The EGI Journal Club is a forum for discussion of published papers and personal work in progress. The meeting is intended primarily for EGI members only but others may join in. Meetings normally held from 1-2pm.


Here is a list of papers discussed this term:

Irwin D.E., Bensch S. & Price T.D. (2001) Speciation in a ring. Nature, 409, 333-337. - Presented by Teddy Wilkin.

Kaeuffer R., Coltman D.W., Chapuis J.L., Pontier D. & Reale D. (2007) Unexpected heterozygosity in an island mouflon population founded by a single pair of individuals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 274, 527-533. Presented by Marta Szulkin.

Olsson M., Wapstra E., Madsen T., Ujvari B. & Rugfelt C. (2005) Costly parasite resistance: a genotype-dependent handicap in sand lizards? Biology Letters, 1, 375-377. Presented by Mark Baynes.

Tschirren B., Fitze P.S. & Richner H. (2007) Maternal modulation of natal dispersal in a passerine bird: An adaptive strategy to cope with parasitism? American Naturalist, 169, 87-93. Presented by Ben Sheldon.

Whittingham M.J., Stephens P.A., Bradbury R.B. & Freckleton R.P. (2006) Why do we still use stepwise modelling in ecology and behaviour? Journal of Animal Ecology, 75, 1182-1189. Presented by Kris Jones.

Dawson, A. (2007) Seasonality in a temperate zone bird can be entrained by near equatorial photoperiods. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 274, 721-725. Presented by Claire Devereaux.