Successful nesting leads to #divorce in #Plovers. Pairs that fail stay together and #tryagain. Plovers that divorced their mates and simultaneously deserted their broods produced more offspring in a season than parents that retained their mate. dlvr.it/RhCtsv

1/3 Did you know that #Mistassini Lake is #Quebec's largest lake (2335km2, 180m in depth)? It is the pride and home of the #Cree Nation of Mistissini. Mistassini means 'big rock' in Cree after this specific rock at the lake's outlet, an important historical meeting place.

2/3 #Mistassini Lake remains pristine despite its large size. The lake harbours diverse populations/forms within several fishes that are important for local fisheries (e.g. #brooktrout, #walleye, #laketrout, #pike). Check out this incredible variation in Mistassini's lake trout!

Urbanization can clearly be bad for native wildlife. But some species do fine as cities arise. Could dispersal ability influence persistence? Here’s a short thread about our new paper in Evolutionary Applications where we use SNP data to compare gene flow in 2 native “synanthropic” mammals

Our first weekly video to introduce you to our projects! Sozos Michaelides, a postdoctoral research associate at Concordia University is presenting on lake trout and walleye. #FISHES #Laketrout #Walleye #MistassiniLake #GreatBearLake youtu.be/Li8kYmZ44MM via YouTube

New paper: "Sex, males & hermaphrodites in the scale insect Icerya purchasi", w/ @AndrewMongue Sozos Michaelides Oliver Coombe Alejandro Tena Dong-Soon Kim Benjamin Normark Mark Hoddle & Laura Ross onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ev… pic:commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:… Evolution Journal #evolution

Our team has put together a synthesis of #brooktrout & #walleye populations of Albanel, Mistassini & Waconichi for local fisheries management. It can be downloaded on our website: fishes-project.ibis.ulaval.ca/publications/

MHC diversity in small fragmented fish populations shows a high-resolution population structure than the neutral genetic markers nature.com/articles/s4159…

Proud to have worked with Sozos Michaelides on this paper showing origin and spread of Cuban Allison’s anoles in Tampa. Initiated by first author and #citizenscientist Dolores Morris (pic credit) and daughter based on an iNaturalist observation! pdf: caribbeanherpetology.org/pdfs/ch78.pdf

Thrilled to share our new study PNASNews on drivers of hybridization in invasive brown anoles. We asked if the breakdown of extrinsic isolation is involved, investigated the genomics of adaptation, and identified an X chromosome limb length locus! (pnas.org/content/118/42…)…1/10

Recognizing all of the women involved in FISHES and their contribution to fish, fishing, sustainable fisheries and food security. Tag your FISHES women in action. #internationalwomensday #IWD2022 #womeninstem

So excited about three days filled with activities centered around #fish and #twoeyedseeing, including discussions, a Mistassini fish Trivia, and a Mistassini fish rap break! looking forward to being in the beautiful Cree community of Mistissini...

New preprint: A global assessment of effective population sizes highlights consistent taxonomic differences in meeting the 50/500 rule, and reduced Ne in many areas with greater human footprint biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Led by Shannon + super team Concordia University Dalhousie University

Great talk by Jeremy FiveCrows about sharing traditional knowledge across generations for fishery recovery kicking off our session ‘Interweaving Traditional Ecological Knowledge with genomic approaches’ American Fisheries Society

Nice talk by Dani Bartz about her #eDNA work to assess shark nursery habitats in Hilo #Hawaii American Fisheries Society

Interesting talk by Jason Johns on how to use genomic tools for marine stewardship for reef habitats #onepeopleonereef UC Santa Barbara American Fisheries Society

Really enjoyed listening to Keith Parker at our session showing insights about the cultural values of Pacific Lamprey to the Yurok tribe and the genetic background of specific maturation ecotypes #afs154 American Fisheries Society