Can chromosomal inversions work together to create stronger reproductive barriers? They do in Littorina snails!
doi.org/10.1093/evlett…

Now in Evolution Letters by Alan Le Moan, Sean Stankowski, M Rafajlović, O Ortega-Martinez, Rui Faria, RK Butlin, & K Johannesson.

📷: Patrik Larsson

Thrilled to share our latest review on sex-chromosome evolution! We delve into newly developed theories and explore potential ways to test them. Hope you find it insightful!

Why do sex chromosomes progressively lose recombination?
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#ERGASeminar | 👉Got a genome? get a phylome!

Join Toni Gabaldón on Monday 29.04 at 12:00 CEST to learn more about the many applications of the #phylome approach and how to implement it on newly-sequenced #genomes .
BSC-CNS IRB Barcelona Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE)
▶️erga-biodiversity.eu/post/got-a-gen…

How do structural variants shape avian phenotypes?
This is what Maria Recuerda Carrasco learned mainly from chickens.

doi.org/10.1111/mec.17…
(pic by Dennis G. Jarvis - CC BY-SA 2.0)

#ERGASeminars | Don't miss this upcoming seminar with Toni Gabaldón (@BSC_CNS , IRB Barcelona) and learn how the #Phylome approach can have various applications in #ComparativeGenomics 🧬

🗓️ April 29 - 12:00 CEST

Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE) Earth BioGenome Project

👉erga-biodiversity.eu/post/got-a-gen…

Cross-kingdom RNA interference mediated by insect salivary microRNAs may suppress plant immunity | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Wondering how you can join #ERGA ?

To become an #ERGA member all you need to do is fill our short registration form: erga-biodiversity.eu/register

Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE) Earth BioGenome Project

Face cells in a paper wasp!!

Really stoked for this result by Chris Jernigan in the new lab pre-print in collaboration with W Freiwald.

These wasps recognize faces and like primates do it with a specialized population of neurons. See Chris’s thread for more details #wasplove

#ERGASeminar | Save the date! Don't miss Toni Gabaldón's talk and learn how the #Phylome approach can be used to predict #orthologs , #paralogs , detect and date gene duplication events and more!

🗓️April 29, 12:00 CEST youtube.com/live/R0gJXgQ99…

Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE) IRB Barcelona BSC-CNS

I wrote a small piece for University of Oregon Research about our barnacle project with Andrew Kern and Peter Ralph. Check it out!
'Biological rule breakers and population genetics'
research.uoregon.edu/about/announce…

The Fat/Hippo pathway drives photoperiod-induced wing length polyphenism biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_evobio

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…

New results from comparative population genomics: Genes driving global adaptation -> low pleiotropy; genes driving local adaptation -> high pleiotropy. Consistent with migration-selection theory. Gabriele Nocchi Jim Whiting biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Introducing figeno, my visualization software for (epi)genomics🧬🎨. Supports many data types (bigwig, HiC, Oxford Nanopore data with base modifications, WGS...) and is easy to use with a GUI. Can visualize multiple regions (e.g. for breakpoints). github.com/CompEpigen/fig…

#KULeuven :)

Attention scientists from all over the world!🙃The Call for Letters of Intent for the #HFSPFellowships is open, and we can't wait to know about your bold research ideas!🤩💪Have you submitted yours yet? More info: bit.ly/3ZMPQp0 #BasicLifeSciences #ResearchOpportunity

Study led by my student Viviana Di Pietro on the inheritance of alternative nest architectures in stingless bees available on the Current Biology website! Stacked or helicoidal nest architectural traditions persist across different worker generations! 🧵authors.elsevier.com/c/1inWS3QW8S6D…

Why are ~10% of humans left-handed? (🙋‍♂️) Exome-wide association study of rare variants in UK Biobank identified alleles of the beta-tubulin gene TUBB4B. Could be related to cilia function, which has been linked to other left-right asymmetries. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Super thankful for the large-scale infrastructure funding from FWO. 🙏🎉 Making accurate single-molecule long-read sequencing 🧬 available to all researchers in Flanders and beyond via Genomics Core Leuven & VIB Nucleomics Core will open up exciting new avenues for research! 🧪🧬👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬

Excited to finally have this paper out after multiple years in the making with The Bellwood Lab, Reef Function Hub, and Peter Cowman

'Analysing biological colour patterns from digital images: An introduction to the current toolbox'

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…