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