What does Drosophila genetics tell us about speciation?

Does hybridisation influence speciation?

As Butlin et al. (2012) emphasise, hybridisation occurs almost inevitably during speciation. Moreover, studying patterns of introgression across the genome, and the spatial structure of hybrid zones, can tell us much about the genetics of divergence and reproductive isolation. Nevertheless, hybridisation may well have a negligible effect on the actual process of speciation. On the one hand, uni...

Skin-heart connection: what can the epidermis tell us about the myocardium in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy?

What does the residual income method tell us about housing affordability in Australia?

This bulletin is based on research conducted by Professor Terry Burke and Ms Liss Ralston at the AHURI UNSWUWS Research Centre, and Professor Michael Stone from the University of Massachusetts, USA. The project considered the policy implications of using a different measure for housing affordability— using the residual income rather than the income ratio method. What does the residual income me...

What Does Institutional Economics Tell Us About Development ?

Impact? What Three Years of Research Tell Us about Library Instruction

7 I keep returning to a question librarians in my line of work have asked ourselves many times during the course of our careers: " Are we having an impact with library instruction? " We can judge our success by talking to colleagues or hearing anecdotal feedback from our students after any library workshop. But what does the literature tell us? I decided to peruse issues of C&RL published over ...