Behavioral Ecology Blog

A shocking misrepresentation, but while we’re misrepresentin’ Lets have some fun… Change the title to “What the God Fearin’ Cry Out During Sex” and YOU FILL IN THE CAPTIONS!
1st, the original:
Now, my modified version:

Original from My Confined Space

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Reed has an interesting repost (Chimps are Laughing at You) over on his blog - partly in response to a blog over at PZ’s place that is generating alot of furor..

Basically he has a graph from a 1999 PNAS paper that looks at African hominoid genetic diversity: He presents this graph:
and says:
What [...]

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Following up on my post from a few days ago about the unexpected results looking at MHC polymorphism and mating system- It seems to me that I should make explicit the alternative hypotheses…
So basically there are 4, not-strictly-mutually-exclusive ones that I will test.

MHC polymorphism is related to sexual behavior, i.e. mating system. Basically saying that [...]

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She got a whopping 99%!

I’d challenge somebody.. but I only know nerds (wife excluded!)

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I’m sure that some of you have been thinking about how the SoCal fires have affected my field work. I have several sites in San Diego County- most of which are either threatened or already burned. Here is the map. The areas marker by “red plus signs” are locations where I trapped last summer.
Bummer!!! [...]

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So I was working on some sequences the other night using ClustalW, the online resource for editing and aligning sequences, when Patrick, my 10 year old come up and asked me what I was doing. He noticed all the interesting colors (as bases are colored in this program), and picked up on some of [...]

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Is there anyone out there working on a genus level phylogeny of Peromyscus?? It is super annoying that a “super-tree” does not exist…. Argh… I need a tree to proceed with several of the most exciting research questions- and not being a phylogeneticist, the prospects of having to build one myself is slightly daunting.. [...]

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Parasitism has long been thought of as a significant cost of sociality- as their transmission is typically density defendant. Basically- as the density of hosts increases (as it does in social species) so does the rate of transmission, which is parasites is equivalent to reproduction. More recently however, the ubiquity of this [...]

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