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12/16/2020

Great post by for on the wonderful work of the WildGenes Laboratory at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland

Bridging the conservation genetics gap to save Britain’s last wild-living felid Posted on December 16, 2020December 9, 2020 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. She went on to undertake ...

12/08/2020

Read the Editor's Choice by Tong et al. on Populus genomics in the latest issue. Or just enjoy the cover. https://academic.oup.com/jhered/issue

11/18/2020

New post in the series by
http://blog.theaga.org/a-devilishly-good-example-of-bridging-the-conservation-genetics-gap/

A devilishly good example of bridging the conservation genetics gap Posted on November 18, 2020October 27, 2020   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. She went on to undertake postdoctora...

11/04/2020

New post by Alexandra DeCandia on a new paper by Arantes et al. in https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esaa024
http://blog.theaga.org/?p=643&preview=true

Hybrid detection in a sea turtle hybridization hotspot in Brazil Posted on November 4, 2020October 27, 2020   About the author: Alexandra DeCandia is a postdoctoral fellow at Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. Her research applies diverse molecular techniques to wildli...

11/02/2020

Registration for the AGA2020 symposium, GENES AS ENVIRONMENT, closes tonight!

Indirect genetic effects (IGE) are genetic effects of an individual on the trait values of other individuals in the same species.  These effects are also known as social genetic effects and associative genetic effects.  Although the concept first arose in the agricultural genetics literature in th...

10/29/2020

Check out more on the genetics of these whales in Carroll et al.'s recent article in JHered 111-3.

Today the southern right whale genome was released. It is a combination of chromosome length reads from a South Georgia whale and shorter, higher quality reads from an Argentinean whale. So not only do southern right whales move between South Georgia and South America, their genomes have combined to provide an amazing tool to help in their conservation. Read more at: https://www.dnazoo.org/post/navigating-the-popularity-trap
This was made possible with help from Parwinder Kaur, Mark Yandell, Michael S. Campbell, Brian Dalley, Edgar J. Hernandez, Barry Moore, Andrea Chirife, Matias Di Martino, Mariano Sironi, Luciano O. Valenzuela, Marcela Uhart, Victoria J. Rowntree, Guy D. Eroh, Sancy A. Leachman and Jon Seger, Jen Jackson, Amy Bader Kennedy, Matt S Leslie, Artur Andriolo, Susie Calderan, Russell Leaper, Emilie Nicoline Stepien and Emma Carroll

Photo taken under New Zealand Department of Conservation Permit

10/28/2020

Another recent post on by EECG-awardee on s*x chromosomes in reptiles
http://blog.theaga.org/this-is-their-year-2020-findings-shed-new-light-on-s*x-chromosome-evolution-in-skinks-and-their-close-relatives/ from a new
lab paper in https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esaa007
Freely available.

Abstract. Squamate reptiles (lizards, snakes, and amphibians) are an outstanding group for studying s*x chromosome evolution—they are old, speciose, geographic

10/28/2020

New post by Frank Stearns on http://blog.theaga.org/haemophilus-influenzae-restriction-enzymes-and-genome-sequencing/ and some landmark discoveries that influence how we work today.

Haemophilus influenzae, Restriction Enzymes, and Genome Sequencing Posted on October 28, 2020October 27, 2020   About the author: Frank Stearns is an Adjunct Professor teaching Genetics and a writing course on Science Communication. He is interested in adaptation and speciation genetics and in the ...

10/14/2020

New post on by
in the from 's Principles of Scientific Investigation course on https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esy033
http://blog.theaga.org/gene-culture-coevolution-in-humpback-whales/

Gene-culture coevolution in humpback whales Posted on October 14, 2020October 8, 2020   Aisha O’ Connor wrote this post as part of Dr. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield’s Principles of Scientific Investigation course at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Aisha is a non-thesis Masters student in the ...

10/07/2020

New post by Aaron Shafer on on a paper in led by
http://blog.theaga.org/nature-versus-nurture-estimating-heritability-of-deer-antlers-and-body-size/

Abstract. Estimating heritability (h2) is required to predict the response to selection and is useful in species that are managed or farmed using trait informa

09/30/2020

New post on by Angie Bradley http://blog.theaga.org/what-role-do-pedigrees-play-in-the-preservation-of-the-galapagos-giant-tortoise/ from an article by Miller et al. in a tortoise-rich issue https://academic.oup.com/jhered/issue/109/6

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