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About the Blog Author
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EXAMPLE: Dr. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield is an evolutionary ecologist and assistant professor of biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She works on life cycle and reproductive system evolution in algae and invertebrates. Follow Stacy on Twitter @quooddy or via her lab’s website.
Blog text
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EXAMPLE: Most eukaryotes are not limited to sex. Instead, they often alternate between sexual and asexual reproduction (= clonality). Partial clonality has profound
Dr. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield
University of Alabama at Birmingham
impacts on species’ ecological success and their ability to evolve in response to environmental change (Orive et al. 2017).
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References
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Orive ME, Barfield M, Fernandez C, Hold RD (2017) Effects of clonal reproduction on evolutionary rescue. The American Naturalist. 190. 469-490.
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Stacy Krueger-Hadfield lab website: http://www.quooddy.com/
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@quooddy link: https://twitter.com/quooddy
Orive et al. 2017: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/693006
Use whole links for references, not just the digital object identifier (DOI). This is not a link: 10.1093/jhered/esab019. This is a link: https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esab019
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