On the promise of single cell technologies for understanding cell type evolution

'Single-cell transcriptomics is just one piece of the puzzle ... but it must rest on a solid foundation of developmental biology and evolutionary theory.'

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A hallmark of sex is each parent transmits half of their genome through a recombined egg or sperm. What if this was not the case? Check our new paper Nature Genetics where we break this rule via diploid clonal gametes and develop polyploid genome design

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Sperm epigenetics and sperm RNAs as drivers of male infertility: truth or myth?

Mol Cell Biochem (May 8, 2024)
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Excited to share our review paper 'Why Do Some Lineages Radiate While Others Do Not? Perspectives for Future Research on Adaptive Radiations' which is now online here: cshperspectives.cshlp.org/content/early/…

A germline PAF1 paralog complex ensures cell type-specific gene expression biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_molbio

Conserved Noncoding Elements Evolve Around the Same Genes Throughout Metazoan Evolution buff.ly/3W7845I #science #evolution #biology #genome

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Map shows the most famous Spanish tapas per region. Source: buff.ly/2UTufMh

Why are ~10% of humans left-handed? (🙋‍♂️) Exome-wide association study of rare variants in UK Biobank identified alleles of the beta-tubulin gene TUBB4B. Could be related to cilia function, which has been linked to other left-right asymmetries. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Sex chromosome turnover/fish/Nothobranchius/integrated cytogenetics+genomics. This MS has a spirit of very hard work and established new collaborations and friendships during last 5 years.
@Mao_626 Sergey A. Simanovsky Pablo Mora Ruiz biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Using whole-genome sequencing, this #BiologyLetters paper provides the first evidence of #parthenogenesis in a #crocodile . Read the full paper - Discovery of Facultative Parthenogenesis in a New World Crocodile ow.ly/7b3s50OI6m8 #EvolutionaryBiology

Did you miss the Abstracts submission deadline for #SMBE24 ? Worry not: #SMBE25 is just around the corner.
Save the Dates: #SMBE2025 20-24 Jul 2025 in Beijing
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New lab preprint by John McAuley : the genetic architecture of recombination rates is sexually-dimorphic and polygenic in wild house sparrows. What have we found…? A 🧵👇 (Image:Tilly (Matilda S) Scott)
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First publication from the Rosin lab! Review covering recent studies on male meiosis in Drosophila! 🪰 #meiosis4eva

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Have you ever wondered how C. elegans males find and evaluate potential mates? Wonder no longer! cell.com/current-biolog…

Organisms respond to environmental conditions in complex ways. This gets even more complicated when the environment is itself composed of other organisms and when individuals actively modify the environment they themselves respond to. (1/2) IU Biology National Center for Science Education @nsf The College at IU

This fascinating timelapse of an orb-weaver spider building her web is even more remarkable considering she removes it before dawn each day and constructs a new one every night to avoid daytime predators.

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Just over a week until the application deadline (March 17)!

Prevalent fast evolution of genes involved in heterochromatin functions biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_evobio