Elmer Lab

New paper out Franchini, P., C. Fruciano, M.-L. Spreitzer, J. C. Jones, K. R. Elmer, F. Henning, and A. Meyer, 2014 Genomic architecture of ecologically divergent body shape in a pair of sympatric crater lake cichlid fishes . Mol Ecol 23: 1828-1845.   (years of raising those fishies comes to fruition!) and the topic of the issue's Perspective by Sean Rogers & Heather Jamniczky

Kathryn Elmer (PI), Nick Kamenos and Zhenhong Li (Geography, co-Is) have been awarded a well-funded Lord Kelvin Adam Smith studentship (2014/2015 for 4 yrs) for their project "Trees through time: Biodiversity on the landscape".

Kusche, H., H. Recknagel, K. R. Elmer, and A. Meyer, 2014 Crater lake cichlids individually specialize along the benthic-limnetic axis . Ecology and Evolution in press:

Congratulations to Hans Recknagel on being awarded a Hereditary Fieldwork grant by the Genetics Society! This will be a great help with his PhD research this summer in the Alps (tough, but someone has to do it ...)