**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: Matthew Hartfield is a NERC Independent Research Fellow at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh UK. His research explores the interaction between genetic selection and reproduction, using mathematical […]
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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 […]
Partial clonality – a force to be reckoned with
**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 Authors: Sarah Shainker (she/her/hers) is a PhD student in Dr. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s lab at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She uses population genetics to research the mating […]
Behind the science: the fellowship of haplodiplontic taxa
**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: Dr. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield is an evolutionary ecologist and assistant professor of biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She works on life cycle and reproductive […]
Behind the science: Where and how to move forward? A shared plant and human dilemma
**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: Sissi is an evolutionary ecologist interested in how plants reproduce and interact with their biotic environment, in particular with their pollinators. She is a postdoctoral fellow currently working […]
Behind the Science: SNPs and Snails – nucleotide diversity and DNA content variation in asexual snails
**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: Kara M. Million is a PhD candidate in the Lively lab at Indiana University. Her dissertation work is on parasites, mate choice, and MHC gene diversity […]
Determining reproductive mode in Japanese harvesters: The search for 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: Tyler Brown is a PhD candidate in Dr. Mercedes Burns’ lab at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His research focuses on sexual conflict and its role […]
Behind the Science: Genomic determination of reproductive mode in facultatively parthenogenetic Opiliones
**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: Dr. Mercedes Burns is an assistant professor of biological sciences at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her research focuses on the evolution of sexual reproduction […]
Two Days and a Quarter of a Century – the inspiration for the 2019 AGA President’s Symposium
About the author: Dr. Maria E. Orive received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently Professor and Chair of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas. While at KU, she spent one year as a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Dr. Orive’s research in […]
Genomic Perspectives in Comparative Physiology of Mollusks: Integration across Disciplines
About the author: Dr. Omera Matoo (she/her/hers) is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE. Her research uses evolutionary genetics and ecophysiology to understand how organisms, from both terrestrial and aquatic habitats, maintain energetic fitness under stress. She earned her PhD in Biology from University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2013, where […]