**The AGA grants EECG Research Awards each year to graduate and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research, where additional funds would allow them to conclude their research project and prepare it for publication. EECG awardees also get the opportunity to hone their science communication and write three posts over their […]
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EECG Embarkation: The Transcriptional Architecture of Sexual Dimorphism
**The AGA grants EECG Research Awards each year to graduate and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research, where additional funds would allow them to conclude their research project and prepare it for publication. EECG awardees also get the opportunity to hone their science communication and write three posts over their […]
EECG Embarkation: Colors, hormones, and genes: How are genomic expression patterns altered to facilitate the evolution of color?
**The AGA grants EECG Research Awards each year to graduate and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research, where additional funds would allow them to conclude their research project and prepare it for publication. EECG awardees also get the opportunity to hone their science communication and write three posts over their […]
Scaffolding Adaptation – Otto (2020) Selective Interference and the Evolution of Sex
**This post is a part of the series on the 2019 AGA Presidential Symposium – Sex and Asex: the genetics of complex life cycles** About the Author: Sarah McPeek is a PhD candidate in Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior with Dr. Butch Brodie at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA. Her research focuses […]
Mayflies and the origin of parthenogenesis
**This post is a part of the series on the 2019 AGA Presidential Symposium – Sex and Asex: the genetics of complex life cycles** About the author: Frank Stearns is an Adjunct Professor teaching Genetics and a writing course on Science Communication. He is interested in adaptation and speciation genetics and in the history […]
Behind the Science: Starting at the Beginning
**This post is a part of the series on the 2019 AGA Presidential Symposium – Sex and Asex: the genetics of complex life cycles** About the Author: Adena Collens is an undergraduate student in her senior year at Smith College. She has enjoyed learning about protist diversity and genome evolution in Dr. Laura Katz’s […]
Bridging the conservation genetics gap to save Britain’s last wild-living felid
About the author: Dr Helen Taylor is a conservation geneticist who studied for her PhD in New Zealand, working on inbreeding in little spotted kiwi. She went on to undertake postdoctoral research on inbreeding and male fertility in passerines and, at that point, became interested in the integration of genetics into conservation management. After eight years […]
Symposium Snippets: AGA Presidential Symposium Genes as Environments Day Four
Meet the bloggers: Mitchel Daniel is a postdoctoral fellow at Florida State University. He is an evolutionary and behavioral ecologist, and is especially interested in sexual selection, kin selection, and kin recognition. Follow Mitchel’s work @MitchelJDaniel. Walid Mawass is an evolutionary geneticist, currently a PhD candidate at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, […]
Symposium Snippets: AGA Presidential Symposium Genes as Environments Day Three
Meet the bloggers: Mitchel Daniel is a postdoctoral fellow at Florida State University. He is an evolutionary and behavioral ecologist, and is especially interested in sexual selection, kin selection, and kin recognition. Follow Mitchel’s work @MitchelJDaniel. Walid Mawass is an evolutionary geneticist, currently a PhD candidate at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, […]
Symposium Snippets: AGA Presidential Symposium Genes as Environments Day Two
Meet the bloggers: Mitchel Daniel is a postdoctoral fellow at Florida State University. He is an evolutionary and behavioral ecologist, and is especially interested in sexual selection, kin selection, and kin recognition. Follow Mitchel’s work @MitchelJDaniel. Walid Mawass is an evolutionary geneticist, currently a PhD candidate at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, […]