Methods Digest – May 2010

Here is the latest methods digest:- In Evolution Marta Szulkin, Nicolas Bierne and Patrice David have  perspective piece on measuring correlations between fitness and heterozygosity. Günter Wagner introduces a new approach to measuring fitness. Max Shpak and colleagues introduce an approach to coalescent modelling in populations that are structured and fluctuate seasonally. Richard Reynolds and colleagues look at the problem of measuring selection gradients. Valério Pillar … Continue reading Methods Digest – May 2010

Allometry, statistics, telemetry and physiology – new papers online

Four more papers have gone online this month and we are close to being able to put together the first issue of the journal! In the first new paper to be published Adrian Barnett and colleagues present a comparison of methods for selecting the correct variance structure for longitudinal data. This is likely to be of considerable interest as it is a paper about how … Continue reading Allometry, statistics, telemetry and physiology – new papers online