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This Thursday we will discuss ecological and mutation-order speciation and read a recent paper on digital organisms from the American Naturalist: "Ecological and Mutation-Order Speciation in Digital Organisms" by Anderson & Harmon.

Please note that the meeting will take place at 13:15 this week!  

This Friday 14th of March, the MaEcovo journal club will be discussing the 2013 paper by van der Geer et al.: "Body size evolution of palaeo-insular mammals: temporal variations and interspecific interactions."

This week we will read a recent empirical paper by Chung et al. reporting on a role for a magic trait in Drosophila speciation. The paper is entitled "A Single Gene Affects Both Ecological Divergence and Mate Choice in Drosophila", and was recently published in Science.

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. 

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.  

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

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".  

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

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.

Yngvild Vindenes

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".

This week we will discuss two papers on the proportion of the genome that is encoding, "An integrated encyclopedia of DNA elements in the human genome" authored by The Encode Project Consortium published in Nature 2012, and a critique entitled "On the Immortality of Television Sets: “Function” in the Human Genome According to the Evolution-Free Gospel of ENCODE" by Graur and colleagues published in GBE 2013.

Our journal club reading this Friday will be "Niche breadth predicts geographical range size: a general ecological pattern" by Slatyer et al., published in Ecology Letters in August 2013. 

In the Macroevolution and Red Queen Journal Club on Friday we will read Uyeda et al. 2010 paper on phenotypic evolution across a range of timescales 'The million-year wait for macroevolutionary bursts'.

This Thursday we will discuss how hybridization can generate morphological variation that spurs adaptive radiation chichlids. The paper (Selz et al. 2014; attached) is entitled "Relaxed trait covariance in interspecific cichlid hybrids predicts morphological diversity in adaptive radiations" and has just been published in JEB.

The Encode-discussion has been postponed to a later date (January 30th).

This week in MaEcovo, we will read a new paper by Richard Lenski's group on fitness increasing without bound in Science Express. See also the Pennisi's  article on Lenski's experiments.

This week we will discuss a paper by Sella et al. (PloS Genetics, 2009) on pervasive natural selection in Drosophila. http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1000495

Please note that the meeting will take place at a different location than usual this time!

In the Macroevolution and Red Queen Journal Club on Friday we will read Lindsey et al, "Evolutionary rescue from extinction is contingent on a lower rate of environmental change"

This week we will discuss a paper on the mixed ancestry of the First Americans, published recently in Nature. The western Eurasian genetic signatures in modern-day Native Americans seem to derive not only from post-Columbian admixture, as commonly thought, but also from a mixed ancestry of the First Americans.

We will discuss Fang et al. 2013 Genome-wide mapping of methylated adenine residues in pathogenic Escherichia coli using single-molecule real-time sequencing (Nature Biotechnology 30: 1232-1239).