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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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 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...
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...
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 ....
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...
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: 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...
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:...
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:...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...