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Stemming from the discourse in conservation bio & molecular genetics, our study shows adaptive & neutral variation is indeed correlated, But it’s more nuanced, as recent population declines breaks the link & makes future assessments less predictable | PNAS tinyurl.com/FgdNgd

Do wild Soay sheep 🐑 harbour embryonic lethal mutations🧬? - well, sort of. How we found out and how important we think they are 👇

Hot off the press in Science Advances, polar bear genomics, diet analysis, morphological comparisons, and habitat modelling! With the combined inferences we show how the environment shaped the evolutionary ecology of Greenlandic polar bears. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 🐻‍❄️❄️

save the date #ConservationGenetics 2024 conference in Lausanne/CH 28-30.8. - "How can research support pragmatic conservation policies?" 🧬 🦤 Mark your calendars for this event! more details about the program and for registration will be circulated in early 2024.

Pre-print is out! We use a unique approach to investigate the genetic architecture of inbreeding depression, maximising the power of our wild dataset and ensuring effect sizes are not overestimated. Check it out below👇👇 (Any comments are welcome!)

Incredibly proud of this piece, translational investment needed to revolutionise biodiversity protection - my only single author paper of my career! Was honoured to be asked to write this piece but I stand on the shoulders of giants!! Particular thanks Kathy Belov Rebecca Johnson

Breaking the chains of #WildlifeCrime! TRACE Wildlife Forensics Network develops training and capacity building for wildlife law enforcement to be able to collect, secure, analyse, and present evidence to a court of law. We made a film about it! ⬇️⬇️ youtu.be/rHjGiH6M9as

Is neutral genetic variation a good predictor of the variation that matters? pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Some good news as the scimitar-horned oryx moved from Extinct in the Wild to Endangered, according to the latest IUCN Red List update.   Conservation efforts have seen at least 140 mature individuals ranging freely in a reserve in Chad. bit.ly/41fwRVG

Just 4 weeks before submitting my PhD thesis, I am happy to share my second chapter published in Heredity 🥳🐬🧬. Read here for the first comprehensive population genomic assessment of the beautiful white-beaked dolphin ⬇️ rdcu.be/dxyMF 📸 Charlotte Kirchner

New #SharkScience: First skate egg case nursery in the Ross Sea. This important habitat for #deepwater Antarctic skates is fully protected within the Ross Sea region #MPA. Open access link here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

New paper out! 🎉🎉🎉 We take a deep dive into the evolutionary history of giraffes. 🦒 There is a lot of discussion about if this is 1 species (as it is currently on the IUCN Red List) or actually more than 1. This is crucial to guide conservation. 🧵 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S09…

🌊🧬Our new preprint on population genetics of bowmouth guitarfish in the Northwest Indian Ocean led by Marja Kipperman with Blue Resources Trust Rima Jabado Julia Spaet @Alifa_Haque biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Thanks to Save Our Seas and Shark Conservation Fund for supporting this work.

A High-Quality Blue Whale Genome, Segmental Duplications, and Historical Demography buff.ly/4cFmi3R #science #evolution #biology #genome