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1/14/11
Paper on resequencing selected lines of chickens Please add any thoughts here

Whatever happened to the Doodle to reschedule the meeting time?

1/7/11
Papers on the developmental hourglass.

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Some of yaniv's thoughts
I'm generally impressed by the consistency of the developmental hourglass (dh) pattern across various categories (phenotypic, expression, age of genes, dN...).

There are a few suggested evolutionary explanations for the dh, which do we like?

Although we like the dh now Darwin thought things where most similar when youngest. I think this is still viable. How much of the bottom of the hourglass is due to maternal effect genes? Is the thin part of the glass the maternal-zygotic transition?

Kalinka et al: The most hourglass like expression was in the genes controlling gene expression, suggesting that this is a top down sort of thing.

Loso & Tautz: I'm a bit skeptical of phylostratigraphy, but haven't heard much of it before... any thoughts or comments?