Living in a machine: Experiencing the world through a robotic avatar

Telepresence has become a main focus of research fuelled by the technological advancements in virtual reality hardware. In this paper we approach telepresence as a collection of sensory modalities and identify what the current state of the art allows with respect to user devices, robotic hardware and the mapping from one to the other

Genetics of postzygotic isolation and Haldane's rule in haplodiploids

The process of speciation has puzzled scientists for decades, but only recently they have they been able to reveal the genetic basis of reproductive isolation. Much emphasis has been on Haldane's rule, the observation that the heterogametic sex often suffers more from hybridization than the homogametic sex. Most research on Haldane's rule has focused on diploid organisms with chromosomal sex determination. We argue that species lacking chromosomal sex determination, such as haplodiploids, also follow Haldane's rule and thus should be included in the definition of this rule. We provide evidence for Haldane's rule in Nasonia wasps and describe how haplodiploids can be used to test the different theories that have been proposed to explain Haldane's rule. We discuss how the faster-male and faster-X theories can shape speciation differently in haplodiploids compared to diploids