Genetic load: genomic estimates and applications in non-model animals go.nature.com/3LiVrfX #Review by Giorgio Bertorelle, Francesca Raffini Lab, Mirte Bosse, [email protected], Alessio Iannucci, EmilianoTrucchi, Hernán Morales & Cock van Oosterhout Wageningen U&R WUR Animal Sciences VU Faculteit der Bètawetenschappen Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics

Bertorelle et al. review the definition of the genetic load and its components as well as the impact of whole-genome sequencing on the theoretical and applied study of the genetic load

It did not take place in January, but it will happen in 2022! We're excited to announce the summer edition of the evomics Workshop on Population and Speciation Genomics (#wpsg2022). With @disequilibber, Leonie Moyle, Thorfinn Korneliussen, Matthew Hahn, Walter Salzburger Lab,... (1/3)

Would you fancy an Evolutionary Biology conference in Italy? EVOLUZIONE2022, Ancona, 4-7 September: sibe-iseb.it/ancona-2022 SIBE-Società italiana di biologia evoluzionistica UnivPM European Reference Genome Atlas

Just in time for the evomics Workshop on Population and Speciation Genomics #WPSG2022 we managed to put together a manuscript about it: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

This Sunday the world celebrated the #InternationalDayforBiodiversity. Listen as some ERGA members share their thoughts on what Biodiversity means to them! bit.ly/3wM7xry EmilianoTrucchi Iliana Bista @bedhom @RubySeadragon @Naturalis_Sci @UU_University University of Zurich Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle

Mark your calendars! This time next year, SMBE's annual conference will be in person in Ferrara, Italy on July 23-27! We look forward to seeing you and hearing about your science in a beautiful and historic setting! Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution

..and structural analyses (by mollab) of one of the candidate genes under selection, the noxious cold receptor #TRPM8, suggest tolerance for colder temperature in Emperor penguin! With Lino Ometto Silvia Fuselli @feteceh Pirri Le Bohec Perta Ancona Zane

Happy to say that this paper is FINALLY out!! It's been a hard process and I am so thankful to all my co-authors and everyone else that stuck with me. Sissel Jentoft kjetill s jakobsen Mark Ravinet Paul Berg EmilianoTrucchi PNAS Nexus doi.org/10.1093/pnasne…

Finally our work on a Sensitive, variant-robust POC device for SARS-CoV-2 detection based on a ACE2 chimera is out on Nano Today! Great work from a multidisciplinary and international team. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… UnivPM Stefano Motta Filippo Mancia EmilianoTrucchi Francesco Cicconardi

New #HeredityPodcast: Life in the cold In this episode, EmilianoTrucchi and Céline Le Bohec discuss the genetic basis of cold adaptation in the emperor penguin. Listen now: bit.ly/3YApVAO The Genetics Society CNRS 🌍 AWI Media

** Abstract Submissions for #SMBE23 is now open ** Find your favourite symposium at smbe2023.org Travel awards are available Registration will open on 20 Feb See you in Ferrara! Welcome to Italy! SMBEmeetings

Yeah, our paper about the evomics Workshop on Population and Speciation Genomics is out in BMC Evolution: Education and Outreach: evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… With Julia MI Barth, Scott Handley, Daniel Kintzl, Guy Leonard, Milan Malinsky, Britta Meyer🐦🐟🍫☕️ , Walter Salzburger Lab, Jan Stefka, EmilianoTrucchi

Recommended by Emiliano Trucchi for PCI Evolutionary Biology based on published reviews by Liisa Loog and 2 anonymous reviewers #OpenScience doi.org/10.24072/pci.e…

Check out the new preprint by EmilianoTrucchi on the drivers of purifying selection in large penguin populations 👇👇👇

We have a new preprint quantifying the anti-correlation between selection and gene expression in King and Emperor penguins 🐧 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Gene expression is the main driver of purifying selection in large penguin populations. bioRxiv, ver. 2 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Evolutionary Biology. doi.org/10.1101/2023.0… recommended by Bruce Rannala for PCI Evolutionary Biology… 🔽

...and we got recommended in PCI Evol Biol! evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec?a…. Check out our revised version with great add-ons by Thibault Latrille. Main THM: purifying selection is effective even at rather small pop size on ca. half of the genes due to high gene exp = high sel coef

Our preprint exploring the role of Ne and gene expression on purifying selection in penguins has been recommended by PCI Evolutionary Biology! Approaches can be extended to many non-model organisms, including using expression bins as a proxy for selection coefficients evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec?i…

Happy Slim-ulating in Italy!!