Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!ohstpy!miavx1!miamiu!jahayes From: JAHAYES@MIAMIU.BITNET Newsgroups: bionet.population-bio Subject: Re: Please read Message-ID: <90276.104313JAHAYES@MIAMIU.BITNET> Date: 3 Oct 90 15:43:13 GMT References: <3262.27087b8c@cc.helsinki.fi> Organization: Miami University - Academic Computer Service Lines: 34 I have to disagree with Dr. Kristofferson (hope I got that right!). Last winter I posted a request for suggested references on the interaction between gene flow and local selection, and got zero responses. I eventually found a couple of references myself (but, the paper I needed them for was rejected anyway :-( ). And I hate to bring this up, but there is a certain degree of reticence on the part of theorists, because one's work can so easily be, uh, "borrowed" by others. I had the unfortunate ex- perience of having a discussion with a professor (who shall remain nameless) on a problem I was working on turn into a paper for him in Nature....one experience like that can lead to a lot of quiet on the net. But I'm safe now as I no longer have any really good ideas :-). Interestingly enough, there is currently a discussion in sci.bio about peculiar sex ratios in sequential hermaphrodites, and I have been able to inject a fair amount of science into that thread. I think the reason for the lack of traffic in this group is exactly that suggested by the first poster, that is, that there are so few pop-biologists of any sub-discipline that are net-literate. I know several hundred workers in my field, and of those one (yes, ONE!) knows enough to be able to send me e-mail. I encourage anyone out there to post queries, or comments, or maybe reviews of current articles (e.g. "I read in American Naturalist an article which I found really irritating because...."). I have a couple of those in my files that came out recently and I would be happy to give that kind of thread a push. Josh Hayes, Zoology Department, Miami University, Oxford OH 45056 voice: 513-529-1679 fax: 513-529-6900 jahayes@miamiu.bitnet, or jahayes@miamiu.acs.muohio.edu Now look inside; what do you see? That's easy: that's a pickle.