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Apr 21, 20203 min read

What evolutionary force maintains inversion polymorphisms?

On April 8th, Rohit Kolora led the discussion on the paper by Jay et al. (2018) titled “supergene evolution triggered by introgression of...

Apr 6, 20202 min read

Inversion arose in the common ancestor not after hybridization?

Diler led the interesting discussion on March 25th about Fuller et al. (2018) study demonstrating the inversion that is important in...

Apr 3, 20202 min read

Sex chromosome evolution at species boundary

Ryan Bracewell led the discussion about Dixon et al (2018) study on the origin of new sex chromosome by introgression. We tend to think...

Mar 23, 20202 min read

Sexual imprinting sets stage for speciation?

Nicholas Alexandre led this discussion on Mar. 18th 2020 about sexual imprinting setting stage for speciation. This paper provides...

Mar 12, 20202 min read

Gene flow and phylogeography of poison-dart frogs

We chatted about this Marquez, R. et al. on leapfrog distribution of poison-dart frogs associated with divergence and gene flow. The Zoom...

Mar 4, 20201 min read

Ancestral subdivisions-- a missing piece of the puzzle in introgression detection

For Mar. 4th discussion (led by Monty Slatkin), we revisited Slatkin & Pollack (2008) and Durand et al. (2011) along with the new...

Feb 25, 20204 min read

Questions about selection on Heliconius colour gene regions (Moest et al. 2020 Plos Bio).

We discussed this paper on Feb. 19th, led by Doris Bachtrog. After the enthusiastic discussion, a few questions were raised. So I emailed...