Welcome to the Molecular Ecology podcasts!

Below you will find in-depth and interesting discussions about special articles and cutting edge-research that is published in the journal which you can download for free and listen to at your leisure. Molecular Ecology publishes papers that utilize molecular genetic techniques to address consequential questions in ecology, evolution, behaviour and conservation.

January 2008

Issue 17:1 of Molecular Ecology was a Special Issue entitled "Evolutionary change in human-altered environments". The papers presented in this issue are a result of a global summit held at the Institute of the Environment ( UCLA) in 2007, which brought together both evolutionary scientists and policy-makers from around the world. The latest Molecular Ecology podcast features interviews with Tom Smith (UCLA) and Louis Bernatchez (Université Laval).[Interviewing journalist: John Whitfield]

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(mp3 file, 27.5MB, 38 minutes 15 seconds)

Read the free Special Issue on Blackwell Synergy

July 2007

The podcast is an interview with Amy Bouck (Postdoctoral Associate at Duke University and UNC Chapel Hill) on her article "The molecular ecologist's guide to expressed sequence tags". [Interviewing journalist: John Whitfield]

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(mp3 file, 14 MB, 20 minutes 31 seconds)

Read the free article on Blackwell Synergy.

May 2007

The first Molecular Ecology podcast is an interview with Loren Rieseberg (Editor-in-Chief of Molecular Ecology and Professor of Biology at University of British Columbia) on his article "Microarray analysis reveals differential gene expression in hybrid sunflower species".[Interviewing journalist: John Whitfield]

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(mp3 file, 10.7 MB, 22 minutes 17 seconds).

Read the free article on Blackwell Synergy.