Showing posts with label species. Show all posts
Showing posts with label species. Show all posts
Friday, April 13, 2018

Monophyletic species, kind of

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A paper by bryologist Brent Mishler and philosopher of biology John Wilkins has just come out, with the title The Hunting of the SnaRC: A Sn...
Thursday, March 23, 2017

Species delimitation using the coalescent model

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For two weeks or so now a new paper has been making the rounds, and we discussed it in our journal club today: Sukumaran J, Knowles LL, 20...
Friday, January 6, 2017

Ochlospecies

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Happy new year, everybody! Although many people are variously fed up with 2016 for the supposedly high number of celebrity deaths, Brexit an...
Sunday, August 21, 2016

Monophyletic species yet again: a recent example

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Recently I received a publication alert for Ja soon to be published manuscript. It gave me reason once more to write about the issue of ...
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Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Species delimitation once more

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Today I attended a kind of mini-symposium featuring five short talks from an ecology focused university department. The main topic was the u...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

'Monophyletic species' once more

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Originally I had decided not to write anything on the "open letter to scientific community" [sic] from about two weeks ago. Beca...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015

CBA Conference 2015, last day

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The final day of the 2015 CBA conference on species delimitation featured another set of very interesting talks. Sally Potter presented her...
Wednesday, April 29, 2015

CBA Conference, day 2

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Continuing with the 2015 CBA conference on species delimitation. Today's first speaker was Sasha Mikheyev, who presented genome seque...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015

CBA Conference 2015, day 1

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Most of this week I am at the 2015 CBA conference Species delimitation in the age of genomics . Although the title suggests that you'd...
Thursday, March 19, 2015

What is the age of a species?

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We had journal club today, and I realised that something that I had always considered quite obvious and logical is not as obvious and logica...
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Thursday, October 3, 2013

Speciation in plants

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On his Sandwalk blog , biochemist Larry Moran recently posted about the many different definitions of the term evolution. Very interesting t...
Tuesday, July 2, 2013

My own take of the species problem

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This is the final post in my short series on species concepts . After discussing a selection of synchronous species concepts, with particula...
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Monday, June 24, 2013

Asynchronous species concepts: internodal and composite

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As indicated before in this series about species concepts , most of them apply only to contemporary organisms or more generally to those exi...
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Monday, June 3, 2013

Fundamental and realized niche

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A short follow-up on the previous post mentioning the Ecological Species Concept: As discussed, ecological niches are not entirely unproble...
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Mopping up the remaining synchronous species concepts

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It is time to pick up writing about species concepts again (other posts in this series can be found under the eponymous tag ). I have dealt ...
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Monday, April 29, 2013

"Monophylogenetic" species

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This continues a series on species. The previous episodes introduced the topic , provided an intuitive classification of species concepts, ...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

Typological species (?) and autapomorphic species

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This post continuing my series on species will perhaps not do its topic full justice, but unfortunately I currently cannot seem to find ...
Monday, April 8, 2013

Genotypic cluster species (and similar)

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This post continues a small series on species that started here and continued with this post . When I wrote about the Biological Species ...
Saturday, March 30, 2013

Biological species and related concepts

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This post is part of a series on species. Read the previous parts here and here . The Biological Species Concept (BSC) is perhaps the mos...
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Saturday, March 23, 2013

Classifying the species concepts

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This post continues a series on species that began with this introduction . So looking over the literature and the aforementioned list of ...