First first-author paper!!! Thank all the coauthors for making it happen.

Are plant and animal sex chromosomes really all that different? This was really fun to think through, with awesome graphics by jacelyn ! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Wow! Our paper about germline restricted chromosomes in fungus gnats was mentioned in a blurb in Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…. Glad these amazing little flies are getting some attention! @KamilSJaron Laura Ross

Very happy to see this officially out! Comparison of methodological approaches to the study of young sex chromosomes: A case study in Poecilia. Great work by Iulia Darolti, with Alison Wright. In sex special issue of Journal of Evolutionary Biology organized by Dr. Wen-Juan Ma | 马文娟 and michail.rovatsos onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/je…

So pleased to see this out! An awesome analysis and review of how developmental differences can fool phylogenetic comparative studies of gene expression. Led by Peter Price & Alison Wright with Chris Cooney Daniela Palmer Thea Rogers 👩🏼‍🔬 and others.

Sex chromosomes are the perfect molecular example of Darwin's endless forms. Yuying Lin and I wrote a fun nature N&Vs about Longhua Guo's new paper about a new way that sex chromosomes may arise - predisposition. nature.com/articles/s4158… nature.com/articles/d4158…

The discovery of a chromosome predisposed for sex suggests an unexpected order of events for sex-chromosome evolution, say Judith Mank & Yuying Lin in this N&V go.nature.com/3aeSiQe

Come work with us! UBC Zoology is looking for an Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Biology. Beautiful and supportive place, amazing colleagues - please apply! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/22493 Thanks for retweeting!

The version of record is out Alex of Lydia JM Fong's first dissertation chapter-Evolutionary History of the Poecilia picta Sex Chromosomes. Lydia found that the rate of sex chromosome divergence is often highly heterogenous, even over short time frames. academic.oup.com/gbe/article/15…

Second first-author paper!!! Thank all the co-authors for making it happen! Thank all the Mank lab members and Tom Booker for suggestions and helpful feedbacks!

Evolutionary History of the Poecilia picta Sex Chromosomes buff.ly/3nT1aSL By Lydia JM Fong Iulia Darolti Yuying Lin Ben Sandkam David Metzger Judith Mank Photo: Wouter van der Bijl

What happens to the genome when you remove sexual selection? Wouter van der Bijl and I wrote a fun news piece for Current Biology about the clever manipulation of sexual selection in mossies by Claudia Wyer, @MossieCator & Brian Hollis sciencedirect.com/science/articl… cell.com/current-biolog…

What is the cause of sex-biased gene expression? Iulia Darolti used single cell RNASeq to determine the role of regulatory versus developmental differences in sex-biased genes and their evolution rates. Now out at @Evolutionletters! academic.oup.com/evlett/advance…

Excited to see my latest work with Judith Mank out now in Evolution Letters! Sex-biased gene expression at single-cell resolution: Cause and consequence of sexual dimorphism doi.org/10.1093/evlett…

a compilation of some #sciencedoodles from a bunch of very cool talks today! tag yourself i’m the tapeworm #Evol2023

. Yuying Lin's paper on variation in germline de novo mutations in guppies made the cover of Genome Research! genome.cshlp.org/content/33/8/1… Art by jacelyn , science contributions from Iulia Darolti Wouter van der Bijl and Jake Morris.

Deep learning reveals the role of copy number variation in the genetic architecture of a highly polymorphic sexual trait. Wouter van der Bijl did it all - selection experiment, pedigrees, neural nets, GWAS - for the architecture of color and pattern in guppies biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Just out NatureEcoEvo - Alberto Corral-López 's tour de force! Functional convergence of genomic and transcriptomic genetic architecture underlying sociability. Heritability, GWAS and neuro-transcriptomics of collective behaviour nature.com/articles/s4155… w Niclas Kolm & many others.

So very happy to see this out at Genome Research . Transposon wave remodeled the epigenomic landscape in the rapid evolution of X chromosome dosage compensation. Absolutely beautiful work by David Metzger genome.cshlp.org/content/early/…

Updated and expanded version of Wouter van der Bijl 's analysis of the inheritance of male coloration in guppies is now up! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Deep learning reveals the role of copy number variation in the genetic architecture of a highly polymorphic sexual trait