Why a turtle is (still) not a lepidosaur
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 »
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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 »