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Heirloom plants: Saving the nation's seeds from extinction

The incredible history of the UK's heirloom plants and why they're set to make a comeback.

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Green sea turtles: Vulnerable animal's hatching season draws to close

The green sea turtle is vulnerable to extinction as the climate warms, Australian scientists say.

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Neanderthals ate sharks and dolphins

Neanderthals were eating fish, mussels and seals at a site in present-day Portugal, according to a new study.

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Evolution, Ecology and Conservation of Lorises and Pottos edited by K. A. I. Nekaris and Anne M. Burrows (Mar 28).

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Why Big Fierce Animals are Rare by Paul A. Colinvaux, from Princeton University Press (Mar 7).

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Mar 31 16:00	Accumulation of deleterious mutations in landlocked threespine stickleback populations - Kohta Yoshida et al. (GBE)
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Mar 30 16:00	An Annotated Chromosome-Level Reference Genome of the Red-Eared Slider Turtle (Trachemys scripta elegans) - W Brian Simison et al. (GBE)
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Dear all,

the 5th edition of the Population Genomics course will be held online:
https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/course9/

Instructors: Dr. Martin Taylor and Dr. Lewis Spurgin (University of East
Anglia, UK)

The course will cover the basics of population genomic analysis from
SNP data onwards and will cover the key analyses that may be required to
successfully analyze a population genetic data set. The course will NOT
cover steps prior to generation of a .vcf file or SNP data set such as
NGS data demultiplexing, clustering and SNP calling (This is covered in
detail in the Introduction to RADseq course). This course will introduce
Linux and the command line environment, basic perl and python usage, file
conversions and manipulation, population structure and differentiation in
R, outlier analysis, landscape / seascape genomics and introgression. The
course will use a range of software including the Linux operating system
and R.

This course is aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers
who are interested in using population genomic tools in their research. No
previous experience of bioinformatics is required, but an underpinning
in evolutionary biology and basic population genetics concepts such as
Hardy Weinberg Equilibrium and FST are desirable.

Having completed the course, students should have a good understanding
of the software and methods available for population genomic analysis
and be competent in population genomic analysis.

Programme: (
https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/course9/curriculum9/ )

Other upcoming Physalia courses will be also held online:
https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/

Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at (
mailto:info@physalia-courses.org )

All the best,
Carlo

Carlo Pecoraro, Ph.D
Physalia-courses DIRECTOR
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