Methods will be attending the next ITN Speciation conference 2012 in Jyväskylä, Finland and to mark the occasion, the editorial team has put together a list of some our most relevant work in speciation and evolution.

Applications – concise papers describing new software, equipment, or other practical tools:

• PASSaGE: Pattern Analysis, Spatial Statistics and Geographic Exegesis. Version 2
  by Micheal Rosenberg and Corey Anderson
• RBrownie: an R package for testing hypotheses about rates of evolutionary change
  by Conrad Stack, Luke Harmon and Brian O’Meara
• MOTMOT: models of trait macroevolution on trees
  by Gavin Thomas and Rob Freckleton
• Python based GIS tools for landscape genetics: visualising genetic relatedness and measuring landscape connectivity
  by Thomas Etherington

Molecular ecology, phylogeny and evolution

• Discriminating plant species in a local temperate flora using the rbcL plus matK DNA barcode
  by Kevin Burgess, Aron Fazekas, Prasad Kesanakurti, Sean Graham, Brian Husband, Steven Newmaster, Diana Percy, Mehrdad Hajibabaei and Spencer Barrett
• Threshold choice and the analysis of protein marking data in long-distance dispersal studies
  by Frances Sivakoff, Jay Rosenheim and James Hagler
• Measuring the temporal structure in serially sampled phylogenies
  by Rebecca Gray, Oliver Pybus and Marco Salemi
• A simple polytomy resolver for dated phylogenies
  by Tyler Kuhn, Arne Mooers and Gavin Thomas
• Accounting for uncertainty in species delineation during the analysis of environmental DNA sequence data
  by Jeff Powell

If you are going there, stop by to talk to me, Graziella Iossa, journal coordinator. See you on 26-28 February, 2012, at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland!