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Monday, December 19, 2011
I’ve started posting some Glor Lab images over at flickr. I’m hoping to get more images up this week, including highlights from our 2010 and 2011 expeditions.
I’d love to get your help labeling images because I’ll never get to all them myself. You should be able to comment on specific images and I can then convert these comments into descriptions when appropriate.
Please also let me know if you have any images you’d like to contribute. In addition to field photos, I have one set that includes images from around the lab in Rochester and would love to receive any contributions you guys might have from things like lab meetings, lab parties, or just images of your research.
Thursday, December 8, 2011
For this week’s lab meeting we ask that you bring your own paper. Come with a paper published in the last two months and be prepared to talk about it for 10 minutes or so. I’d like to order food this meeting. Who else is in and what do you want to order?
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
 Fig. 1 from Smadja and Butlin's 2011 Molecular Ecology review. We will continue with the theme of speciation with gene flow this week by reading an insightful review that introduces a new framework for “comparing processes of speciation in the presence of gene flow” by Smadja and Butlin. Molecular Ecology also has a few other early view papers with pertaining to speciation with gene flow for those looking to learn even more (1, 2, 3).
Monday, November 28, 2011
 Audrey working on the cage |  The new cage set up for a female choice experiment |
The new cage for Audrey and Ryane’s behavioural experiments is done and ready to go! Over the next couple of days, they will be putting some real anoles in there to see if they can get them to display in their large, new environment. All very exciting stuff and we’re all eagerly awaiting the results!
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
 The new cage is the clear plastic structure on the left. Frank's arm is coming out of his neck because he moved between the shots stitched together for this panorama. Either that or he has magical cage building powers. Undergraduates Ryane Logsdon, Audrey Kelly, and Frank Chang are working to build a massive cage for use in behavioral experiments. The cage should be finished by the end of the week, but we’ll have to wait to see if it works until after Thanksgiving!
Monday, November 14, 2011
 Image of a Little Greenbul from http://www.birdforum.net/opus/Andropadus_hallae This week’s paper uses the Little Greenbul (an African songbird) to test the contributions of refugial isolation and ecological gradients to evolutionary diversification. The authors of this paper used playback experiments to examine divergence in both song and song response in nature. If you’re not already familiar with previous work on the Little Greenbul, you should check out some of the Smith Lab’s previous work on this species before coming to lab meeting this Friday (e.g., Smith 1997, Stabbekorn & Smith 2002a, 2002b)
Monday, November 7, 2011
 My host and I pose for a shot of the bean on our bike ride to the Field Museum earlier today. Another week of group cleaning the juvenile and baby lizard cages seems to be in order, so I hope folks will make themselves available for that. Sorry I won’t be around to help, but I’ll only be around the lab briefly on Wednesday afternoon between visits to Chicago and Toronto. Chicago has been great so far. My host and I paid a visit to the Field Museum earlier today. I’m hoping to restock our lab coffee supplies with some of Chicago’s finest before returning!
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Since a number of folks are gearing up to do AFLP projects I think a recent paper asking interesting questions using them would be worthwhile reading. We’ll read an early online paper from Molecular Ecology about adaptation and divergence in leaf beetles as well as a recent review on AFLPs to get everyone up to speed on what they are and what you can do with them.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
 Image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/daytona1961/ We’re going to continue on the theme established last week by discussing another paper that uses laboratory experimentation to investigate the evolution of reproductive isolation. Two papers are required reading for this week’s lab meeting. The first is Olsson et al.’s 2004 paper on Haldane’s rule and costs outbreeding in sand lizards. The review paper I mentioned last week by Shilthuizen et al. on Haldane’s Rule in the 21st century is also required reading for this week. Please also be sure to come with new papers to share!
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
 The mountain pine beetle and the damage it is causing to some forests in western Canada (left photo from British Columbia Ministry of Forests and Range/L. Maclaughlan, right photo from denimpine.com) For this Friday’s lab meeting we’ll be discussing a recent paper from Evolution on the evolution of postzygotic reproductive isolation in bark beetles. This paper addresses many of the same topics that Anthony is considering with his experimental hybridization work on Anolis. Those of you unfamiliar with the recent literature on the evolution of postzygotic isolation should also consider reading some additional papers to get up to speed; some suggestions include Schilthuizen et al.’s paper in Heredity on “Haldane’s rule in the 21st century,” Daven Presgraves’s paper on “Darwin and the origin of interspecific incompatibilites“, work from Lynda Delph’s lab at IU on Haldane’s rule in plants, and another paper out of IU by Hahn, Moyle and others on “The contribution of gene movement to the “two rules of speciation.”"
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