Stephens ZD, Lee SY, Faghri F et al. (2015) Big Data: Astronomical or Genomical? PLoS Biology, 13, e1002195. http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002195
Month: July 2015
Salmon adaptive potential and #climatechange (shared papers)
Munoz NJ, Farrell AP, Heath JW, Neff BD (2014) Adaptive potential of a Pacific salmon challenged by climate change. Nature Climate Change, 5, 163–166. http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v5/n2/full/nclimate2473.html
Non-model organism #population #genomics and error correction (shared papers)
Meyer WK, Venkat A, Kermany AR et al. (2015) Evolutionary history inferred from the de novo assembly of a non-model organism, the blue-eyed black lemur. Molecular Ecology, n/a–n/a. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26198179
Marinier E, Brown DG, McConkey BJ (2015) Pollux: platform independent error correction of single and mixed genomes. BMC Bioinformatics, 16, 10. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/16/10
Congrats to @LaboBernatchez alumnus @scott_pavey for starting your Molecular Ecology lab @UNB !
Scott has been instrumental in the Bernatchez Lab for the past four years. Now he will be continuing his research as a PI at University of New Brunswick.
Way to go Scott!
Keep up to date with Scott’s work here:
Population Genetics, Random Forest and Climate Change (recently shared papers)
Berner, D., & Thibert-Plante, X. (2015). How mechanisms of habitat preference evolve and promote divergence with gene flow. Journal of Evolutionary Biology http://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12683
Stephan, J., Stegle, O., & Beyer, A. (2015). A random forest approach to capture genetic effects in the presence of population structure. Nature Communications, 6, 7432. http://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8432
Gotelli, N. J. and Stanton-Geddes, J. (2015), Climate change, genetic markers and species distribution modelling. Journal of Biogeography. doi: 10.1111/jbi.12562
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jbi.12562/abstract
Fish Genomics (recently shared papers) Open Access
New fish genome paper, grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus)
Wang Y, Lu Y, Zhang Y, Ning Z, Li Y, Zhao Q, Lu H, Huang R, Xia X, Feng Q, Liang X, Liu K, Zhang L, Lu T, Huang T, Fan D, Weng Q, Zhu C, Lu Y, Li W, Wen Z, Zhou C, Tian Q, Kang X, Shi M, Zhang W, Jang S, Du F, He S, Liao L, Li Y, Gui B, He H, Ning Z, Yang C, He L, Luo L, Yang R, Luo Q, Liu X, Li S, Huang W, Xiao L, Lin H, Han B, Zhu Z. The draft genome of the grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus) provides insights into its evolution and vegetarian adaptation. Nat Genet. 2015 Jun;47(6):625-31. doi: 10.1038/ng.3280. Epub 2015 May 4.
Riverscapes, landscapes, and biogeography (recently shared papers)
Cañedo-Argüelles M, Boersma KS, Bogan MT et al. (2015) Dispersal strength determines meta-community structure in a dendritic riverine network (R Ladle, Ed,). Journal of Biogeography, 42, 778–790.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jbi.12457/abstract
Bradburd, G. S., Ralph, P. L. and Coop, G. M. (2013), Disentangling the effects of geographic and ecological isolation on genetic differentiation. Evolution, 67: 3258–3273. doi: 10.1111/evo.12193
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/evo.12193/abstract
Wang, I. J. and Bradburd, G. S. (2014), Isolation by environment. Molecular Ecology, 23: 5649–5662. doi: 10.1111/mec.12938
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.12938/abstract
Journal of Experimental Biology Special Issue – Biochemical adaptation : conservation and innovation in the face of environmental change
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/218/12.toc
Within:
Tyler G. Evans (2015) “Considerations for the use of transcriptomics in identifying the ‘genes that matter’ for environmental adaptation” J Exp Biol. Review.
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