The worn and weary phrase “There’s more fish in the sea” isn’t just cold solace for heartbroken saps, but for shark biologists, this means more discoveries…
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Tag: Genetics
“Icy Inverts” 2013 Cruise – Scientific Adventures in Antarctic Waters
Genomics, Biodiversity, and Antarctica – three of my favourite things! For all you expedition junkies, these three things are exactly the focus of the 2013…
View More “Icy Inverts” 2013 Cruise – Scientific Adventures in Antarctic WatersWho’s your daddy?
Jenny Schmidt from U. Illinois and her co-authors have uncovered a fascinating nugget of biology of the whale shark in a recent (and Open Access…
View More Who’s your daddy?Red Means Go: Coral, Color, and Climate Change
One of the defining decision points of life: Settle-down and make a living close to the familiar particulars of your birthplace or venture out to…
View More Red Means Go: Coral, Color, and Climate ChangeBiodiversity crisis-a call to arms for scientists?
Dr. M’s article in Wired truly stirred something in me this morning. We need to put names on things. I’m a scientist who has always…
View More Biodiversity crisis-a call to arms for scientists?Guest Post: Why cancer researchers think fish are cool
Editor’s Note: Genomic Repairman is a friend I’ve gotten to know through Twitter (@genrepair). He is a semi-cultured, good-natured graduate student in biomedical sciences who…
View More Guest Post: Why cancer researchers think fish are coolFollow Dr. Bik to the Gulf!
Remember Dr. M’s recent disturbing post about the quelling of independent science in the Gulf? I can now officially announce that my lab was one…
View More Follow Dr. Bik to the Gulf!ResearchBlogCast #11: A Population Genetics Species Concept?
A recent PLoS One paper by Birky and colleagues attempts to define species for asexual animals using the theoretical framework that has been developed by…
View More ResearchBlogCast #11: A Population Genetics Species Concept?If I had my way, we’d just sequence everything
Sometimes I find it really frustrating that all we ever talk about is species (granted, I am very guilty of this too). Is it new? …
View More If I had my way, we’d just sequence everythingThe Tide Pool: Divergent Flatfish, Eavesdropping Fiddler Crabs, Hurricanes Kill Urchins
An occasional series where we briefly report 3 new studies and tell you why they are cool! ———————————- The western Pacific is broken land, plates…
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