SEEN 3.8
- You can feel very proud about your choice of degree, this is the century of biology http://www.nature.com/nature/supplements/insights/frontiers_biology_2013/index.html
- Scientists love science (and people?) – PhD student Zoe Harris found this little gem in the Guardian on Valentine’s day last week http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/brain-flapping/2013/feb/14/valentines-day-how-to-woo-a-scientist Thank you Zoe!
- Conservation status of the world’s reptiles – Rob Gandola, who works with Operation Wallacea, sent in this link to this recent herpetological paper, very worrying http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320712003357 – article (how many authors?! http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/21458115 – review http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/15/16965546-turtles-snakes-and-lizards-head-toward-extinction?lite – review
- Human disturbance increases vulnerability to ecosystem collapse http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v494/n7435/full/nature11869.html
- Floral polymorphisms – 2nd years, we considered the importance of microclimates as selection pressures for the maintenance of polymorphisms in Evolution this week. You can watch a film about floral polymorphisms here http://vimeo.com/59700931
- Peppered moths – We also considered the peppered moth in Evolution this week, you can read more about the origin of the polymorphism here bit.ly/ZotM3D
- Russian meteor – Nature blog’s post http://blogs.nature.com/news/2013/02/incoming-russia-feels-meteor-blast.html
- The genome of Sasquatch has been sequenced, so it must be real, right? Wrong, anyone can publish in this journal, you pay, they publish http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/02/bigfoot-genome-paper-conclusively-proves-that-sasquatch-is-real/
- Mutations are random but the same ones keep occurring – http://www.nature.com/news/predictable-evolution-trumps-randomness-of-mutations-1.12459
- Mammal ancestor – all mammals originated from a shrewlike mammal http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/02/07/meet-the-ancestor-of-every-human-bat-cat-whale-and-mouse/
- Pollution effect on fish behaviour (anti=anxiety drug) http://www.nature.com/news/anti-anxiety-drug-found-in-rivers-makes-fish-more-aggressive-1.12434
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Judith Lock