Patten Lab

Join us this fall for a conference in Washington DC. Registration is now open. Register by September 1. paradoxoftheorganism.com

Biased X shutoff due to sex antagony? Likely not, alas (Manus Patten, "Does sexual antagonism explain biased X chromosome inactivation?") #sciku #evol2023

Join @PattenLab and me as a postdoc and model the paradox of the organism! evoldir.tumblr.com/post/666458450… Please RT!

@arvidagren @OUPAcademic Making room on my shelf now!

Today I signed a contract with @OUPAcademic to write a book about the gene’s-eye view of evolution, its history and its standing in contemporary evolutionary biology. Very excited about this project!

The Patten Lab proudly welcomes Maria José Rivera to the distinguished alumni club.

This is a theoretician holding what he thinks is a turtle at the @FloridaMuseum @UF. @GUBiology @davidcblackburn #GoTurtles

Patten lab adds a distinguished alum

Check out new study out today in #PNAS led by @pratha_sah on role of communities in infectious disease transmission: bit.ly/2nxmRml

@ilechelm and your half birthday is Mussolini's

@santiaguetz Why Evolution is True by Coyne. And the big E Mayr books.

Our paper has been published in Brain! Thank you @Brain1878! brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/…

Genomic imprinting in outcrossing A. lyrata! Finally somebody looked where parental conflict really matters. Great! nature.com/articles/nplan…

@Lord_of_Flyz Hickey (1982) ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/62939…

@richmeisel @Lord_of_Flyz It's a hypothetical a la DA Hickey's idea: genes for sex in TEs. I admit it'd be one hell of a gene.

@Lord_of_Flyz Asymmetric meiosis makes sense (and spreads) if you are the allele that hogs the cytoplasm. Paranoid Darwinian explanation.

Newest lab member -- check out her shirt!

"Lab meeting"

Classic case of a sex ratio distorter driving a population to extinction. twitter.com/GenomeNathan/s…

Spending this beautiful Sunday reading an economist's thoughts on evolution