Fascinating @thembauk.bsky.social annual science lecture by @peterhox.bsky.social today: "Why sequence the genome of every species?" based on his thought provoking recent review in our journal www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Latest collaborative paper out this week - including work on my "favourite fly". Amazing bioinformatic work by Peter Mulhair, changing views on phylogeny and pushing back evolutionary origins of bicoid. Includes first ever in situs on Bombylius showing anterior bcd RNA.

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Revised evolutionary relationships within Brachycera and the early origin of bicoid in flies Mulhair et al. uncover a functional bicoid in non-cyclorrhaphan flies, pushing the gene's origin back by ∼20 million years. Reassessing the Diptera phylogeny using the largest dataset to date permits ...

Latest work out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social

We find the fly development gene bicoid is much older than previously thought (~20 million yrs older!) 🪰🧬

To pinpoint its origins we tackled the Diptera phylogeny, providing some resolution (many open questions remain).

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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012 was awarded jointly to Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka "for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent"

Honouring the life of Sir John Gurdon, who died earlier this week: awarded the Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine for seminal work carried out in Oxford Zoology (now @biology.ox.ac.uk) showing that mature cells could be reprogrammed to become pluripotent.

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"Why sequence the #genome of every species? A view from evolutionary biology" Did you catch this amazing new review in our journal by @peterhox.bsky.social? REad it for FREE here now: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @thembauk.bsky.social #dnasequencing #chromosome #mutation #evolution

Latest paper - out today - my personal views on why and how sequencing 100,000s of animal genomes will revolutionize evolutionary biology (and much more besides): tinyurl.com/JMBAgenome - open access in @journalofthemba.bsky.social. @biology.ox.ac.uk

Evolution of Duplicated Hox Gene Clusters in Land Snails and Slugs Molluscs of the order Stylommatophora underwent an ancient genome duplication. We show that stylommatophoran snails and slugs have two broken and incomplete Hox gene clusters; HoxA generally has 9 ge...

Our latest paper - interesting patterns of gene loss in duplicated Hox clusters of snails and slugs - Masters project of Finn McHale who just graduated with an MBiol 1st Class. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Experts examine DNA changes that shaped life on Earth Four-year collaborative project seeks to understand key process linked to evolution.

We are excited to announce the 'official' start of our BBSRC funded sLoLa project, where we aim to uncover the role of rediploidisation in shaping evolution after genome duplication events across the tree of life!

Find out more:
www.rediploidisation.org

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#WGDip #BBSRC

👏 Of course, a big round of applause to the fantastic work put in by the Local Organizing Committee, conference staff, and volunteers, without whom none of this would have happened!

"There are places in the world where science is under threat, and we need to make sure that we explain to non-scientists why our approach is important" @peterhox.bsky.social's parting shot at #SMBE2025

It's day 4 of #SMBE2025!

We kickstart with the plenary talk of Peter Holland (@peterhox.bsky.social), who reminds us of the immense value of sequencing one, two, and many more genomes.

The day goes on...