Next year on this date lets all meet again in #Algarve, Portugal! 👩🏽‍🔬🧑🏿‍🔬👩🏻‍🔬🧑🏼‍🔬 Please RT and help us spreading the word! #DevBio

Very, very, happy and proud about all the collaborative work that went into this manuscript, including key experimental work that gets us closer to understanding the origins of novel complex traits in organisms. pnas.org/content/119/8/…

Here is a new perspective that proposes that modular tissue-specific enhancers derive from pleiotropic enhancers via the neutral DDC process (duplication, degeneration and complementation) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

It also proposes that hotspot loci of evolution happen primarily in genes that have been modularized, anywhere in a gene-regulatory network.

NUS researchers propose that the causes of eye colour variation in primates may, in part, be explained by differences in lighting in the habitats of primate species. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Excited for this - Presenting my single-cell work for the first time!! Glad I could get a visa and finally make it in person. #ScienceTwitter

Very proud of this work by very talented Yuji Matsuoka: …s-biologists-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/dev/article/14…

Call for Symposia for Biology of Butterflies Conference 2023 #BoB2023 is open now! For more details, visit the conference web: biologyofbutterflies.org #butterflies #insect #Prague Please RT!

Start thinking ahead to those winter days…

The #BoB2023 Conference website has just been released! bob2023.cz You will find information on organisers, scientific symposia, excursions, registration deadlines and fees, venue, social events... Registration will be opened in the next week! Please RT! #butterflies

Ever wonder about the evolutionary origin of caterpillar abdominal legs? They seem to derive from an endite GRN. news.nus.edu.sg/how-do-caterpi…

Glad to share my last thesis chapter! We show that a 22nt micro-RNA controls melanic wing patterns in Lepidoptera biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I am looking for an enthusiastic student who wants to perform research on sound communication in butterflies, or on odor learning in butterfly larvae, at the organismal and/or molecular levels (e.g., brain circuitry and single-cell gene expression levels). Fellowship available!

For those interested in satyrid butterflies, here is the annotated genome of a new species: Mycalesis mineus academic.oup.com/gbe/article/do…

Did you realize that butterflies hear, and being able to hear the presence of a competitor increases mating success? royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.109…

Butterfly larvae can pass on a learned odor preference to other larvae via a simple hemolymph transfusion. Short film about the work (published today) by my daughter Florence: youtu.be/qSABUSHdrjQ

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A microRNA is the effector gene of a classic evolutionary hotspot locus | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Short documentary movie about a micro RNA with a mega impact on lepidopteran coloration (research led by Shen Tian featured in Science): youtu.be/xsjlZWldn8s

For those interested in the evolution of phenotypic plasticity - Shen Tian et al. found that a novel bit of DNA - a Hox gene promoter in the genome of satyrid butterflies - boosts plasticity in the size of their eyespots in response to temperature. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…