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Currently reading "The Flight of the Iguana" by David Quammen. A nice collection of essays that were written in the 1980s. Some are obviously out of date (such as one arguing that orang-outans might be more closely related to us than chimps). But still an entertaining read.

New polar bear paper. Largely confirmation of what we thought. Evolution & species divergence is less like a tree & more like a vine: lots of intertwining over time until new species can't produce viable offspring. Polar bears & brown bears haven't been separated long enough yet.

New paper - Historical #biogeography of North American #killifishes (#Cyprinodontiformes) recapitulates geographical history in the Gulf of México #watershed. #Killifish #Zoogeography 🔒 academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/art…

I wrote about the evidence for selective sweeps from genomic data over the past 50,000 years. A few highlights:

The origin and maintenance of supergenes contributing to ecological adaptation in Atlantic herring nature.com/articles/s4146… Nature Communications

Face off with a Founding Father in Philadelphia…

Vertical and diel niches modulate thermal selection by rainforest #frogs #ProcB royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… #OpenAccess #Ecology #Physiology @TheNatureDave

Y chromosome introgression between deeply divergent primate species nature.com/articles/s4146… Nature Communications

Parallel and convergent evolution in genes underlying seasonal migration academic.oup.com/evlett/advance… Evolution Letters

Study supports a close association between perch structure & patterns of phenotypic convergence across Bradypodion forming 3 ecomorphs (forest, shrub, & "little brown chameleons" [LBCs]) with convergence based on habitat similarities rather than ancestry. academic.oup.com/cz/advance-art…

Negative selection on baboon admixture is strongest on chromosome X biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_genetic

Just in time before Christmas 🎅🏻🧬 Very happy to share this work, where we identified several horizontal gene transfers between fishes. This is a first for vertebrates (except for the anti-freeze protein example) ! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Parallel and convergent evolution in genes underlying seasonal migration doi.org/10.1093/evlett… Now in Evolution Letters by Luz E Zamudio-Beltrán et al. (Bird Genoscape Project (BGP))

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Mind the gaps: The incompleteness of complete avian genome assemblies buff.ly/4haYF4X #ornithology

The first many-analysts study in ecology is finally published! 🥳🙌 300+ coauthors and 5+ years, this was a massive effort by Elliot Gould Dr Hannah Fraser Tim Parker and co. Open access 👉 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

I finally published our new paper embracing the heterogeneity of whole genomes for understanding evolutionary processes! And it's on #snakes! Always a plus! Huge thank you to my collaborators! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Phylogenomic and comparative genomic analyses support a single evolutionary origin of flatfish asymmetry nature.com/articles/s4158… Nature Genetics

Parallel Selection in Domesticated Atlantic Salmon from Divergent Founders Including on Whole-Genome Duplication-derived Homeologous Regions academic.oup.com/gbe/article/17… GBE (Genome Biology and Evolution)

A Phylogenetic Approach to Delimitate Species in a Probabilistic Way academic.oup.com/sysbio/advance… Society of Systematic Biologists

Happy 2nd annual International Chameleon Day! May 9th is International Chameleon Day, which was launched in 2024 to highlight the remarkable diversity of chameleon species and shed light on the challenges they face in the wild! #internationalchameleonday #chameleondaymay9