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Recovering speciation and extinction dynamics based on phylogeniesT. Stadler ( Read more... )

Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1239431
How the Red Queen Drives Terrestrial Mammals to Extinction

Tiago B. Quental, Charles R. Marshall
AbstractMost species disappear by the processes of background extinction, yet those processes are poorly understood. Here, we analyze the evolutionary dynamics of 19 Cenozoic terrestrial mammalian clades with rich ( Read more... )

Rewriting Evolution-“Been There, Done That”
David Penny
Genome Biol Evol (2013) 5 (5): 819-821. (April 4, 2013)

A recent paper by a science journalist in Nature shows major errors in understanding phylogenies, in this case of placental mammals. The underlying unrooted tree is probably correct, but the placement of the root just reflects a well- ( Read more... )

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"How Carl Woese transformed the field of microbial ecology"
Ed DeLong (MIT)

The challenges of dissecting naturally occurring microbial assemblages, with respect to their community composition, interspecies interactions, functional attributes, and activities, are numerous and daunting. For many years, these  ( Read more... )

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ICCBGES 2013 : International Conference on Chromosome Biology, Genome Evolution and Speciation

Zurich, Switzerland
July 30-31, 2013

The XXIV. International Conference on Chromosome Biology, Genome Evolution and Speciation ims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research ( Read more... )

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17th Evolutionary Biology Meeting at Marseilles,
September 17-20,2013 Marseilles FRANCEWe are pleased to inform you that the 17th Evolutionary Biology Meeting at
Marseilles will take place on 17-20 September 2013, Marseilles, France.

The following subjects will be discussed:

- Evolutionary biology concepts and modelisations for biological annotation;
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