New paper out in @ASNAmNat with Reinhard Bürger and Maria Servedio: "Reconciling Santa Rosalia: Both reproductive isolation and coexistence constrain diversification" (1/11) journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

Got to admire the optimism of Red Admirals, still egg-laying in late October on the Arne in S Dorset. But as I reported last year, some of these do seem to survive and become full grown larvae in early Spring. #climatechange BC Dorset 🦋

One month left to submit an abstract for the Gordon Research Seminar on Speciation 2025! This is a great platform for students and postdocs to discuss their work and get to know each other before the GRC conference. grc.org/speciation-grs…. Please spread the word :)

Burst of satellite DNA in Leptidea wood white butterflies and their putative role in karyotype evolution academic.oup.com/dnaresearch/ar… // Congrats Diogo C. Cabral-de-Mello et al!

The metabolic costs of meiotic drive biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_evobio

Excited to share our new paper on the macroevolution diapause in butterflies, now published in @evolution_letters! There's so much more to explore here and we hope this sparks further interest doi.org/10.1093/evlett…

No skull is alike. Even on the dead head moth's thorax. Happy Halloween!

We are excited to publish an modENCODE level epigenome data analyses for Dobzhansky's favourite Drosophila species D. pseudoobscura on Nature Communications and the paper link is here rdcu.be/dYQId My very talented and hard-working former Ph.D student Mujahid Ali almost single

Analyzing whole genome DNA methylation data? Our new method MethyLasso is out in NAR! It can help you identify regions with low or partial methylation (LMR, UMR, DMV, PMD, PMD) or differentially methylated regions (DMR) and was benchmarked against others doi.org/10.1093/nar/gk…

It has been a long journey with this one, but finally happy to see the last paper from my PhD published in Insect Systematics and Diversity 🎉 academic.oup.com/isd/article/8/…

@heliconians Is the Lepidoptera W chromosome ancestral? See: Orteu, A., et al. 2024. The Hypolimnas misippus genome supports a common origin of the W chromosome in Lepidoptera. Genome Biology and Evolution 16:evae215. doi.org/10.1093/gbe/ev…

‼️Job alert ‼️ We have an open position for a bioinformatician to work on songbird genomics until October next year: bit.ly/3YILiAO Please RT! 🐦🐦

Question from a student that I couldn’t answer - why are plants green? Why not have pigments that harvest the green light too?

Life history plate for the Wood White from F W Frohawk's Natural History of British Butterflies, 1920s

#EarlyView👀 study uncovers unprecedented data on long-distance movements and population sizes of three threatened butterfly species #OpenAccess #OriginalArticle⬇️ doi.org/10.1111/icad.1… @Royentsoc Wiley Ecology & Evolution

In a new preprint led by Nikhil Milind, we explored a fascinating paradox: For many traits the number of duplications or loss-of-function (LoF) mutations is correlated with phenotype. Curiously, for most traits, the AVERAGE direction of LoFs and Dups is the SAME. Why?

Our December issue is now online! A special issue Guest Edited by Masahito Tsuboi Thibault Latrille & Gaboriau Théo: Inferring macroevolutionary patterns and processes from microevolutionary mechanisms ow.ly/LHol50UjJql Artwork by Alberto Garcia Jimenez

FST and genetic diversity in an island model with background selection | PLoS Genetics journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/a…

SHE DID IT AGAIN! Wisdom, the world’s oldest known wild bird, is back with a new partner and just laid yet another egg. At an approximate age of 74, the queen of seabirds returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge last week and began interacting with a male.

I don't use this platform much anymore, but I'm happy to share our work on sexual selection and the genomics of speciation in barn swallows. Thanks for reading and sharing, if of interest! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…