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The statute of limitations
Author(s) -
Geedey C Kevin,
Muskavitch Karen,
Dudycha Jeffry L.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
frontiers in ecology and the environment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.918
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1540-9309
pISSN - 1540-9295
DOI - 10.1890/1540-9295(2004)002[0217:tsol]2.0.co;2
Subject(s) - statute , statute of limitations , political science , law
Eileen is a professor at Enormous State University. Her recent work on coral populations has been fruitful and she can hardly find the time to follow up on all her ideas. ESU has an informal "brown bag" seminar series in which graduate students and faculty present and critique ideas and data that are formative or in-progress. A year ago, Eileen presented an intriguing new idea: a Genetic Equilibrium Model, which she referred to as GEM. Bill, one of her departmental colleagues, was enthusiastic about the concept. Bill had just returned from a sabbatical with reams of data on the spatial distribution of genotypes in bracket fungi. Bill thought that GEM would be a great explanation for some of the patterns in his data. Bill approached Eileen afterwards and offered to collaborate by publishing GEM along widi tests of the model using his data. Eileen politely declined. She wanted to test it herself, and she expected that someone in her lab would pursue the idea soon. A year after her seminar, Eileen hasn't published GEM and all of her stu? dents are busy with other projects. Bill and Eileen are discussing it in Eileen's office.