About the author: Hannah Oswalt wrote this post as a part Dr. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Evolutionary Biology course at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Hannah is a doctoral student in Dr. Charles D. Amsler’s lab where she is investigating the effects of ocean acidification on macroalgae and amphipods around the western Antarctic Peninsula. She is […]
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Sex ratios have become a hot topic– we need to better understand how rising temperatures are skewing them
About the Author: Dr. Bonnie Derne (@b_derne) recently completed a PhD within the Lab of Evolutionary Genetics and Sociality at Flinders University, South Australia. She used genetic markers to track parasite dynamics during the experimental translocation of an endangered skink, and is generally interested by parasite ecology, conservation biology and the ways in […]
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 […]
Hybridization shapes 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: Taylor Williams wrote this post as a part of Dr. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Ecological Genetics course taken as a special topics course at the College of Charleston. […]
Behind the science: Looking for the population genetic signatures of variable clonality across an environmental gradient
About the author: Will H. Ryan is a postdoc currently working in the Krueger-Hadfield Lab at the University of Alabama at Birmingham on the evolutionary ecology of marine organisms with complex life cycles. In order to better understand mechanisms driving local adaptation and life cycle diversity, he studies how environmental variation interacts with genetic and plastic […]
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: publishing genomic features of parthenogenetic animals
**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: Kamil S. Jaron is a Postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Kamil is interested in genome evolution of species with unusual reproduction. His previous […]
Behind the Science: Approximating the Coalescent Under Facultative 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: 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 […]
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 […]