The papers we discussed were Swatantra Mack KL, Campbell P, Nachman MW. Gene regulation and speciation in house mice. Genome Research. 2016;26(4):451-461. doi:10.1101/gr.195743.115. Kenny Nakanishi T, Kato Y, Matsuura T, Watanabe H (2014) CRISPR/Cas-Mediated Targeted Mutagenesis in Daphnia magna. PLOS ONE 9(5): e98363.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0098363 Trung Kato Y, Matsuura T, Watanabe H (2012) Genomic Integration and Germline Transmission of Plasmid Injected into Crustacean Daphnia magna Eggs. PLOS ONE 7(9): e45318. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0045318 Marelize Some Cytological Observations on…
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Lab meeting 11/15/2017
The papers we discussed were: Kenny Wik A & Dave G (2006) Acute toxicity of leachates of tire wear material to Daphnia magna – Variability and toxic components. Chemosphere 64:1777-1784. Swatantra Qian WF & Zhang JZ (2014) Genomic evidence for adaptation by gene duplication. Genome Res 24:1356-1362. Trung Hong X, Scofield DG, & Lynch M (2006) Intron size, abundance, and…
Lab meeting 11/1/2017
Papers we discussed were Kenny: Bourgeois, Y., Roulin, A. C., Müller, K., & Ebert, D. (2017). Parasitism drives host genome evolution: Insights from the Pasteuria ramosa–Daphnia magna system. Evolution, 71(4), 1106-1113. Marelize: Massicotte, R., Whitelaw, E., & Angers, B. (2011). DNA methylation: a source of random variation in natural populations. Epigenetics, 6(4), 421-427. Swatantra: Miyakawa, H., Toyota, K., Hirakawa, I., Ogino, Y., Miyagawa, S.,…
Lab meeting 10/25/2017
For this week’slab meeting, Trung presented this paper to the lab. Jin, Y. H., Clark, A. B., Slebos, R. J., Al-Refai, H., Taylor, J. A., Kunkel, T. A., … & Gordenin, D. A. (2003). Cadmium is a mutagen that acts by inhibiting mismatch repair. Nature genetics, 34(3), 326-329.
Lab meeting 10/18/2017
Papers that were discussed in this week’s lab meeting. Kenny: Ebert, D., Joachim Carius, H., Little, T., & Decaestecker, E. (2004). The Evolution of Virulence When Parasites Cause Host Castration and Gigantism. The American Naturalist, 164(S5), S19-S32. doi:10.1086/424606 Swatantra: Akbar S, Du J, Jia Y, Tian X (2017) The importance of calcium in improving resistance of Daphnia to Microcystis. PLOS ONE 12(4): e0175881.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0175881 Trung: Bodar, C. W. M., Van Leeuwen,…