Journal club 19/7/2006

Kate will talk about:
Female fitness declines with increasing female density but not male harassment in the western mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis.
Chad C. Smith and R. Craig Sargent. Animal Behaviour, 71(2), 2006, pp. 401-407.

Top five science blogs

Unfortunately we didn't make it into the top 5...

"Weblogs written by scientists are relatively rare, but some of them are proving popular. Out of 46.7 million blogs indexed by the Technorati blog search engine, five scientists' sites make it into the top 3,500. Declan Butler asks the winners about the reasons for their success."

See news @ nature.com for the winners

Labmeeting 10/7/2006

In this weeks' labmeeting Mark Kirkpatrick will talk about:

"Genetical principal components and fun traits"

Journal club

For this weeks journal club, Nori picked:
Nancy Tyler Burley, 2006. AN EYE FOR DETAIL: SELECTIVE SEXUAL IMPRINTING IN ZEBRA FINCHES. Evolution 60: 1076–1085

Some bedtime reading

Check out this link to a set of lecture notes written by Bruce Walsh for a post graduate course on evolutionary genetics:
http://nitro.biosci.arizona.edu/workshops/Aarhus2006/notes.html