My life while the world spins madly on...

Thoughts arising while working as a scientist or just randomly spinning from my brain.

I don't give a damn, I'm happy as a clam, nobody knows me at all

[This and the section title borrowed from the Weepies - great lyrics.]

Everything here is just what I think and does not represent opinion of my employer or anybody else. See the Impressum.

Saturday, 21 July 2012

introgression and sympatric speciation?

suggest reading this paper:

Nature(2012): 1–5. Butterfly genome reveals... .doi:10.1038/nature11041.1.

It is brilliant for elegantly showing that gene flow in/between hybrid species might lead to adaptive advantages. I think it might really be indicating that sympatric speciation is much more common than generally thought.

Also the paper demonstrates what kind of biological questions can be adressed by modern high throughput sequencing technique - it's far more than just massive data juggling, it's about solving questions (in Evolutionary Biology - whohohoo!). 

 

In addition I suggest Ashes & Fire from Ryan Adams, great music!

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