Alvaro Martinez-Barrio

TL;DR: The whole-genome re-sequencing of 120 individuals representing all of the Darwin’s finch species and two close relatives finds extensive evidence for interspecific gene flow throughout the radiation.

TL;DR: It is found that LD decayed rapidly, reaching the background level by around 400 kb, consistent with other vertebrates but at odds with the notion that fur seals experienced a strong historical bottleneck, and is a clear example of how high throughput sequencing can generate diverse biological insights at multiple levels of organization.

TL;DR: Reanalysis of genotyping data from seven previous studies found the same two variables to be significantly associated with SNP validation success across a variety of taxa, indicating that sequence uniqueness and proximity to intron–exon boundaries play an important role.

TL;DR: A role for methylation in the regulation of gene expression underlying the domesticated phenotype of the chicken is suggested and it is shown that methylation is correlated with some aspects of behavioural variation in the inter-cross.

TL;DR: Focusing on the most extensively sampled population of South Georgia, it was found that LD decayed rapidly, reaching the background level of r2 = 0.09 by around 26 kb, consistent with other vertebrates but at odds with the notion that fur seals experienced a strong historical bottleneck.