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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...