1/5 new paper: BUMBLEBEE BIOGEOGRAPHY (map of species richness) conserves deep historical patterns precisely because bbs are poor at dispersing & establishing over seas/deserts, so species don’t occur everywhere they could - but seas/deserts come & go bit.ly/3wkl6iz

Register & submit your abstract now for BeeCon2022! #BeeCon is a hybrid (virtual & in person) conference at YorkU Oct 13-14 that brings local through international bee biologists together to discuss #bee behaviour, taxonomy, genomics, ecology, conservation yorku.ca/bees/beecon/

First PhD paper officially published! 🐝 Shorter, better, faster, stronger? Comparing the identification performance of full-length and mini-DNA barcodes for apid bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) 🐝 With my dear supervisors Maríndia Deprá and Elaine Françoso! ➡ rdcu.be/cViWD

New work out led by Ryan Weaver showing strong signatures of mitonuclear coevolution in mammals, but limited evidence for nuclear compensation. Very cool and convincing results! academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-ar…

Webinar Sobre Insetos Sociais - dia 31/01 às 18h00 "O DNA mitocondrial é legal!", Dra. Elaine Françoso, Royal Holloway University of London, UK. youtu.be/50IS87CBVZo

EXCLUSIVO: Governo Lula vai aumentar bolsas de mestrado e doutorado em cerca de 40%; veja valores bit.ly/3lAcJgp

Using PAML to detect positive selection but need some guidance? Paschalia Kapli , Ziheng Yang's Group , and I have been working on a protocol that we hope you find useful. The "Beginner's Guide on the Use of PAML to Detect Positive Selection" is now available! academic.oup.com/mbe/article/40… (1/n)

How we think and talk about mitochondria matters to our science and to newcomers in the field. The powerhouse analogy is expired and we need specific vocabulary to capture the beautiful complexity of mitochondrial biology. We propose a framework and some nomenclature.

Weird and wonderful mitogenomes 🧬 in stingless bees - Elaine Françoso’s latest cool paper finds duplicated mtDNA genomes in stingless 🐝 What’s going on, you wonder…read more for free here! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Rapid evolution, rearrangements and whole genome duplication 😱 This is one of the most weird mitogenomes described so far!! 🐝 🧬

What can mitochondrial genomes tell us about bumblebee phylogenetics? Why so many gene rearrangements? Are the mitogenomes of cuckoo bumblebees evolving under distinct selective constraints? Check this and more in Poster 112 today at 5:30. Let's chat! #Evol2023 🧬🐝

A mind-blowing paper has come out today in nature In 2016, JC Venter Institute scientists trimmed a bacterial genome to its barest minimum required for life to synthesize what they called a "minimal genome" (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…). Today, a group of scientists from

Successful expedition to collect #bumblebees in the Alps 🗻🇨🇭 Astonishing view and a huge variety of beautiful 🐝🐝 collected! Thanks to Leonardo Gonçalves, Alexandre Zuntini, Paul Williams, Mark Brown, Christophe Praz, and my dear Nina :) @MSCActions NERC Environmental Omics Facility 🧬 #EVOBOMICS

🐝🐜Consider joining us for the #ice2024 in Kyoto 🇯🇵 Natalia S. Araujo, Cintia Oi and I are organising the symposium "Genetics & Genomics in Ecology and Evolution of Social Insects (section 17)". We would be delighted to receive your abstracts for talk or poster presentations!

How can we maximise the discoverability and impact of our papers? 🤔 In this preprint, we argue that choosing the right keywords is critical. We provide a practical guide to authors + recommendations to editors 📜 bioRxiv tinyurl.com/2vky49m7 🧵(1/15)

O que essa aranha está fazendo do lado dessa estrutura, e por qual motivo isso é tão interessante? Me acompanhem nesse pequeno fio onde eu falo pra vocês desse comportamento bem interessante que eu registrei hoje! +

SAVE THE DATE! Join us for the 9th iBOL conference in #Belém, Pará, #Brazil September 3-6, 2024. Stay tuned for conference updates by visiting: dnabarcodingconference.com #DNAbarcode #biodiversity #science

Excited to share a new chapter of my PhD, now published in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society Our research brings fresh insights into bumblebee evolution and systematics using mitochondrial genomes! 🐝 doi.org/10.1093/zoolin… Special thanks to my supervisors Maríndia Deprá and Elaine Françoso 🙌

Bumblebees, cute mysteries of the sky. Still understudied, the evolution of their mitochondrial DNA is found to support the #Monophyly status of Bombus & its subgenera, offering exciting opportunities for future research in this field! 🐝 academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/adv… The Linnean Society of London