Ready for more #SMBEeverywhere? We are! #GS6 is the next Global Symposium on the #Genetics of #Adaptation, taking place at the end of this week (11/21 -11/22) organized by Dr. @krushnamegh Kunte and Dr. @DeepaAgashe Please join us! Some reminders.... 1/3

Congrats to all involved in this seminal paper describing a high-throughput multispectral imaging system for Lepidoptera and other insects! nature.com/articles/s4200…

Ending the year on a good note

Macroevolution of protective coloration across #caterpillars reflects relationships with host plants #ProcB #OpenAccess #Evolution #Ecology ow.ly/ewJZ50MtzwW @moria_robinson

Our new #butterfly🦋 #evolution paper is finally out in Science Advances. "Evidence for a single, ancient origin of a genus-wide alternative life history strategy": science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #Butterflies🦋 #Color #AncientPolymorphisms #introgression #CRISPR🧵🧵🧵

Chromosome Fissions and Fusions Act as Barriers to Gene Flow between Brenthis Fritillary Butterflies buff.ly/3lIutXu #science #evolution #biology #genome

rtrees: an R package to assemble phylogenetic trees from megatrees onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… #rstats #phylogeny #supertree

[Thread] New paper out in Molecular Ecology on the relationship between DNA methylation and gene expression in the migratory painted lady butterfly! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me… (Pic by Niclas Backström)

After ~7 yr of work, it's finally out! We present a molecular phylogeny of butterflies sampling >90% of genera & >2000 spp. Butterflies emerged ~100 million yr ago in North America and first fed on legumes. Thanks to all 87 co-authors from 28 countries! rdcu.be/dcaVU

📢New study🦋"Rapid radiation of ant parasitic butterflies during the Miocene aridification of Africa" analysed phylogeography of Lepidochrysops, African butterflies associated with ants. By Marianne Espeland, co-authored by Robert Tropek in Ecology and Evolution onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Genomics, Population Divergence, and Historical Demography of the World's Largest and Endangered #Butterfly, The Queen Alexandra's Birdwing buff.ly/3M472Sy #science #evolution #biology #genome

New paper alert! Symbionts have allowed insects to colonise novel feeding niches, but how has this influenced diversification? In NatureEcoEvo we show that symbionts are associated with extreme highs and lows of insect diversification. More below: nature.com/articles/s4155…

Now published in a food processing special issue at Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Evan Economo and my review of ant feeding structure and function. Open access! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Open project assistant/ postdoc positions in computational biology, bioinformatics and immunology "Exploring novel variants of antimicrobial peptides of therapeutic relevance against AMR" indiabioscience.org/orgs/ashoka-un…

Ashoka University invites applications for Global Immunocourse 13-23 Dec 2024 (Deadline is 27 Oct). Indian students pursuing their Master's degree are welcome to apply. Please circulate Trivedi School of BioSciences, Ashoka University Somak Raychaudhury Anurag Agrawal Gautam Menon K. VijayRaghavan To apply, scan the QR Code

Ashoka University invites applications from Master's students with a keen interest in immunology to participate in the Global Immunocourse to be hosted at Ashoka University from December 13 to December 22, 2024. The Global Immunocourse is designed to provide a comprehensive

Our new paper on host evolution against coinfection is now published in @PNAS. Congrats to the colleagues srijan seal ImRoZE . Thanks to Simons-Ashoka Early Career Fellowship Trivedi School of BioSciences, Ashoka University and Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability (3CS).

Wonderful to see this collaborative effort published in Annual Reviews Ecology, Evolution & Systematics, where we compiled the recent progress and highlighted emerging questions in Immunology from an evolutionary and ecological standpoint. annualreviews.org/content/journa…

Our new paper shows the role of microbiota in driving sex-specific differences in immunity and infection outcomes; Royal Society Publishing #BiologyLetters. Congratulations to srijan seal for leading the work BEE_Ashoka Ashoka University Trivedi School of BioSciences, Ashoka University DBT/WT India Alliance royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

My first butterfly paper is now published in Ecology Letters! Together with my colleagues, we explore the causes of female colour variation in Blue Butterflies (Polyommatus icarus), particularly roles of geographic variation and phenotypic plasticity: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el…