Sierra Nevada red fox. Credit: US Fish and Wildlife Service. When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. But what do you make when life gives you an unexpected immigration and outbreeding event in the middle of your long-term non-invasive genetic sampling of a red fox population that was previously believed to have died out? […]
Month: November 2019
Where do wood frogs go when there’s no wood?
Wood frog (Lithobates sylvaticus) common to North America. Photo courtesy of Michael Zahniser, Wikimedia Commons. Humans have fundamentally altered their surroundings for a looooong time. With increasing urbanization worldwide, we need to better understand the consequences of suburbia in order to manage particularly vulnerable species. Though wood frogs are found throughout North America, loss […]
The Dichotomy in the Diversity of Vertebrate Sex Chromosome Systems
A trio of Cyprichromis leptosoma, a cichlid fish from Lake Tanganyika, East Africa. Cichlid fish show unexpected diversity of sex chromosomes within and among species. This species has a novel ZW sex determination system on linkage group 5, one of three new sex chromosome systems reported in Gammerdinger et al. 2018. Photo by Ad Konings. […]