Check out Angel Rivera-Colón et al., Multiple Loci Control Eyespot Number Variation on the Hindwings of Bicyclus anynana butterflies, to learn about the multiple loci implicated in controlling eyespot number in this model butterfly.
Vision papers from the four Reintegrating Biology workshops NSF held in December can now be viewed on-line. Links to these papers are found in NSF’s Bio Buzz blog post Reintegrating Biology Workshop Series Outcomes, as well as at Knowinnovation’s blog post: Biology’s Jupitershots.
Erica had the pleasure of participating in one of NSF’s sponsored Reintegrating Biology workshops in Austin, TX December 2019. It was a wonderful opportunity to brainstorm solutions to current roadblocks in scientific advancement, while meeting biologists from multiple fields and institutions across the US. Stay tuned for thought provoking papers and thought pieces from these Read More …
Congratulations to PhD candidate Grace Hirzel on receiving 2nd place in the student poster presentation competition for the section of Systematics, Evolution, & Biodiversity at the Entomological Society of America, Nov 17-20, St. Louis, MO for her poster entitled “Active and abundant: Seasonal variation in butterfly communities in Arkansas prairies”. Well done!
In a paper recently published in the American Economic Review, “Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time?” P. Azoulay and coauthors examine the effects of scientific luminaries on the publication rates of their peers and junior colleagues. It is, perhaps, a reminder of the importance of open-mindedness to scientific advancement. Azoulay, P., Fons-Rosen, C., Read More …
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Behaviour before beauty: Signal weighting during mate selection in the butterfly Papilio polytes. Male Papilio polytes, an Asian swallowtail butterfly with female-limited polymorphism and Batesian mimicry, have context dependent mate preferences. In collaboration with Augustana University, SD, the University of Chicago, IL, and Butterfly House and Aquarium, SD, we show that males prefer to court Read More …
Many congratulations to PhD student Sushant Potdar for his excellent talk on the effects of elevation and time of day on the behavior of montane butterflies in the Western Himalayas.
We had a wonderful time at the Arkansas Entomological Society Annual Meeting at the Janet Huckabee River Valley Nature Center, Feb 16, 2019th! Congratulations graduate students Grace Hirzel, Matt Murphy, and Sushant Potdar on their talks, and undergraduates Brandon Allen and Colman Betler on their poster!
A new paper identifying loci for assortative mating in Heliconius melpomene and Heliconius cydno, Genetic dissection of assortative mating, was published in PLoS Biology by Merrill et al. today. Check it out here , as well as my primer for their paper, Searching for the genes driving assortative mating. Many thanks to graduate student Matt Murphy Read More …
