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Kester Jarvis
Kester is an in-house editor for BMC Biology with interests in genetics, ecology and evolutionary biology. His background is in yeast molecular biology.
Latest posts by Kester Jarvis (see all)
  • The agony of choice: conservation biology and choosing what to save - 18th March 2014
  • Sigma factor networking and bacterial versatility - 30th January 2014
  • Electricity generation and fish populations: how a power station provided a rich biological dataset - 4th September 2013

Why a turtle is (still) not a lepidosaur

27/07/2012

BMC Series blog

BMC Biology publishes today a research article (from Chiari et al) on the placement of turtles in the evolutionary tree, which supports their position as a… Read more »

Why a turtle is (still) not a lepidosaur

27/07/2012

On Biology

BMC Biology publishes today a research article (from Chiari et al) on the placement of turtles in the evolutionary tree, which supports their position as a… Read more »

An Emirates hat-trick for BMC Biology authors

18/05/2012

BMC Series blog

This week saw the annual BMC Research Awards presentations, in the Emirates Stadium and with a sports science theme, to acknowledge the forthcoming London… Read more »

An Emirates hat-trick for BMC Biology authors

18/05/2012

On Biology

This week saw the annual BMC Research Awards presentations, in the Emirates Stadium and with a sports science theme, to acknowledge the forthcoming London… Read more »

The future of evolutionary epidemiology

17/05/2012

BMC Series blog

The impending age of big data has been inescapable in recent discourse, both scientific and otherwise. The prevailing metaphors cast big data as a tsunami or an… Read more »

The future of evolutionary epidemiology

17/05/2012

On Biology

The impending age of big data has been inescapable in recent discourse, both scientific and otherwise. The prevailing metaphors cast big data as a tsunami or an… Read more »

Greater Depths to the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster

04/05/2012

On Biology

Two years after the Deepwater Horizon drilling disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the extent of its ecological impact is still to be fully assessed. In field… Read more »

Wasps, aphids and endosymbiotic bacteria: who wins the arms race?

24/02/2012

On Biology

There is a nursery rhyme that goes: “Big fleas have little fleas Upon their backs to bite ’em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, And so ad… Read more »

Probing genomic dark matter

04/08/2011

On Biology

In an editorial on the debate surrounding the role and abundance of “dark matter” RNA, BMC Biology concluded that we need to know more about the function of… Read more »

Battle of the sex chromosomes

05/05/2011

On Biology

It’s something of a platitude that men and women want different things, but it seems that just such a battle is fought out on the sex chromosomes. Genes… Read more »

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