Pleiotropy: August 2013

62nd Carnival of Evolution

By Bjørn Østman on 8/02/2013 08:04:00 AM

The 62nd edition: The Whig History is up at Joachim Dagg's Ecology and Evolution Footnotes. It's a voluminous and excellent edition, but as Joachim notes, getting enough submissions is more and more becoming the chore of the host.

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Pleiotropy comes from the Greek πλείων pleion, meaning "more", and τρέπειν trepein, meaning "to turn, to convert". It designates the occurrence of a single gene affecting multiple traits, and is a hugely important concept in evolutionary biology.

I was a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara last time I updated this. Now I'm a data analyst in New York.

~~All~~ Many aspects of evolution interest me, but my research focus used to be on microbial evolution, adaptive radiation, speciation, fitness landscapes, epistasis, and the influence of genetic architecture on adaptation and speciation.

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