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Strange reptile fossil puzzles scientists

A reptile that lived 200 million years ago is rewriting the rulebooks on how four-legged animals conquered the world.

From the BBC News-2016-9-29:14:6:1

Trilobites: In Decades Old Slides, Drops of Blood and Hints of Malaria’s Path

DNA studies help reveal that some malaria strains closely followed the migrations of people: from India to Europe and then from Europe to the Americas.

From the NYTimes News-2016-9-28:20:6:1

New safeguards agreed for world's most trafficked mammal

A little known species driven to the edge of extinction by poaching, has gained extra protection at the Cites meeting in South Africa.

From the BBC News-2016-9-28:14:6:1

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Concepts in Bioinformatics and Genomicsby J.Momand, A.McCurdy from Oxford Univ Press. (Sept 28).

An Introduction to Conservation Biology by R.Primack, A.Sher from Sinauer. (Sept 24).

Neoliberal Ebola: Modeling Disease Emergence from Finance to Forest and Farm, ed by R.G.Wallace and R.Wallace, from Springer (Sept 20).

Fundamental questions in island biology . An online survey available till Sept 16th. (Sep 11).

Twitter can advance your science career. An online class (Sep18-Oct8) can help. (Sep 6).

Molecular and Genome Evolution by D.Graur, from Sinauer (Sep 4).

2016 Biodiversity award from IDT for those in Illinois or Iowa. (Aug 29).

Cheats and Deceits How animals and plants exploit and mislead, by M.Stevens, from Oxford Univ Press (Aug 28).

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Sep 29 08:00	A Thousand Fly Genomes: An Expanded Drosophila Genome Nexus - Justin B. Lack, Jeremy D. Lange, Alison D. Tang, Russell B. Corbett-Detig, John E. Pool (MBE)
Sep 28 16:00	Concomitant emergence of the antisense protein gene of HIV-1 and of the pandemic - Elodie Cassan, Anne-Muriel Arigon-Chifolleau, Jean-Michel Mesnard, Antoine Gross, Olivier Gascuel (PNAS)
Sep 27 12:00	Comparative Genome Analysis of the Daptomycin Resistant Streptococcus anginosus strain J4206 associated with Breakthrough Bacteremia - Maliha Rahman et al. (GBE)
Sep 27 12:00	The Impact of Linked Selection in Chimpanzees: A Comparative Study - Susanne P. Pfeifer, Jeffrey D. Jensen (GBE)
Sep 27 12:00	Atopic Dermatitis Susceptibility Variants In Filaggrin Hitchhike Hornerin Selective Sweep - Muthukrishnan Eaaswarkhanth et al. (GBE)
Sep 27 12:00	Phylogenetic Analysis of Molluscan Metallothioneins: Evolutionary Insight from Crassostrea virginica - (JME)
Sep 27 08:00	The Evolution of Innate Immune Genes: Purifying and Balancing Selection on β-Defensins in Waterfowl - Joanne R. Chapman et al. (MBE)

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ACCEPTING REGISTRATIONS for Taming the BEAST in the South Pacific

February 5th to February 10th 2017.

Application deadline: October 25th, 2016. See "Taming the BEAST in the
South Pacific" https://www.compevol.auckland.ac.nz/en/events.html for
registration and scholarship process details. 3 partial scholarships
are available for postgraduate students.

This 5-day comprehensive summer school will focus on the BEAST2 software
and is aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers in the
life sciences. Speakers and tutorial instructors are leading experts in
the field and come from New Zealand, Australia and the UK. The location
of the summer school is on the beautiful Waiheke Island, a short ferry
ride from Auckland city centre, New Zealand.

The course combines lecture sessions, guided tutorials, and opportunities
to discuss the analysis of your own data with experts. The programme
is divided into daily themes which cover 1) Bayesian phylogenetics and
relaxed clocks; 2) phylodynamics: macroevolution and infectious disease;
3) species tree and gene trees; 4) plylogenetic model comparison, model
selection and model averaging and 5) phylogeography and trait evolution.

Taming the BEAST in the South Pacific is organised by the Centre for
Computational Evolution at the University of Auckland, and follows the
successful inaugural Taming the BEAST workshop in the Swiss Alps run by
ETH Zurich earlier this year.

For more information, please visit our website
http://www.compevol.auckland.ac.nz/ or send an email to
compevol@auckland.ac.nz

"alexei@cs.auckland.ac.nz" <alexei@cs.auckland.ac.nz>

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