szathmáry

Friday seminar by Jakob Hemmer Hansen

This Friday, 7th of February, in the MaEcovo journal club we will be discussing a paper by Takahashi et al. from 2013:  "Abrupt community transitions and cyclic evolutionary dynamics in complex food webs".

This Thursday we will discuss this interesting recent paper on the likelihood of non-allopatric speciation from the journal Evolution: THE RATE TEST OF SPECIATION: ESTIMATING THE LIKELIHOOD OF NON-ALLOPATRIC SPECIATION FROM REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION RATES IN DROSOPHILA by Roman Yukilevich. It is not published in an issue yet, but you can download the paper from the link above.

The role of perineuronal nets for spatial representations of the hippocampus

Yngvild Vindenes

Friday seminar by Wolfram M. Kürschner

On Friday 31st in the MaEcovo jornal club we will be discussing an Ecology Letters paper byMCoy & Pfister, 2014 :  "Historical comparisons reveal altered competitive interactions in a guild of crustose coralline algae".