Miss Joan Scruton MBE

Joan Lane

The death of Dr Joan Lane after a short illness in May of this year is a great and sad loss to her colleagues and friends and to the history of medicine community. Joan was about to take retirement from the University of Warwick, where she had taught for the past twenty-two years. Although she had no intention of ceasing with her research activities, she was planning to spend more time with her...

Joan Silk

Joan Silk is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis, did postdoctoral research at the University of Chicago, and taught briefly at Emory University before joining the faculty at UCLA in 1986. Her work has mainly focused on the evolutionary basis of behavior in nonhuman primates, with a special emphasis ...

Joan E. Strassmann

genetic variation, potentially could explain the lack of response to climate change. The researchers found, however, that European migratory species with declining breeding populations in the last decade responded the least to recent climate change. “Our findings have important implications for future evaluations of conservation status and for attempts to manage populations of declining species...

Bucket Errors in MBE Trees

Microsoft Word - 2011-moury-mbe

The dN/dS ratio between nonsynonymous and synonymous substitution rates has been used extensively to identify codon positions involved in adaptive processes. However, the accuracy of this approach has been questioned and very few studies have attempted to validate experimentally its predictions. Using the coat protein (CP) of Potato virus Y (PVY; genus Potyvirus, family Potyviridae) as a case s...