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Topic #8 April 6th &13th Avehi & HulaliSNACKS & Who is Who: Denn Behavior paper:Randler, C. (2007). Assortative Mating of Carrion Corvus corone and Hooded Crows. C. cornix in the Hybrid Zone in Eastern Germany. Netherlands Ornithologists' Union, 95(1):143-149. Genomics paper:Poelstra, J.W., Vijay, N., Bossu, C.M., Lantz, H. et al. (2014). The genomic landscapr underlying phenotypic integrity in the face of gene flow in crows. Science, 344(6190):1410-1414.
Questions for reading (students must turn in 4 sets throughout semester):- Make a list of terms and techniques you did not understand. - What was the main difference in gene expression between Hooded Crows and Carrion Crows? - How did they measure genome-wide differences between the different samples of tissues? - What are genomic ‘Cacti’? - What are inversions? - Why are hybrid zones considered a paradox? State in terms of how species are defined. - How did they conclude that there is a lot of gene flow between these populations? - Explain what is being shown in Figure 2. What is the overall take-home message of this figure? |