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It has been many years since the paper on 'The Spandrels of San Marco,' and yet people have not abandoned the adaptationist program. It's refreshing to come across a paper like this! #NonAdaptiveForcesAreCool

📅 Less than a week left until the EE course starts at PopGen Vienna! 📸 Full schedule below ❓More details and further updates: popgen-vienna.at/training/exper…

We start the #EEcourse23 with an introductory lecture to Experimental Evolution + case studies by henrique teotonio

How did we lose our tail? A simple question.. but it wasn't really asked before! We discovered a plausible scenario for the genetic mechanism that led to tail loss. Amazing that such a big change may have been caused by such a small genetic event. nature.com/articles/s4158… Bo Xia

yeeii very happy - our new work is out: P-element invasions could get out of (host) control - special thanks to the reviewers, in retrospect the comments were super helpful pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38490738/

Dear friends of transposons: Genome Biology launched a special collection on 'TEs in genome evolution' with me and Juergen Schmitz as guest editors. We look forward to receiving your exciting new work by Dec 21 :) please RT biomedcentral.com/collections/TE…

A novel transposable element 🧬 in D. mel 🪰, check it out!

Our new pre-print is out! Grateful to Almorò, Dr. Sarah Signor and Robert Kofler for their precious collaboration. Unveiling the complete invasion history of D. mel: three horizontal transfers of TEs in the last 30 years biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Looking for a #PhDposition in #EvolutionaryBiology? Then consider applying to this position: mrborges23.github.io/mypage/positio… The project aims to develop phylogenetic methods to help us assess the prevalence and impact of gene flow during species divergence from phylogenomic data.

Super excited my first chapter is out now in Molecular Biology and Evolution! Thanks to reviewers and editor, we validated our genome-wide inferences with #DECUB in light of gene-specific heterogeneities on mutation biases and codon usage. 1/4 doi.org/10.1093/molbev…

Transposable elements invasions are tricky to identify, if you don't know the sequence of the TE. With our new tool -GenomeDelta- we provide a solution, which already helped us to find 3 new TE invasions in D. melanogaster (1) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New lab paper out on bioRxiv! Transposons sometimes preferentially jump into piRNA clusters, but is it ever to their advantage? @fan_of_gpu simulated TE invasions and found that its never good for the TE! Robert Kofler Almorò biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Incredibile conference! A lot of fun and a lot of great talks and posters on TEs at #cshlTE24 🧬

Struggling to find a reliable and up-to-date repeat library for your organism of interest? With GenomeDelta, you might not need one anymore to discover cool TE families! Check out our latest publication in Genome Biology: genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Super proud - our new work about two troublesome TEs spreading into several Droso species in just a few decades; it was so much fun to work with the amazing Riccardo Pianezza Almorò Dr. Sarah Signor rdcu.be/d5G1M

Our work is finally out! Two TEs that triggered a cascade of invasion after introduction to cosmopolitan species of Drosophila. Almorò Riccardo Pianezza Robert Kofler are such a pleasure to work with. nature.com/articles/s4146…