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"Parallel adaptation in fish: same genes used over and over"Jerry Coyne, Why Evolution is True (April 10, 2011)
 
"Praise for informative new stickleback genome browser."OpenHelix (April 8, 2012)
 
"Stickleback genome reveals detail of evolution's repeated experiment"Discover Magazine (April 5, 2012)
 
"Little fish yields big insights into evolution."Roxanne Palmer, International Business Times (April 4, 2012)
 
"Sticklebacks reveal path of evolution."Helen Shen, Nature News (April 4, 2012)
 
"Genomics: Stickleback is the catch of the day"Hopi Hoekstra, Nature News & Views (April 4, 2012)
 
"How evolution copies itself"Elizabeth Pennisi, Science (April 4, 2012)
 
"Tiny fish bares all: New insights on evolution from study of sticklebacks"Stanford Medicine News (April 4, 2012)
 
"Analysis of Stickleback Genome Sequence Catches Evolution in Action"HHMI News (April 4, 2012)
 
"Stickleback genome holds clues to adaptive evolution"Broad Institute News (April 4, 2012)
 
"Why we have plenty of fish in the sea"Hudson Alpha News (April 4, 2012)
 
"Panda's Thumb: Sticklebacks, manatees, and creationists (January, 2012)
 
"Junk DNA is essential in evolution: NPR All Things Considered broadcast featuring research of postdoc Craig Lowe"(August 19, 2011)
 
"David Kingsley elected to National Academy of Sciences"(May 3, 2011)
 
"Missing bits of DNA may define humans" Science News (April 9th, 2011)
 
"Penile Spines" versus "Pearly Penile Papules" in Humans
 
"Big brains and spineless penises: How DNA deletions may have produced uniquely human traits" The Scientist (March, 2011)
 
"Humans ditched DNA to evolve smooth penises and bigger brains" Nature News (March 2011)
 
"Control Altered by Deletion- is lost DNA behind our bigger brains and spineless penises?" Discover Magazine (March, 2011)
 
"How the human penis lost its spines" CNN Health (March, 2011)
 
"How men lost their penis spines" MSNBC (March, 2011)
 
"Sticklebacks Help Explain Human Evolution" National Public Radio: All Things Considered (July 5th, 2010)
Listen to Radio Broadcast: http://public.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2010/07/20100705_atc_14.mp3?dl=1
 
"How small genetic changes can have large effects" Nature Journal Club (May 6th, 2010)
 
"The genetic basis of adaptive evolution" Evolution, Development and Genomics (April 2th, 2010)
 
"Evolution: Revenge of the hopeful monster" Nature (2010) 463:864-867
 
"Beyond Darwin's wildest dreams" Genome Technology (February, 2010)
 
"Recurrent cis-regulatory evolution" Nature Genetics Research Highlights (February, 2010)
 
"What are best science papers of the last decade?" Discover Magazine (December, 2009/January, 2010)
 
"What Darwin Never Knew" NOVA/PBS Documentary (Aired December 29th, 2009)
(Watch "Chapter 14: Genetic Switches" for lab's work on sticklebacks and hindlimb evolution)
 
"Of fish and flies: the evolutionary role of genes" NPR: All Things Considered (December 18th, 2009)
 
"Spineless Fish and Dark Flies Prove Gene Regulation Crucial" Science (December 18th, 2009)
 
"Sticklebacks hone defenses through small DNA deletions" HHMI News (December, 2009)
 
"Sticklebacks, regulatory evolution, and the Holy Grail of adaptation research" Science Meeting report (November, 2009)
 
"A creationist at the Chicago Darwin 2009 meeting" Pharyngula (November, 2009)
 
"Sex chromosomes linked to evolution of new species" Nature News (November, 2009)
 
Dr. Kingsley receives Conklin Medal in Developmental Biology Society for Developmental Biology (July, 2009)
 
"Pelvis has left the building"National Science Foundation News (June 4, 2009)
 
"Anatomy specific enhancers of BMP genes fine tune size and shape of individual bones" GGH (June, 2009)
 
"Bmp5 Enhancers as Regulatory Micromanagers" Nature Genetics Research Highlights, (February, 2009)
 
"Darwin's Fishes" Seattle Times,, (February 15, 2009)
 
"From Atoms to Traits" Scientific American, January 2009
Special 150th anniversary issue on The Evolution of Evolution.
 
Other 2009 commemorative events for Charles Darwin's 200th birthday
and the 150th anniversary of the Origin of Species (1859):
           02/09 NIH Symposium: Darwin @ 200: Evolution, genomics, medicine
           06/09 Cold Spring Harbor: Evolution: The Molecular Landscape
           07/09 Darwin Anniversary Festival in Cambridge England
           10/09 Darwin/Chicago 2009
 
"Evolution is a Repeater" New York Times, (January 30, 2008)
 
Skin Color Evolution in Fish and Humans, Cell (2007):
          "Sticklebacks and humans walk hand in fin to lighter skin." Cell. 131: 11-13
          Cell podcast
          Cell cover
 
"Manatee Bones Lead to New Insight on Evolution" Science Daily (Aug. 31, 2006)
 
"Macroevolution: Alive and Well in Sticklebacks" Am. Biology Teacher (2006) 68: 5-6
 
Science Breakthrough of the Year: "Evolution in Action" (2005):
          Summary Science (2005) 310: 1869
          Full article Science (2005) 310: 1878
          Video presentation
          NPR's Talk of the Nation (Dec. 30, 2005)
 
HHMI 2005 Holiday Lectures on Evolution (Sean Carroll and David Kingsley):
          Overview and free DVD of Four Public Lectures
          Rotating 3-D image of stickleback skeleton
          Fossil record of stickleback evolution
          Sticklebacks on Jeopardy Quiz Show (aired October 2005, large file, 7.47 MB)
 
Emergence of sticklebacks as a new "supermodel"for evolutionary studies Science (2005) 307: 1890-191
 
"Evolutionary genetics - Stickleback's view of sex chromosome evolution" Heredity (2005) 94: 275-276
 
"Big cross" lands sticklebacks in the spotlight The Scientist (2004) 18:16-17
 
"Sex determination: Primitive Y chromosomes in fish" Curr Biol (2004) 18: R745-747
 
"Evolutionary biology: Lost and found" Nature (2004) 428: 703-704
 
"Reduce your pelvis in 10,000 years or less" Dev. Cell (2004) 6: 613-614
 
"Towards a spineless stickleback" Heredity (2004) 93: 239-240
 
"Morphological diversity: Taking the spine out of three-spine stickleback" Curr Biol (2004) 14: R422-R424
 
"Evolutionary biology - Changing a fish's bony armor in the wink of a gene" Science (2004) 304: 1736+
 
"BMP signaling maintains healthy joint cartilage" PLoS Biol (2004) 2: e395
 
"News and Views: Joint approach" Nature (2004) 431: 921
 
"Of Joints and Genes" HHMI Bulletin (June 2003)
 
"Big genes are back" The Scientist (2002) 16: 24-25
 
"A genetic attack on the defense complex" BioEssays (2002) 24: 487-489
 
"Evolution: sticklebacks finally get a map" Nature Genetics (2002) 3: 84
 
"The ank gene story" Arthritis Research (2001) 3: 77-79
 
"A gene for smooth running joints?" Science (2000) 289: 225-226
 
 "Natural tartar control for joints?" Science (2000) 289: 213
 
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