Author: Ian Wang

Guin Wogan’s paper on natural history collections as windows into evolutionary processes has just been published in Molecular Ecology.

M.W. Holmes, T. T. Hammond, G. O. U. Wogan, R. E. Walsh, K. LaBarbera, E. A. Wommack, J. C. Crawford, F. M. Martins, K. L. Mack, L. M. Bloch, and M.W. Nachman. 2016. Natural history collections as windows on evolutionary processes. Molecular Ecology v. 25: 864–881. DOI: 10.1111/mec.13529

Emani Harris has received grant from UC Berkeley’s Sponsored Projects for Undergraduate Research (SPUR) for her senior project on the Pacific treefrog (Pseudacris regilla)

Guin Wogan’s work on genetic structure and ecological divergence in the Asia common toad (Duttaphrynus melanostictus) is now out in Biology Letters!

G. O. U. Wogan, B. L. Stuart, D. T. Iskandar, and J. A. McGuire. 2016. Deep genetic structure and ecological divergence in a widespread human commensal toad. Biology Letters v. 12 (1) 20150807. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2015.0807

Skye Glenn has received grant from UC Berkeley’s Sponsored Projects for Undergraduate Research (SPUR) for her honors thesis project on California newts (Taricha torosa)!

Ian’s review with co-authors Jonathan Richardson, Steven Brady, and Steven Spear on the promises and pitfalls of landscape genetics has been published in Molecular Ecology.

Richardson J.L., Brady S.P., Wang I.J., Spear S.F. (2016) Navigating the pitfalls and promise of landscape genetics. Molecular Ecology, 25: 849-863.

Michael Yuan’s research on gopher tortoise microbiomes which appeared in Molecular Ecology has just been highlighted by The Molecular Ecologist blog!