Casey Dunn has new commentary up at PNAS on our recently published microRNA paper. Check it out here. Dunn, CW (2014) Reconsidering the phylogenetic utility of miRNA in animals. PNAS.doi:10.1073/pnas.1413545111.
Blog Archives
microRNAs in Phylogenetics
Our paper on the use of microRNAs for phylogenetic inference is out today in the early edition at PNAS. A news story on the paper is also up at Nature, along with a news highlight at PNAS. Fun fact: The turtle…
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Posted in genomics, phylogenetics
Pond Turtles
KCET has a nice story on our recent paper proposing new species boundaries for the western pond turtle.
Mud and Musk Turtles
There’s a nice blog post at scientific american on mud and musk turtles that discusses some of our ongoing work. It’s a nice popular review of a really interesting group of turtles.
TreeThinkers blog
Several colleagues and I recently launched a blog associated with the Bodega Phylogenetics Workshop. Our goal is that it will serve as a forum for informal discussion of topics relating to phylogenetics and comparative methods. We aim to cover new methods, pedagogy,…
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Posted in phylogenetics, teaching
Turtle Genome Released!
HIMB Pauley Program June 2013
Bodega Student Talks
Caroline, Áki, and Mike gave great talks at this year’s Bodega Workshop.
Posted in phylogenetics, travel
Trees in motion
I received a request the other day for one of my old figures that interactively displays the data from my 2010 BMC Biology paper on the growth of phylogenetic knowledge. It was still sitting on my old server space at…
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Posted in informatics, phylogenetics
