Welcome to the EvolDir
"Evolution Directory"

POPULAR PRESS HEADLINES
 		ANNOUNCEMENTS

'I have a 50:50 chance of developing Alzheimer's in my 50s'

John Jennings may have inherited a gene from his mother that could trigger early-onset of the condition.

From the BBC News-2024-5-5:8:5:1

How mapping tree genomes can help plant forests resilient to climate change

A research team at the University of Alberta is looking into why some trees in Alberta are more resilient when faced with drought, disease and the risk of wildfires by sequencing tree genomes.

From the CBC News-2024-5-2:14:6:1

Toronto Native Plant Market helps gardeners boost local biodiversity

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we learn how native plants help boost biodiversity in your garden, get an update on global and federal action on plastic pollution and get tips for making your wardrobe more sustainable.

From the CBC News-2024-4-26:8:5:1

More Headlines ...

 The EvolDir is directed toward evolutionary biologists, population biologists and scientists in related areas.

Reminder: the preferred use of EvolDir is for bulletins not discussions (for the latter see the USENET/Google groups).

A potential fix for gmails has been implemented by my university. Users with deleted (Dec6-Jan3) gmail addresses will have to subscribe again.

Call for papers in Evolutionary Ecology, "Dispersal in Small Organisms." Deadline Nov 1 2024. (May 2).

Living Computers Replicators, Information Processing, and the Evolution of Life, by Alvis Brazma, Oxford University Press. (Apr 27).

Island Biogeography Geo-environmental Dynamics, Ecology, Evolution, Human Impact, and Conservation, by Robert J. Whittaker, José María Fernández-Palacios, and Thomas J. Matthews, from Oxford University Press. (Apr 20).

Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics, S.J. Arnold, Oxford University Press. (Apr 13).

Please ensure that the EvolDir is 'whitelisted' with your email service providers. Repeated bounces stating that your email is blocked will result in the removal of your email from the EvolDir. You can check the website to ensure that you are receiving all emails.

Other notices of general interest can go here (including notices that may be commercial).

SELECTED JOURNAL TOC's

Files added in the last three days: 

PNAS_121_19_TueMay07.html                               431291 bytes     May  7 16:01
Trends_in_Ecology_Evolution:_May_2024_39:5               59382 bytes     May  7 13:07
G3_14_5_TueMay07.html                                   171361 bytes     May  7 10:36
Genetics_227_1_TueMay07.html                            175434 bytes     May  7 10:36
PLoSBiology_22(04):TueMay07.html                        106050 bytes     May  7 05:36
Trends_in_Genetics:_May_2024_40:5                        50195 bytes     May  6 13:07
Bioinformatics_April_2024_40:4                          222468 bytes     May  5 07:07

More Journal TOC's ...
SELECTED FORTHCOMING ARTICLES

Articles added in the last three days:

May 7 12:00The evolution and characterization of the RNA interference pathways in Lophotrochozoa - (GBE)
May 6 16:00Unpredictability of the fitness effects of antimicrobial resistance mutations across environments in Escherichia coli - (MBE)
May 6 16:00Genetic causes and genomic consequences of breakdown of distyly in Linum trigynum - (MBE)

More Forthcoming ...

The most recent EvolDir posting is shown here ...

Older messages are shown in the directories given below.

The most recent listing of people and e-mail addresses is here.

Conferences Graduate positions
Jobs Other Archive
Postdocs Workshops/Courses Answers 

last.day                9 KB        May  6 08:46
last.day-1              2 KB        May  4 10:20
last.day-2             23 KB        May  3 07:57
Mnth_Review.pdf       634 KB        May  1 00:25
Mnth_Review-1.pdf     691 KB        Apr  1 00:25
Mnth_Review-2.pdf     749 KB        Mar  1 00:25

Please note that if the above information is not displayed correctly, please make sure that you access this website via https://evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldir.html or via https://evol.mcmaster.ca/evoldir.html.

This site is managed by Brian Golding. If you feel that you have something of interest to other evolutionary biologists please send me e-mail and I will put it on these pages. These pages are for evolutionary biologists (population genetics, and related fields). If there is a message that seems too distant to these purposes, it will be deleted or worse, edited at my discretion to read "the evolution of ...".

General INSTRUCTIONS are available for the EvolDir. It is my policy that commercial notices are not permitted except in the announcement section and at my discretion (send emails with the subject header "EvolDir -for announcement section" to me at Golding@McMaster.CA). SPAM of any sort is not tolerated but some may occassionally, but only temporally, escape me.

Thanks to Prof.Page the EvolDir is also available on Twitter.