Journal club 31/5/6

Barbara will talk about:

Adaptive genetic complementarity in mate choice coexists with selection
for elaborate sexual traits.
Kevin P. Oh and Alexander V. Badyaev.
Proc. R. Soc. B., FirstCite early online publishing, 2006, pp. 1127-1130.

Anybody up for this one next Wed??

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?id=doi:10.1086/502806

::Felix Zajitschek

Journal club 24/5/06

Up for discussion (don't forget the cookies, Dean :-)

Learned kin recognition cues in a social bird.
Stuart P. Sharp, Andrew McGowan, Matthew J. Wood & Ben J. Hatchwell.
Nature, 434, 2005, pp. 1127-1130.

SCIENCE - Aging

For those of you interested in aging, SCIENCE magazine has created the
Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - and because everything has an
acronym this is called SAGE KE. Check out this rather useful website on the
science of aging at http://sageke.sciencemag.org/.

Rob

Journal club 17/5/06

Papers for discussion:

Sex, death and tragedy.
Daniel J. Rankin and Hanna Kokko.
TREE, 21(5), 2006, pp. 225-226.
(commentary on the following paper)

Sex ratio bias, male aggression, and population
collapse in lizards.
Jean-Francois Le Galliard, Patrick S. Fitze, Regis Ferriere and Jean Clobert.
PNAS, 102(50), 2005, pp. 18231-18236.

Notice bored

Thanks, Felix, for starting this. I just walked down the passage to the lab, as I do about 10 times a day, and looked at the same articles and crappy posters. I thought we could make those big poster boards into something that showcases evolutionary biology in some way. It could involve news articles or recent papers. I'm not talking about an extension to our Hall of Fame noticeboard. Rather something that raises the profile of the field in general.
Any ideas? Anyone who wants to spend some time and energy making it work?

*http://www.bees.unsw.edu.au/school/staff/brooks/brookspubs.html
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Australasian Evolution Society: http://www.evolutionau.org

Today's journal club is about:

INTERSPECIFIC AGGRESSION CAUSES NEGATIVE SELECTION ON SEXUAL CHARACTERS.
KATJA TYNKKYNEN, JANNE S. KOTIAHO, MARI LUOJUMÄKI, AND JUKKA SUHONEN Evolution, 59(8), 2005, pp. 1838–1843

Meta-Analysis (lab meeting/Simon)

Mentioned Articles on meta-analyses:

• West & Sheldon 2002
• Palmer 2000
• Palmer 1999
• Griffith, Parker & Olson 2006
  

Mentioned program:

• MetaWin

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::Felix Zajitschek
::BEES / 2052 UNSW / NSW / AUSTRALIA

Group Setup & Info

Hi everybody!

Posts under the name of EvoEcoSex come from members of the Brooks and the Griffith lab at the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, in short BEES, at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney.

Both lab groups work on similar questions, relating to behavioural and evolutionary ecology of sexual reproduction and life histories. We use quantitative genetic analyses, behavioural observations and manipulative experiments to test hypotheses generated from sexual selection and life history theory. We are also interested in the biology of ageing, the evolution of sexual dimorphism, sex determination, genomic imprinting and of the Y chromosome, and the evolutionary consequences of inbreeding.

You can find us here:

• Brooks lab: http://www.bees.unsw.edu.au/school/staff/brooks/brookslab.html

• Griffith lab: links under 'Avian Behavioural Ecology' on http://www.bees.unsw.edu.au/research/researchgroups.html

Brooks Lab United (June 2006)
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Back row, from left:
Rob Brooks, Russell Bonduriansky, Tessa Crozier, Felix Zajitschek, Erik Postma, Matt Hall.
Front row, from left:
Nicolle Spyrou, Susi Zajitschek, Kate Carroll, Nori Kawasaki.