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Volunteers wanted for 2023 season ! Contribute to the Barton groups long-term study of speciation in the Spanish Pyrenees! Great opportunity for students to experience fieldwork. All costs and travel within Europe/UK are covered. See the ad for details: bartongroup.pages.ist.ac.at/fieldwork-2023/

Volunteers wanted for 2023 season ! Contribute to the Barton groups long-term study of speciation in the Spanish Pyrenees! Great opportunity for students to experience fieldwork. All costs and travel within Europe/UK are covered. See the ad for details:

nature.com/articles/s4158… Thanks to an awesome team, our trio-based de novo mutation rates study is now out! We estimated a rate for 68 vertebrate species and explore the male and female contributions and the impact of life-history traits on the evolution of the rate! Read more:

The next IOS seminar is 14 Mar 5 pm CET! Sophie Karrenberg (Uppsala Uni) and Erik Dopman (Tufts Uni) will discuss “Coupling-The contributions of multiple isolating barriers”. Link on website: speciation-network.pages.ist.ac.at/seminar-series/ **Note: Time zones change near this date so please check before.

See you at the seminar 5pm CET today! Please check timezones carefully, as there have been some recent changes.

Starting now!!

Join us next Tuesday on the 11th of April 9 am CET for the next IOS seminar. @ClaireMerot and Kota Yoshida will tell us how chromosomal inversions couple together different barriers to gene flow. Link on website: speciation-network.pages.ist.ac.at/seminar-series/

If you are interested in how ancestral recombination graphs (ARG) can help understand evolutionary processes through genealogies, check out our previous paper, “On the origin and structure of haplotype blocks” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me… Sean Stankowski Daria Shipilina

Was great to see @a_g_garner present this at the GRC on speciation earlier this year: cis-regulatory point mutation at a R2R3-Myb transcription factor contributes to speciation by reinforcement in Phlox drummondii biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Re: the history of the DNA structure, see this blistering 1967 letter from Crick to Watson objecting to the draft of Watson’s book on their work. “...it shows such a naive and egotistical view of the subject as to be scarcely credible.” profiles.nlm.nih.gov/spotlight/sc/c…

Studying two transects for a hybrid zone in Bufo toad species allows local patterns in gene flow to be distinguished from patterns shared along the zone. We even pinpoint a genomic region with low introgression rate, based on just RADseq! Full article: rdcu.be/daP4o

Looks important!!: The landscape of nucleotide diversity in Drosophila melanogaster is shaped by mutation rate variation peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.24…

Can you guess which uni I’m visiting?