Tag Archives: speciation

BEACON Researchers at Work: The Origin of a Species?

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU postdoc Zachary Blount. I love big questions. I tend to walk around, my head in the clouds, questions flitting through my head. I admit that I have walked into … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Making and breaking species

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Alycia Lackey. The world’s biodiversity represents a balance between the formation and extinction of species. To understand what drives diversity, scientists study what generates, maintains, and degrades … Continue reading →

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Evolution 101: Natural Selection

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s Evolution 101 post is by an interdisciplinary group of BEACONites, all of whom rely on the principles of natural selection in their research: MSU graduate student Nikki Cavalieri (Zoology), MSU postdoc Prakarn Unachak (Evolutionary Computation), and NC A&T … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Speciation and genetic incompatibilities in digital organisms

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU graduate student Carlos Anderson. This blog post is a follow up to one I wrote last year about my research on speciation with digital organisms. One of my projects tested … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: The effect of landscapes and ecology on gene flow and speciation in amphibians

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Idaho graduate student Tyler Hether. The amount of biological diversity at all levels of biological organization—from genes to ecosystems—fascinates me. This interest is the reason I study evolutionary … Continue reading →

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