April 2013
Kyle O'Connell recieves the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Grant! Congratulations Kyle!
March 2013
The genome of the painted turtle has been published in Genome Biology! (link) Read the press release at UTA here!
Check out an impressive phylogeny of microhylid frogs co-authored by Dr. Jeff Streicher! (link)
February 2013
The genome of the Darwin's finch (Geospiza magnirostris) has been published in BMC Genomics! As thoughtfully observed by Jonathon Eisen, it was published on Darwin's birthday. (link)
October 2012
Castoe et al. present a report for the first snake genomics meeting! (link)
September 2012
Streicher et al. discovered rapid range expansion in the Great Plain narrow-mouthed toad (Gastrophryne olivacea)! (link)
Meik et al. found differences between male and female head shape and diet in the Mexican lance-headed rattlesnakes (Crotalus polystictus)! (link)
Coalescent-based species delimitation - check out our justification in Trends in Ecology and Evolution! (link)
Earlier in 2012
The open letter for three crocodilian genomes is now published in Genome Biology! (link)
Ridenour et al. quantifying physiological and metabolic limits and constraints on parthenogenetick geckos has been accepted to Journal of Evolutionary Biology! (link)
The Anolis lizard genome has been published in Nature! (link)
There are no GC-rich isochores in Anolis - read all about it in our paper in Genome Biology and Evolution (link)
Phylogenetic informativeness of seventy-five protein-coding genes in vertebrates, spear-headed by Jon Fong (link)! It has been selected by the Faculty of 1000!
Nonadaptive evolution of mitochondrial genome size, published in Evolution (link)!