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How chromatin is structured is important for gene expression, DNA replication and repair. Linker histones play a key role in modulating the level of the chromatin condensation via their variable, disordered C-termini. Read this preprint to explore how! 🧬 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New preprint, led by Charley Charley Yen 🌡️🐢🧬 Monitoring sublethal effects in the wild is challenging, esp. for #endangered species with cryptic life histories. We identified 714 differentially methylated sites that carry signatures of thermal, sublethal effects in #SeaTurtles

Host-parasite interactions can lead to negative frequency-dependent selection. Stevens et al. sequence the genomes of parasites of house and wood mice, finding that proteins that interact with host immune responses are often highly diverse. @phylewgenetics nature.com/articles/s4146…

Evolution of hybrid inviability associated with chromosome fusions biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_evobio

Is sex chromosome turnover in Danaini butterflies driven by sex-biased gene content? Our article was just published in Molecular Ecology! doi.org/10.1111/mec.17… Thanks to Jamie R. Walters, Pablo Mora Ruiz , Jani Stundlova, MartinaDalikova and the others offline for great collaboration!

In this upcoming special issue we will discuss phylogenetic discordance throughout the #TreeofLife, from tips to root! Share your insights and expertise on patterns, processes, methodological approaches and limitations! Co-edits with Tomáš Flouri and Adam Leaché💻🧬🥀🦎🐌🦠🤓

Delighted that our work on chromosome evolution in Lepidoptera is published today! ✨🦋

A wonderful writeup on our study also out today in The Guardian Guardian Environment, it was great to talk to Patrick Greenfield about butterfly genomics and why sequencing their genomes is so vital!

Transposable Element Insertions Are Associated with Batesian Mimicry in the Pantropical Butterfly Hypolimnas misippus buff.ly/3PUMldB #science #evolution #biology #genome

Exciting finds Peterhouse Cambridge this week: no sooner do we start rehabilitating the fen ditch than we have a sighting of a kingfisher, and today the first grass snake for 10 years

1/7 I’m pleased to announce that my main PhD Chapter on the impact of chromosomal fusions and fissions on speciation of Erebia butterflies is now out in Science Advances: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 🥳🦋✨

DECODING GENOMES - from sequences to phylodynamics: We are proud to present our book on how to analyse genomic sequences with an evolutionary perspective. See decodinggenomes.org for a free pdf, Amazon links for print orders, and further information. Great team effort 1/2

🚨 🧵 We (Camille Cornet , Paula Escuer , Kay Lucek & I) are delighted to share our perspectives on how the 3D genome structure could be both a cause & a consequence of speciation, just out in Trends in Genetics !!Keeping reading 👇🏾 sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 1/4

Say hello to the large blue butterfly. This butterfly has had its genome sequenced by the Wellcome Sanger Institute. It went extinct in the UK in 1979 due to habitat loss, was reintroduced and now is thriving w/ careful management thanks to experts. 🦋 Insect Week #InsectWeek Royal Entomological Society

What happens when strongly divergent species form zones of secondary contact? 👉 Hannah Augustijnen last paper with me Molecular Ecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… on alpine #erebia 🦋 using whole genome resequence data for 300 individuals #biodiversitygenomics

First time I've seen Fulgora laternaria - the bug that #MariaSibellaMerian illustrated over 300 years previous to me seeing it last night The eyes spots are used for defence whilst the 'nose' is used for tapping out mating calls on trees #LightTrap #CostaRica #FlySchool #art 🧵

It was a pleasure to talk to Robin McKie The Observer about Project Psyche which is striving to sequence all 11,000 species of European butterflies and moths. A huge community effort! 🦋 Project Psyche theguardian.com/environment/ar…

An inspiring day spent at COST with lots of valuable insights including from previous COST leaders. Bring on the COST action which will support the Psyche community alongside LepEU kicking off in October!

Don’t miss Mark Blaxter from Wellcome Sanger Institute at #BG24 tomorrow. His welcome talk will discuss building biodiversity genomics across the world 🌎 Register today : biodiversitygenomicsconference.org/registration

LIVE at #BG24 : Why sequence all butterflies? Joana Meier and Charlotte Wright from Project Psyche at Darwin Tree of Life speak about how reference genomes can be the basis of questions about chromosome evolution, genetic diversity predictors, population genetics, & opsin genes.