20 November 2010

The Beartooth pipit is the cover of Journal of Experimental Biology; The "Bedtime TV" photo is the National Wildlife cover story on science and photography

The "Beartooth pipit", once made famous by Wild Imagination Journal and a short stint as a Climate Action Commission (EU) poster, continues its life as a perfect Journal of Experimental Biology cover for Jay Storz's fascinating review of plasticity and genetics of adaptation to high-altitude hypoxia in vertebrates.
     And the "Bedtime TV" photo opens the upcoming National Wildlife six-page feature on science, natural history, and photography of yours truly — "The Eyes of a Scientist".

1 October 2010

Dr. Virginia Belloni joins the Lab

Virginia, whose recent research associate positions included Equipe Ecologie Evolutive at Université Dijon Bourgogne (France), STRI (Panama), University of Florence, and University of Urbino (Italy), brings with her a unique blend of expertise in evolutionary immunology (1,2), neurophysiology (3, 4), and endocrinology (5, 6), interest in evolutionary aspects of animal behavior (7), and extensive fieldwork experience in Seychelles, Panama, and Italy. Her current work in the lab focuses on reconstruction of lipid enzymatic pathways in eukaryotes.

20 July 2010

The social network study is in NY Times, Science, Nature, Smithsonian, Current Biology, BBC Wildlife, on NPR; Journal of Experimental Zoology gives us our seventh, best yet, shrew cover

Kevin Oh's research on fitness consequences of social networking is all over the news with the latest features in Nature, New York Times, Science, Current Biology, ASN Forum, UA News, NPR (audio), Último Segundo, Bowdoin College News, Smithsonian Magazine, Biological Physhology Newslink, ScienceReligion Today, BBC Wildlife, Forskning (Norway), QUO (Spain), and other places.
    And with the cover highlighting Rebecca Young's comprehensive study of the role of developmental plasticity in evolutionary divergence, the Journal of Experimental Zoology: Molecular and Developmental Evolution sweeps its mesmerized readers to a magic fairyland of tall mosses and gigantic dragonflies piloted around spruce saplings by tiny shrews.

1 May 2010

Erin Morrison wins graduate fellowship, joins the Lab

Erin's prior research was on the development of innate immunity in birds and the evolution of cooperative mating systems in Australia's apostlebirds. In addition to the college graduate research fellowship, Erin was a recipient of awards of distinction in mathematics. In her free time, she is the captain of women's varsity swim team and is the 2008 NCAA Division III National Champion and Record Holder in the 400 m freestyle relay.

10 April 2010

Farhana Hossain joins the Lab; Flandrau Science Center Exhibit opens with our photos

Farhana's work is at the interface of development, mathematical modeling, and biochemistry of carotenoid pigmentation with specific focus on the evolution of modularity. She is a recent recipient of the Baird Foundation Scholarship, Wildcat Excellence Scholarship, and the Robert C. Byrd Scholarship from Arizona's Department of Education. And the newly open Flandrau Science Center features a large format photoexhibit of the Lab's recent projects on the evolutionary stages of powered flight in bats and flying squirrels.

5, 13, 25 March 2010

Three honorary lectures in three weeks present the Lab's recent work

Following an exceptionally impressive group of speakers from the previous 34 years, The 35th Albert L. Tester Distinguished Lecture in Hawaii (Manoa) highlighted the lab's most recent work on the rapid evolution of regulatory elements determining expression of conserved developmental processes in physiological traits. The Storer Foundation Lecture at UC Davis addressed the evolution of continuity in inheritance systems, while The 2010 Jack & Pat Bryan Distinguished Lecture (Syracuse University, New York) dealt with the place of emergence and natural selection in the evolution of complex structures.

26 February 2010

Last year's "Baldwin effect" paper figures are in their third book; Functional Ecology gives us our sixth shrew cover

The 10 month-old figures, already out in two books, are now coming out in an exciting new "The Flexible Phenotype" by Theunis Piersma and Jan van Gils (Oxford Univ. Press). And in an explicit recognition that nothing drives up an Impact Factor more than a supercute shrew on the cover, Functional Ecology highlights Rebecca Young's recent work on the morphological basis of ecological convergence.

1 February 2010

"A Day after Death" added; An agency to represent our scientific photography

A gallery tracing the brief story of a collared peccary (Pecari tajacu) herd losing newborn piglets to a cold front is added to the Feature category of tenbestphotos.com. Starting now, Visuals Unlimited, Inc., a leading supplier of scientific images to top biological and medical journals and textbooks, will represent our science and nature photography.

15 January 2010

The Scientist's cover story features the Lab's current work

on the synthesis of facilitated developmental variation and genetic covariance in finch beak ontogeny during adaptive evolution. The research is the cover story of the January 2010 issue of The Scientist and it's main feature illustrated with our photographs. The highlighted study will appear, also with the cover, in March 2010 (Darwin's Finches in Modern Evolutionary Biology) issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

1 January 2010

Happy New Year!