The AGA, Journal of Heredity, and CATS: Part 5, the 1940s
Did you know that the AGA has a long history of publishing about cats? Not just the beloved felines that have commandeered many homes and communities...
The AGA, Journal of Heredity, and CATS: Part 4, The Saga of Hairless Cats
Did you know that the AGA has a long history of publishing about cats? Not just the beloved felines that have commandeered many homes and communities...
The AGA, Journal of Heredity, and CATS: Part 3, the early 1930s: Siamese cats and two-faced kittens
Did you know that the AGA has a long history of publishing about cats? Not just the beloved felines that have commandeered many homes and communities...
The AGA, Journal of Heredity, and CATS: Part 2, the 1920s
Did you know that the AGA has a long history of publishing about cats? Not just the beloved felines that have commandeered many homes and communities...
The AGA, Journal of Heredity, and CATS: Part 1, the 1910s
About the Author Miranda Wade received her B.S. in Biological Science from Colorado State University and her dual PhD in Integrative Biology and...
SEA Awardee RADCamp Announcement
The American Genetic Association grants awards each year to it’s members for support of special events that advance the mission of AGA, particularly...
AGA Elections 2025: Candidates
The 2025 AGA Council elections are here! Members should receive their ballots via email. Voting is open through 22 December, 2025. AGA Presidential...
AGA Special Event Award Supporting ConGen 2025 in South Africa
Population Genomics Data Analysis Course & Workshop Themes : Population Genomics, Molecular Ecology, Conservation Genetics. Understanding Population...
Survey of Scientists Reveals Disruptions to Environmental Research and Training Following January 2025 Policy Changes
Study of Nearly 1,400 Scientists Documents Impacts on Food Security, Disease Research, and Environmental Monitoring A comprehensive survey of...
The long tail on a pandemic project, and staying motivated during trying times
About the Author Dr. Elizabeth M. Lombardi is an evolutionary ecologist and postdoc at the University of Minnesota Duluth. She works on plant-virus...
EECG Embarkation: Adaptation to mitonuclear discordance across repeated contact zones in a North American rodent
About the author Ben Wiens is a Ph.D. candidate in the Mammal Division of the Biodiversity Institute at the University of Kansas, working in Dr....
Special Event Award: Ontario Ecology, Ethology, and Evolution Colloquium (OE3C 2025)
About the Blog Authors OE3C volunteers (left to right): Top: Marcus Gauthier, AJ Deneka, Emilie Gagnon, Mel Beaudin, Caroline Grela, and Matthew...
EECG Embarkation: How a California Skink Could Unlock the Secrets of Animal Coloration
About the Blog Author Author Photo: Here’s Ben very excited after finally catching a rare blue-tailed population of his study species. Dr. Benjamin...
EECG Embarkation: Studying the interplay of selection and recombination shaping the genomes of warbler hybrids
About the Blog Author Laura Céspedes Arias (she/her) is a PhD candidate in the Committee on Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago and a...
EECG Embarkation: Disentangling evolutionary and conservation genomics questions using ‘time series museomics’ in the California Channel Island deer mouse
About the Author Madeleine Becker (she/her) is a PhD candidate at the Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation , George Mason University, and a...
EECG Embarkation: Testing the conservation value of range-edge populations: local adaptation, genetic load, and inbreeding in wild lupine
About the Author Cameron So (he/him) is a PhD candidate in Profs. Anna Hargreaves and Daniel Schoen ’s labs in the Department of Biology at McGill...
Special Event Award: Fourth Marine Mammal Genomics Workshop (G4)
Fourth Marine Mammal Genomics Workshop (G4) Top left to right: Keynote speakers Dr Phil Morin and Dr Sergio Nigenda-Morales. Bottom left to right:...
Symposium Snippets from #AGA2024: JHered Outstanding Student Paper Awardee
Welcome to #AGA2024!! Here we will share some bits, pieces, and anecdotes from this year’s presidential symposium! Our president Beth Shapiro put...
Day 3 Symposium Snippets from #AGA2024 Part 4
Welcome to #AGA2024!! Here we will share some bits, pieces, and anecdotes from this year’s presidential symposium! Our president Beth Shapiro put...
Day 3 Symposium Snippets from #AGA2024 Part 3
Welcome to #AGA2024!! Here we will share some bits, pieces, and anecdotes from this year’s presidential symposium! Our president Beth Shapiro put...
Day 3 Symposium Snippets from #AGA2024 Part 2
Welcome to #AGA2024!! Here we will share some bits, pieces, and anecdotes from this year’s presidential symposium! Our president Beth Shapiro put...
Day 3 Symposium Snippets from #AGA2024 Part 1
Welcome to #AGA2024!! Here we will share some bits, pieces, and anecdotes from this year’s presidential symposium! Our president Beth Shapiro put...
Day 2 Symposium Snippets from #AGA2024 Part 2 & 3
Welcome to #AGA2024!! Here we will share some bits, pieces, and anecdotes from this year’s presidential symposium! Our president Beth Shapiro put...
Day 2 Symposium Snippets from #AGA2024 Part 1
Welcome to #AGA2024!! Here we will share some bits, pieces, and anecdotes from this year’s presidential symposium! Our president Beth Shapiro put...
Day 1 Symposium Snippets from #AGA2024
Welcome to #AGA2024!! Here we will share some bits, pieces, and anecdotes from this year’s presidential symposium! Our president Beth Shapiro put...
The Hitherto Reduced Representation Population Geneticist’s Guide to Genome Annotation
Or, one scientist’s descent into (further) madness About the author Miranda Wade received her B.S. in Biological Science from Colorado State...
A tale of twelve tries: an EECG Epilogue
About the author Miranda Wade received her B.S. in Biological Science from Colorado State University and her dual PhD in Integrative Biology and...
Announcing the 2024 EECG Research Award Recipients
11 graduate students and postdoctoral researchers receive funding from the American Genetic Association.
EECG Embarkation 2024: GRINFISH. Genomics of Reindhartius hippoglossoides on Inshore Fisheries
About the author Daniel Estévez-Barcia is a postdoctoral researcher at the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources working in collaboration with...
EECG Extension: Same questions, same region, different system
About the author Shelby Tisinai is a PhD Candidate in the Busch Lab at Washington State University . She is currently using molecular techniques to...
EECG Embarkation 2024: Microgeographic adaptation and landscape connectivity in two anoles from the small, environmentally heterogeneous island of St. Martin
About the author Michael Yuan (he/him) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Biodiversity Science and Sustainability at the California...
Best Student Paper 2024: Killer whales that once cooperatively hunted whales with whalers are likely extinct
About the author, our 2024 Best Student Paper Awardee: Isabella M. Reeves is a PhD Candidate in evolutionary ecology based at Flinders University....
Meet the Council: Dr. Brendan J. Pinto
Check out his website and Bluesky (@drpintothe2nd.bsky.social). Can you provide an overview of your background and experience in evolutionary...
A dragon a day keeps the blues away (maybe)
About the Author Miranda Wade received her B.S. in Biological Science from Colorado State University and her dual PhD in Integrative Biology and...
EECG Extension: Returning to Curaçao during a coral bleaching event
About the Blog Author The Author. Photo credit: Rita Grunberg. Dr. Jennifer Hoey is an evolutionary ecologist and Postdoctoral Researcher in the...
EECG Epilogue: Species differences in hormonally mediated gene expression underlie the evolutionary loss of sexually dimorphic coloration in Sceloporus lizards
About the Author Chris Robinson (he/him) is a PhD candidate in Bob Cox’s lab at the University of Virginia . His interests lay in how hormones...
Behind the Scientist: An Interview with Kim Scribner
About the Scientist Kim Scribner is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife and Department of Integrative Biology at...
A conference abroad: Global Invertebrates Genomics Alliance (GIGA) V meeting in Cartegena, Colombia
About the author Dylan in the field. Copyright Dylan Comb Dylan Comb is a fisheries research associate at Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute (GMGI)...
AGA Travel Scholarship Award for the fifth Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance Conference
About the author Emily Giles is a Phd Candidate at the Universidad Astral de Chile . Her work involves evaluating the contributions of evolutionary...
Behind the Scientist: An Interview with Shawn Narum
About the Scientist Shawn Narum is the Chief Scientist of the Fishery Science Department in the Hagerman Genetics Lab at the Columbia River...
Ne curiosity about effective population size?
About the authors: Miranda Wade received her B.S. in Biological Science from Colorado State University and her dual PhD in Integrative Biology and...
Conference catch-up: Memories of Mexico – Agavoideae Conference and Genotyping By Sequencing Workshop
About the blog author: Dr Christopher (Chris) Irwin Smith is an evolutionary ecologist, a Professor of Biology at Willamette University in Salem,...
Behind the Science: Beached bones capture genetic diversity of pre-whaling populations
About the author Angie Sremba is an Assistant Professor (Sr Res) at the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Ecosystem Research Studies at Oregon...
AGA Special Event Award: XV ReGeneC workshop in Patagonia Subantarctic, the southernmost workshop sponsored by the AGA
About the Blog Author ReGeneC , La Red Latinoamericana de Genética para la Conservación (or in English, The Latin American Conservation Genetics...
Subspecies… They Matter! The Tale of the Rough Footed Mud Turtle
About the author: Brinkley Thornton wrote this blog for Dr. Krueger-Hadfield’s Fall 2022 Ecological Genetics course. Brinkley is currently a graduate...
EECG Embarkation: Mito-nuclear coevolution in the Savannah sparrow, a species with deeply-divergent and broadly sympatric mitochondrial lineages
About the Author Dr. Phred Benham is a post-doctoral researcher at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California Berkeley with Dr. Rauri...
EECG Embarkation: Mix ingredients, bake for a few million years: an evo-devo recipe for studying phenotypic evolution
About the blog author The author cooking with butterflies. Dr Luca Livraghi is an evolutionary-developmental biologist and Post-Doc at George...
EECG Embarkation: Testing genomic mechanisms and consequences of species persistence in rediscovered amphibians
Kyle Jaynes holding a Jambato Harlequin frog ( Atelopus ignescens ) in the field in 2019 (credit: Sarah Fitzpatrick). About the author Kyle Jaynes...
From the Field: An Exploration of Field Research
About the blog author James Walts (He/Him/His) is an accelerated bachelor’s/master’s (ABM) student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham . He is...
AGA Special Event Award: 53rd Ontario Ecology, Ethology, and Evolution Colloquium – OE3C 2023
About the Blog authors Joseane Moreira do Nascimento is a postdoc and Jorden Maglov is a PhD student, both from the Grbic lab at Western University....
EECG Embarkation: Understanding the genomic basis of adaptive radiation
About the author Dr. Jae Young Choi was a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Dr. Michael Puruggan at New York University. His research focuses on...
EECG Embarkation: Tree speciation in a Riparian Zone—the role of disease-resistance genes in the evolution of isolating barriers
About the Author: Hossein Madhani is a second-year Ph.D. student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas , where...
EECG Embarkation: The genetic basis of divergent reproductive strategies in three-spined stickleback
About the Blog Author: Colby Behrens is a PhD candidate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the lab of Dr. Alison Bell . Colby is...
EECG Embarkation: Measuring local adaptation through constitutive gene expression
About the Blog Author Shelby Tisinai is a PhD Candidate with Dr. Jeremiah Busch at Washington State University. She is currently using molecular...
EECG Embarkation: Reefscape genomics: Mapping hybridization and adaptation across the Caribbean coral reef slope
About the Blog Author Dr. Jennifer Hoey is an evolutionary ecologist and NSF-OCE Postdoctoral Fellow in the Reefscape Genomics Lab at the California...
EECG Embarkation: How connected are oceanic islands? The trans-oceanic journeys of the island-hopping Hibiscus sect. Lilibiscus.
About the author Brock Mashburn is a PhD Candidate at Washington University in St. Louis and the Missouri Botanical Garden, working in the labs of...
Behind the Science: Making the most of a cancelled field season
About the author Julia Harenčár is an evolutionary biologist passionate about combining ecology with genomics to understand plants. She is a...
Behind the Science: Untangling biparental mitochondrial inheritance in bivalves
About the Author Dr. Chase H. Smith is an evolutionary biologist and a leader in understanding aspects of the biology, ecology, evolution, and...
EECG Epilogue: Population genomics reveals a single introduction of the invasive white pine sawfly, Diprion similis.
About the Blog Author: Jeremy is an evolutionary ecologist and NSF postdoctoral fellow working with Catherine Linnen at the U niversity of Kentucky...
From the field: Midway Atoll, from one battle to the next
About the author: Taylor Williams (she/her) is a Ph.D. student in Dr. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Evolutionary Ecology lab at The University of Alabama...
Unlocking the Secrets of the Type D Killer Whale
About the author Emma Luck is an Alaska-based marine scientist and science communicator with experience working with killer whales and other marine...
Tick, Tick…Mutation load?
About the Blog Author : Jade Mellor (she/her) is a PhD student in Dr. Greer Dolby’s lab focusing on evolutionary and conservation genomics in desert...
Friend or Foe? Plant Tumors and the Bacteria Which Cause Them
About the author: Regina Bedgood (she/her) earned her BS in Biology with a minor in Chemistry at UAB and is currently a PhD student in Dr. Karolina...
Annotating Multigene Families in Non-Model Organisms
Andrew Legan is a postdoctoral researcher at the USDA-ARS and University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ. He is a skilled science communicator and can be...
Evolutionary Forecasting — How Predictable Is Evolution?
Thomas Blankers is assistant professor of evolutionary ecology at the University of Amsterdam. He is interested in divergent evolution and...
Meet The Blog’s New Associate Editor – Hayden Waller
The blog is growing! With the new year comes a new associate editor: yours truly . As such, I’d just like to take this opportunity to say hello to...
From the Field: A Summer in the San Juans
About the Blog Author: Alexis Oetterer wrote this post as part of Dr. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Scientific Communication Course at the University of...
A walk on the beach, or an opportunity for great discovery?
About the blog author: Brinkley Thornton wrote this blog for Dr. Krueger-Hadfield’s Spring 2022 Science Communication course. Brinkley is currently a...
From the Field: Backyard Phycology
About the blog author: Sarah Shainker Connelly ( @SarahShainker ) wrote this post as part of Dr. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Scientific Communication...
Kin selection: how can selection drive the evolution of cell suicide in unicells?
About the Blog Author: Marcelo Barreto Filho has a bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar). He has...
How can glow-in-the-dark stars help us understand plant immunity?
About the blog author: Regina Bedgood (she/her) wrote this blog post as part of Dr. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Science Communication Course at the...
EECG Embarkation: Experiences in early life influence development of future phenotypes
**The AGA grants EECG Research Awards each year to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research,...
EECG Embarkation: Genetics of a unique wintering strategy in Sorex araneus
**The AGA grants EECG Research Awards each year to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research,...
EECG Embarkation: Evolutionary genetics of genetic accommodation
**The AGA grants EECG Research Awards each year to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research,...
EECG Embarkation: The role of gene expression in avian sexual dimorphisms
**The AGA grants EECG Research Awards each year to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research,...
From the Field: Snow Algal Science
ABOUT THE BLOG AUTHORS: The Kodner Lab is an enigmatic group studying alpine snow algae in the Washington area. Dr. Robin Kodner, our intrepid...
EECG Embarkation: The Effects of Microplastic Exposure Across Development, Generations, and Molecular Levels
**The AGA grants EECG Research Awards each year to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research,...
EECG Embarkation: Waken the ferine strain—a strain-resolved investigation of host-microbiome symbiosis in a feral hindgut fermenter
**The AGA grants EECG Research Awards each year to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research,...
EECG Embarkation: Worlds within islands – deciphering the evolutionary mechanisms driving gut microbiome biogeography using an oceanic island system
**The AGA grants EECG Research Awards each year to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research,...
EECB Embarkation: Continuing the story of Evo-Devo – The changing and unchanging parts of the metazoan developmental program.
**The AGA grants EECG Research Awards each year to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research,...
EECG Embarkation: Functional characterization of olfactory receptors in the context of their radiation in birds
**The AGA grants EECG Research Awards each year to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research,...
EECG Embarkation: Assembling the missing regions of the genome to understand the evolution of sex chromosomes in threespine stickleback fish.
**The AGA grants EECG Research Awards each year to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research,...
EECG Embarkation: The ghost of oysters past – museomics of an extinct oyster population and the search for survivors
**The AGA grants EECG Research Awards each year to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research,...
EECG Embarkation: Do endangered and sick ducks have lower diversity in immune genes?
**The AGA grants EECG Research Awards each year to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research,...
Behind the Science: Lessons from lamprey
About the blog author: Allison K. Miller is a conservation biologist and PhD candidate in the Gemmell Lab at the University of Otago doing research...
EECG Epilogue: Using machine learning to elevate the eastern diamondback rattlesnake genome
**The AGA grants EECG Research Awards each year to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research,...
Conference catch-up: Online genomics meetings in late 2021 by Biodiversity Genomics and GIGA
About the blog author: Dr. Jose (Joe) Lopez is a molecular biologist, professor at Nova Southeastern University and current AGA council member. He...
AGA 2022 President’s Introduction and Symposium (coming up!)
About the Blog Author: Dr. Lila Fishman is a Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Montana-Missoula. Her research focuses on...
Behind the Science: Citizen efforts rediscovered ghost genetics
About the Blog Author: Dr. Bridgett vonHoldt is an Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. She founded the...
EECG Epilogue: Characterizing and linking variation in admixture and secondary chemistry across a juniper hybrid zone and Sierra Nevada – Great Basin Desert ecotone
**The AGA grants EECG Research Awards each year to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research,...
Conservation genetics training in a virtual world: a reflection on ConGen 2021
About the blog authors: Annie Guillaume is a PhD candidate working in the Laboratory of Geographic Information Systems ( LASIG ) at the École...
Behind the Science: Porifera genomics, the trickiness of an early emerging taxon
About the blog author: Yvain Desplat graduated with Master of Science from Nova Southeastern University in Florida (August, 2020). His thesis work...
EECG Epilogue: Gut Reactions in a Wild World
**The AGA grants EECG Research Awards each year to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research,...
Behind the Science: Through the Rapids with Chinook Salmon Run-timing Genetics
About the Blog Author: Dr. Tasha Thompson is a conservation geneticist and post-doctoral research associate at Michigan State University in the lab...
Behind the Science: Implications of Large-Effect Loci for Conservation
About the blog author: Devon Pearse (he/him) is a research geneticist at the NOAA Fisheries Southwest Fisheries Science Center working as part of the...
Behind the Science: What happens when environments coevolve?
**This post is a part of the series on the 2020 AGA Presidential Symposium – Genes as Environment: Indirect Genetic Effects on Evolution,...
The Interactant Covariance: Who interacts with whom?
**This post is a part of the series on the 2020 AGA Presidential Symposium – Genes as Environment: Indirect Genetic Effects on Evolution,...
Contextualizing IGE: A Call For Empirical Studies
**This post is a part of the series on the 2020 AGA Presidential Symposium – Genes as Environment: Indirect Genetic Effects on Evolution,...
Behind the Science: Have you read that great paper?
About the blog author: Stew Grant has seen both sides of publishing research articles, as a writer and as an editor. He has about 120 publications in...
EECG Extension: Diving into a hijacked brain – effects of parasitism on threespine stickleback behaviour and brain morphology
**The AGA grants EECG Research Awards each year to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research,...
EECG Extension: The little plant that could – does epigenetics explain how a freshwater plant lives a salty life?
**The AGA grants EECG Research Awards each year to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research,...
EECG Epilogue: Schistocephalus solidus as a puppet master – Can this parasite manipulate the behavior of its threespine stickleback host?
**The AGA grants EECG Research Awards each year to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research,...
EECG Epilogue: Genomic investigations of big fish in a really big lake
**The AGA grants EECG Research Awards each year to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research,...
Happy Holidays!
Behind the Science: The Proof is in the Pedigree
About the Blog Author: Dr. Oliver Ryder ( @frozenzoo ) is the Kleberg Endowed Director of Conservation Genetics at Beckman Center for Conservation...
Symposium Snippets: A call to action, how is this realized?
About the Blog Author: Jacob Green (he/him) is a PhD student in the Puritz Lab of Marine Evolutionary Ecology at the University of Rhode Island. His...
Symposium Snippets: a little insight into my favorite bits of the AGA2021
About the Blog Author : Emily Cavill is a PhD fellow in the Gilbert Research Group at the GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her PhD...
Living Rainbows: Exploring the Genetics of Coloration in Birds
About the Blog Author: Brinkley Thornton is a current accelerated bachelor’s to master’s student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and will...
Symposium Snippets: Ms. Mason Goes to Snowbird: An Undergraduate’s First Symposium
About the Blog Author: Noelle Mason is an undergraduate at Colorado State University studying biology and conservation. She works with Dr. Kristen...
A ‘Cen-sational’ Post
About the Blog Author : Stacy Krueger-Hadfield is an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham ....
Symposium Snippets: Your favorite conservation story
About the Blog Author: Dr. Jessica Judson is a postdoctoral researcher at Michigan State University working with Dr. Sarah Fitzpatrick. She recently...
Behind the Science: Recombination and the origin of species
About the Blog Author: Sheela Turbek is a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Kristen Ruegg’s lab at Colorado State University. Her graduate research at...
From the field: Is this headache seasickness or just seaweed genetics?
About the Blog Author: Taylor Williams (she/her) is a Masters student in Dr. Heather Spalding’s lab at the College of Charleston. Her undergraduate...
Sperm storage as a novel phenomenon in Tree Skinks
About the Blog Author: Alexis Oetterer received her BSc in Biology from Truman State University and is currently a lab tech in Dr. Stacy...
AGA 2021 President’s Symposium coming up!
One of the great perks of being President of the American Genetics Association is that you get to organize the President’s Symposium ! An opportunity...
Two Ecomorphs Diverged by a Lake – Do Patterns of Multiple Paternity Follow Suit?
About the Blog Author: Nicole Conner is a Researcher III at the University of Alabama at Birmingham . Her thesis work at UAB was focused on...
The New Golden Age of Evolutionary Biology
About the Author: Hayden Waller is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University. He works with Hawaiian...
Behind the Science: Fire boosts butterfly genetic diversity
About the authors : Dr. Breeanne Jackson is the Director of the Yosemite and Sequoia Field Stations at University of California Merced , and served...
Behind the Science: Bringing a study of genetic adaptation in highland hummingbirds to print
About the Author: Marisa Lim is a bioinformatics training postdoctoral scholar at the University of California at Davis. Her past research has...
Behind the Science: Male-biased mutation rates in snakes
About the Author: Drew Schield ( @drschield ) is an NSF postdoctoral fellow working in Dr. Rebecca Safran’s lab at University of Colorado Boulder. He...
Behind the Science: Capitalizing on NGS to Investigate Adaptations to Global Change in Pikas
About the Author: Katherine Solari is a Postdoctoral researcher and the Associate Director of Genomics for the Program for Conservation Genomics at...
Behind the Science: Genes, behavior, and chipping away at how they are linked
About the Author : Dr. Christopher Cunningham is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Entomology at the University of Georgia. Chris is...
EECG Embarkation: More than meets the rattle: What can sensory systems tell us about venom evolution?
**The AGA grants EECG Research Awards each year to graduate and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research, where...
EECG Embarkation: Uncovering the sources of adaptive genetic variation in wild tomato
**The AGA grants EECG Research Awards each year to graduate and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research, where...
EECG Embarkation: Genetic basis and spatial variability of climate change adaptation in the common morning glory
**The AGA grants EECG Research Awards each year to graduate and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research, where...
EECG Embarkation: Listening to the Laupala
**The AGA grants EECG Research Awards each year to graduate and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research, where...
Behind the science: The value of diversity is not new to conservation biologists: Applying this concept to our scientific community might be.
About the authors: Norah Saarman attended ConGen as a student in 2017 and as an instructor in 2019 while a postdoc at Yale University. She is...
EECG Embarkation: Seasonal variation in amphibian resistance to chytrid fungi – The project.
**The AGA grants EECG Research Awards each year to graduate and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research, where...
EECG Embarkation: Pairing Behaviour and Genetics to Uncover the Secret Social Lives of Lizards
**The AGA grants EECG Research Awards each year to graduate and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research, where...
EECG Embarkation: Investigating the genomic architecture of speciation via reinforcement
**The AGA grants EECG Research Awards each year to graduate and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research, where...
EECG Embarkation: High country viruses: landscape genomics and plant virus diversity in the Rocky Mountains
**The AGA grants EECG Research Awards each year to graduate and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research, where...
EECG Embarkation: The right pace of life: Understanding genomic underpinnings of life-history variation
**The AGA grants EECG Research Awards each year to graduate and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research, where...
EECG Embarkation: a maternal brain—investigating neuroplasticity associated with cooperative behaviors in bumble bees
**The AGA grants EECG Research Awards each year to graduate and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research, where...
EECG Embarkation: Going back in time—using population genomics to investigate demographics of a host shift in an invasive insect
**The AGA grants EECG Research Awards each year to graduate and post-doctoral researchers who are at a critical point in their research, where...
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...
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...
Behind the Science: Researching the so-called “zombie deer disease”
*** Dr. Perrin-Stowe was awarded the Stephen J. O’Brien Award for best student paper published in the Journal of Heredity *** About the Author:...
No Hair Dye? No Problem: How CRISPER/Cas 9 alters fur color
About the author: Dominique Weddle wrote this post as a part Dr. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Evolutionary Biology course at the University of Alabama at...
Do male crickets create symphonies?
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...
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...
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 :...
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:...
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...
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:...
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:...
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:...
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:...
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:...
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:...
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:...
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:...
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:...
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:...
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...
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...
Ice Age processes shape present-day patterns of kelp biodiversity
About the author: Sarah Shainker ( @SarahShainker ) completed a B.S. in Marine Biology at the College of Charleston before serving as a Peace Corps...
Using genetics to conserve life history strategies in California steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
About the author: Dr. Alexandra DeCandia is a postdoctoral fellow at Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. Her research...
NOT Seeing Double: The Gecko Epiphany
About the author: Christel Whitehead wrote this post as a project for Dr. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Fundamentals of Scientific Investigation course at...
Marching beetles – dispersal and epistasis
About the author: FRANK STEARNS is an Adjunct Professor teaching Genetics and a writing course on Science Communication. He is interested in...
Do deepwater snappers have wanderlust or remain close to home?
About the author: Sabrina Heiser (she/her/hers) is a PhD Candidate in Dr. Charles D. Amsler’s lab at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her...
What does the history of human hybridization share with some of our closest relatives?
About the author: Marcella is an NSF postdoctoral fellow currently working in David Toews’ lab on the genetics of speciation and hybridization. Her...
Presidential symposium contributors speak on the present and future of Indirect Genetic Effects
About the author : Sarah McPeek is a PhD candidate with Dr. Butch Brodie at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA. Her research focuses...
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....
Chronic wasting disease and its threat for endangered deer species
About the author: Nisha Dwivedi a conservation biology masters student at Lund University. As part of her thesis project she is currently exploring...
Quest for the wing-dimorphism locus in carabids
About the author: Zoë De Corte (she/her/they/them) has a strong passion for evolution, genomics and bioinformatics. They are a PhD candidate in the...
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...
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...
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...
Symposium Snippets: AGA Presidential Symposium Genes as Environments Day One
Meet the bloggers: Mitchel Daniel is a postdoctoral fellow at Florida State University. He is an evolutionary and behavioral ecologist, and is...
A devilishly good example of bridging the conservation genetics gap
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....
AGA 2020 – blogging!
Are you registered for the online AGA Presidential Symposium? We are looking for interested participants to write short snippets about talks at the...
Hybrid detection in a sea turtle hybridization hotspot in Brazil
About the author: Alexandra DeCandia is a postdoctoral fellow at Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. Her research applies...
Haemophilus influenzae, Restriction Enzymes, and Genome Sequencing
About the author: Frank Stearns is an Adjunct Professor teaching Genetics and a writing course on Science Communication. He is interested in...
This is their year! 2020 findings shed new light on sex chromosome evolution in skinks and their close relatives
Brendan J. Pinto (he/him) received a PhD in August (2020) in the Gamble Lab . Currently he is a research associate of zoology at the Milwaukee Public...
Gene-culture coevolution in humpback whales
Aisha O’ Connor wrote this post as part of Dr. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield ’s Principles of Scientific Investigation course at the University of Alabama...
Nature versus nurture: estimating heritability of deer antlers and body size
Aaron Shafer is an Assistant Professor at Trent University, Canada. Their research uses genomic and bioinformatics tools to characterize adaptive and...
What role do pedigrees play in the preservation of the Galapagos giant tortoise?
About the author : Angie Bradley wrote this post as part of Dr. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield ‘s Principles of Scientific Investigation course . Angie is a...
Habitat Fragmentation of the Catfish Hemibagrus spilopterus: Dammed If We Do
About the author : Rose Ferguson wrote this post as part of Dr. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield ‘s Principles of Scientific Investigation course . She is...
Bridge over troubled water: getting across the conservation genetics gap
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....
Parasite Tagging: A Surprising Identification Strategy in Ecological Research
Say you are studying a population of anadromous fish. These fish live in the ocean and swim upriver to spawn, with each fish returning to the river...
Genetic and epigenetic relationships across evolutionary and ecological timescales in Icelandic stickleback
The ability of organisms to colonize or adapt to new and changing environments is of critical interest in biology, especially considering the threats...
Swiss army knife genetics: Does pleiotropy do all the adaptation job in Mimulus guttatus?
It is not a simple task to adapt to a new environment. An organism needs to acclimate itself to multiple new conditions, from differences in climate...
Mind the gap: why is genetics often missing from conservation?
In this series, written specially for the AGA blog, Dr Taylor will be exploring the gap between conservation genetics research and conservation...
It’s all about scale – evolution’s predictability (or lack thereof) across different spatial scales
In the late 20 th century, a popular science communicator named Stephen Jay Gould asked a deceptively simple question: If we turned back the tape of...
An ode to the mudosphere
Field work has been cancelled the world over due to COVID-19. Over at The Molecular Ecologist, the contributors curated some photos from our exploits...
What if by overestimating the complexity of the genomic basis of a trait, we’re underestimating the complexity of its evolutionary dynamics?
The genomic bases, or architectures, of complex traits are… complex. But what if by overestimating the complexity of some aspects of the genomic...
A horse of a different color patterning mutation
Connecting genotypes to the complex phenotypes they produce is a fundamental goal of genetics. Variation in coat color pigmentation, partly due to...
Is European bison really back?
Humans constantly interact with their environment. They modify habitats, transfer species from one place to another, domesticate some species while...
To band or not to band: what drives the expression of fashion accessories in female pipefish?
“Tale as old as time. Female chooses male. Male is large in size. Male has weaponry. Unsurprisingly! Male’s ornamentation. Male’s behavior. Female...
Studying the genetics of migration using hybrids from a migratory divide
Every spring, nature enthusiasts are excited for another bird migration made evident by the countless posts on social media noting rare warblers...
What happens when hunting history, whale culture, genetics, and an international collaboration work towards a common goal?
Right whales were given their name because they were the right whales to hunt: they swim slowly near the ocean’s surface and make predictable annual...
Surviving cyanide – one path or many?
Cyanide is deadly – to most things. In high enough doses it blocks the body’s ability to create energy by interrupting cellular respiration. But even...
Surviving Cyanide – Part One
Eating is dangerous. Are you drinking a glass of wine? Perhaps planning pesto for dinner? The very flavors that attract us to those foods come from...
Bioenergetic costs of asexuality – does the mitochondrion play a role in maintaining sex?
Among vertebrate animals, sexual reproduction is ubiquitous. But why? Asexual populations should outcompete their sexual neighbors (Maynard Smith,...
Revealing ancient hybridization’s role in diversification
Hybridization between closely related species is a rapidly emerging field of interest for evolutionary biologists, and the more scientists look for...
What can we learn about marine mammals from a liter of water?
With a new set of tools focused on environmental DNA, or eDNA, we can learn a lot! eDNA approaches are built on the premise that organisms leave a...
Mountains high … valleys wide … can keep me from getting to you
The Sierra Nevada range towers over the Basin below, cutting the skyline with a jagged edge as far as the eye can see. Mountain ranges, like the...
Reproductive Isolation and the ‘Hockey Assist’ – How a shift to self-compatible mating systems can bring about reproductive isolation
The first steps in the process of speciation are a bit paradoxical when you think about it…how does one freely interbreeding species make the...
The difference 70 miles can make
A white-footed mouse ( Peromyscus leucopus ). By Charles Homler, CC-BY-SA 3. Adapting to temperature is critical for any organism. Thus, many...
What does it take to be extreme? Insights from toxic springs in Southern Mexico
Taking a hike through the Villa Luz Natural Park in Southern Mexico, you’ll quickly find yourself enraptured. As you cross the steel bridge that...
Jumping genes help resolve obscure species relationships
Figuring out evolutionary relationships between species is hard enough when they diversified recently, but what if they rapidly diversified many...
Three’s not a crowd! Does genetic variation across a tri-species hybrid zone respond to environmental differences across the landscape?
Hybrid zones elucidate the barriers to interspecific reproduction, the raw material for speciation, and thus are unparalleled resources for...
Oversalted: How does a tiny floating plant cope with urban runoff?
Humans are globally redistributing salt. Soils ( Rengasamy 2006 ) and freshwater ( Dugan et al. 2017 ) are becoming saltier, while the ocean is...
Do marine species of a fin flock together?
A glass sponge, the Venus Flower Basket In every biology textbook, Darwin’s finches remain a staple introduction to the concept of speciation and...
Where did you come from, where did you go? Where did you come from Helianthus annuus L.?
(feature image: The wild sunflower growing by the roadside. Credit: Matt Lavin from Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic...
Happy Darwin Day 2020!
Happy Darwin Day! It seems as auspicious a day as any to introduce myself. My name is Stacy Krueger-Hadfield and I am an assistant professor at the...
Will the South China tiger make its way back to the wild again?
Photo credit: Yifu Liu. In the provinces of South China, there once roamed a unique subspecies of tiger. The South China tiger ( Panthera tigris...
A tale of two foxes: The genetic story of the Sierra Nevada red fox
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...
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...
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...
Pelagic to Coastal: The Expansion of Bottlenose Dolphins
We are worried about how climate change will affect distributions today, but how did climatic changes affect distributions in the past? Around 20,000...
Well-Behaved Cicadas, Messy Symbionts: an Audio Story about Cicada Mitochondrial Genomes
Listen to the audio story: /uploads/2019/05/Piotr-Lukasik-Cicada-Audio-Story.mp3 “One of the most interesting,...
In a naturally-replicated experiment, cacti and flies stick together
If you were to look closely at a prickly pear in mainland western Mexico, chances are you would find a population of flies— Drosophila navojoa , to...
Happy Darwin Day!
Today is Darwin Day! Charles Darwin was born on February 12, 1809. In 1859, he published On the Origin of Species , forever changing how we view the...