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Thrilled 😻 😁💃🏾 to share the final version of our manuscript on Luzula holocentromeres now in Nature Communications. Great collaborations during this project 🙌🏾💪🏾. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Very happy to see anna-liisa laine's & my article out in Science Magazine today! We reveal that the more a plant species invests in defense, the less potential it has for growth. All made possible by lots of public data & amazing open science contributions! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Cosmos and dahlias still going strong in the new front door bed.

My entire team wrote an opinion paper about Common misconceptions of speciation research. Each section is written by 1-2 team members. The bulk of the writing happened during two writing retreats. It was a lot of fun and I am very happy with the result. academic.oup.com/evolinnean/art…

#Arthropod #Genomics Symposium 2025 The AGS organisers would like to know your preferences for AGS 2025, please spread the word amongst your colleagues in arthropod genomics research. Please complete this short survey: forms.gle/qZkShQYpuBa55Y…

New bioRxiv led by Sam Martin with Matthew Clark Michael Giolai Sam Horsfield Ned Peel and other (sensible) non-twitter types. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We’re delighted to share our latest preprint from the Hogenhout lab (Saskia Hogenhout, John Innes Centre) on the molecular mechanisms of plant-aphid interactions. We show how the aphid Mp10 effector protein acts as a local anesthetic, suppressing plant perception of aphid attack.

1/ Genome-wide (and other) positive selection screens in genomes may be severely biased by alignment and other errors. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… we (Avery Selberg, Nathan Clark nclark.bsky.social, Maria Chikina, Anton Nekrutenko 🇺🇦, Steven Weaver, Alexander G Lucaci, Tim Sackton) propose a simple fix.

Congratulations to Dr. Jess Thomas Thorpe from Wellcome Sanger Institute on her recent publication on #Isopod evolution. 🧬 As part of the study, Jess sampled UK isopods with Darwin Tree of Life project partners MBA - Marine Biological Association. Learn more here⤵️ royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… The Royal Society

You can now also find European Reference Genome Atlas #European Reference #Genome Atlas community over on 🦋 bsky.app/profile/ergabi…

We're happy to present a pre-print from the Hogenhout lab (Saskia Hogenhout), describing how a family of proteases in aphid oral secretions suppress plant immunity

Two PhD positions in my group for next year. 1. Evolution, genetics and development of butterfly scale nanostructures. 2. Genetics of thermal adaptation in tropical butterflies nadeau-lab.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/opportunities

Exciting news! The latest hifiasm release from Haoyu Cheng and Heng Li adds beta support for Oxford Nanopore simplex R10 reads. Initial results look very promising. 🚀 Check it out: github.com/chhylp123/hifi…"

Honored and excited to receive an European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant. Big thanks to my colleagues, former mentors, and my amazing lab members. Together, we will explore cell type evolution across timescales, from population variation to regulatory sequences across phyla.

Join us on Bluesky! There are lots of interesting science discussions going on there, publications highlighted and beautiful photos shared. Very nice and inspiring atmosphere there. Check out my speciation researchers starter pack & let me know to add you: bsky.app/starter-pack-s…

My Tidyverse local synteny visualizer is up on GitHub: github.com/cxli233/TidyLo… GitHub page contains 2 example datasets, as well as step-by-step instruction & explanations on how it works. Details on required input data are discussed in the GitHub page.

Major new dorado release v0.9.0!🎅🏼 This release introduces dorado polish for refining draft assemblies, faster DNA modification calling (upto 3x 🚀), improved 6mA FPR, significant barcode demux accuracy improvements, bettter Poly(A) estimations, … github.com/nanoporetech/d…

Natural variation modifies centromere proximal meiotic crossover frequency and segregation distortion in Arabidopsis thaliana biorxiv.org/content/10.110… new work from us on centromere inheritance and organisation Nicola Gorringe Matt Naish Fernando Rabanal

MicroFinder: Conserved gene-set mapping and assembly ordering for manual curation of bird microchromosomes biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_genomic

New #preprint on finding microchromosomes in bird genome assemblies: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Check out the thread here: bsky.app/profile/tom-ma… Wellcome Sanger Institute Darwin Tree of Life