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Super proud of my 2nd PhD paper exploring shifts in evo. integration among reef fish fins with expansions in locomotor modes, out now in Evolution. Within modes there is much diversity in fin shape and weak connections between form and function. doi.org/10.1093/evolut…

Evolutionary integration is generally weakened with the evolution of novel swimming modes. Suggesting that functional expansion may be facilitated by decoupling of the fins.

This project was only possible with the guidance of Dr. Mike Burns, Peter Wainwright, Dylan Wainwright, and an amazing team of undergraduate assistants Bernice Yin, Sam Hodges-Lisk, and Sky Jung is Going Fishin’. Typeset version will be available in a few days! Feel free to reach out for a copy.

December issue's #EditorsChoice article: "Untangling the colonization history of the Australo-Pacific reed warblers, one of the world’s great island radiations." buff.ly/3Dmcpum AM Kearns, MG Campana, B Slikas, L Berry, T Saitoh, GR Graves, A Cibois, RC Fleischer

New and free to read in Evolution: "Extended phenotype affects somatic phenotype in spiders: web builders have lower estimated biting forces than free hunters" buff.ly/3OYzupD Corinthia R Black, Jeffrey W Shultz, Hannah M Wood

This month's #EditorsChoice article: "Sperm competition intensity shapes divergence in both sperm morphology and reproductive genes across murine rodents" by Kopania et al. buff.ly/3PoYFSE

Cool Science: Fascinating and important new paper "Allometric scaling of somatic mutation and epimutation rates ..." by Frank Johannes in Evolution Journal . He shows that annual somatic (epi)mutation rates are inversely related to lifespan #Genetics #EvolBiol academic.oup.com/evolut/article…

Our (Jeff Sekelsky, Corbin Jones, & me) #Meiosis, Recombination & Evolution of Sex class UNC_Biology loved talking w/ Christoph Haag CNRS 🌍 Université de Montpellier about his lab’s Evolution Journal paper on recombination and asexuality in #Daphnia plus some unpublished work: doi.org/10.1093/evolut…

Excited to announce I have a review of Xun Gu’s new book “Statistical Analysis of Molecular and Genomic Evolution” out now in Evolution Journal ! Advance article linked below in thread 👇

I start by discussing the idea of unifying evolutionary genomics, a stated goal of the book, and evaluate Gu’s contributions to this goal, which are quite impressive! doi.org/10.1093/evolut…

In between I discuss the essential concepts and results of each chapter, which occupies the bulk of the review, and critically note some absences. If any of the topics present are of interest to you, give the book itself a read! academic.oup.com/book/58908?log…

Acknowledgements: jim mallet for helpful edits/comments, as well as Katie Helke and Nawab Shah Oxford Academic for sending the book. While I single out my PI from my last postdoc, many of the citations can serve as Easter Eggs to others who I’ve learned from. Thank you all!

Congrats to Drs. Mathur, Tomeček, Tarango-Arámbula & Perez; our genetic load paper recently won the Outstanding Scientific Publication Award from the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society (its 2nd best paper award) :) SSE Samarth Mathur academic.oup.com/evolut/article…

Don't miss the March Editor's Choice article: "Suture zones, speciation, and evolution," a Review by Daniel R Wait and Joshua V Peñalba. buff.ly/7ENlTZB

1/9 #science #biology Very pleased to announced that our accepted paper (Thomas Near & Alex Dornburg) on the early evolution of acanthopterygian fishes is out in Evolution Journal. doi.org/10.1093/evolut…

The Rhinocryptidae radiation is possibly one of the most enigmatic; our new study shows the importance of song as a signal in this group of mountain-loving birds. Nice collab with Paola Laiolo IMIB - Instituto Mixto Investigación Biodiversidad out in "Evolution" SSE . Picture: N Athanas academic.oup.com/evolut/advance…

Evolution Digests are short articles summarizing original research in Evolution and placing it in a larger context, making the work more accessible to those outside the study's specific subfield. Learn how to submit a Digest here: sites.duke.edu/evodigests/

Happy Friday - our paper on the role of range size, population fluctuation and introgression in determining genetic diversity in Gehyra geckos is online in early view Evolution Journal, led by my fabulous student Ching Ching Lau - her first first-author paper! academic.oup.com/evolut/advance…