Thrilled to present our comparative study on the evolution of zygotic genome activation (ZGA)!! 🥚🧬

Amazing PhD work of @campobes.bsky.social together with @fedemantica.bsky.social and many collaborators! @melisupf.bsky.social @crg.eu. Thread below 1/15

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Thank you for the thoughtful reply! That perfectly explains the scope of the paper regarding domesticated species. I appreciate the clarification:)

I really enjoy reading your work which is always incredibly interesting and constructive for the community. Keep up the fantastic work!😊

There are a couple of compelling case studies (such as Populus and yak) that beautifully complement the themes discussed here (Liu et al. 2022; Liu et al. 2023).

Fantastic work putting this comprehensive review together!

Congratulations on an excellent and timely review on introgression! I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I know that strict space limitations often make it impossible to include every relevant paper, but for readers looking to dive deeper into this topic😄

Leroy, T., and M.Heuertz. 2026. “Adaptive Introgression in the Context of Climate Adaptation.” Molecular Ecology35, no. 8: e70333. doi.org/10.1111/mec.....

Heatmaps of climate variables in southwestern United States

The endangered Pacific pocket mouse

Climate change is a huge challenge for endangered species because genetic variation needed to adapt is often lacking.

Our new study in Science Advances highlights the potential for conservation breeding and reintroduction to boost resilience to climate change. @science.org

doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Complex Patterns of Hitchhiking Mutation Load Among Stickleback Populations. New paper led by Jana Nickel out in GBE @genomebiolevol.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...

The genomic impact of population connectivity and decline in Africa’s elephants - Nature Communications The two species of African elephants are facing severe declines. Here, authors assess their continent-wide genomic diversity, identifying differences in their evolutionary histories and highlighting the formative role of gene flow.

NEW❗
Throughout history, elephant genes have flown across the African continent, sometimes even between the two species. This is in contrast to what elephants are facing today, habitat loss and isolation. And we are already seeing the genetic consequences in some populations.

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MBE | Genomic erosion across avian lineages in the context of their evolutionary history

@xuejingwang.bsky.social Wang et al. analyzed the genomes of three Mauritius bird species that experienced extreme population bottlenecks, showing that evolutionary context is essential for interpreting genomic risk.

📷 Gregory Guida

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag070

#evobio #molbio #congen

🌻 Next STRiVE seminar: Loren Rieseberg (UBC) explores SVs, adaptation & speciation—from wild sunflowers to 1000+ species!

🗓️ Apr 29 | 9am PDT / 6pm CEST
✉️ Zoom link via mailing list: groupes.renater.fr/sympa/subscr...
ℹ️ Info: structuralvariantsstn.github.io/about/

Large future genetic diversity losses are predicted from conservation indicators even with habitat protection | PNAS Genetic diversity within species underpins evolutionary adaptation and has recently been included as a target for protection in the United Nations’...

We are destroying species' habitats, leading to a mass extinction event.

This habitat destruction also reduces the genetic diversity _within_ species.

Our latest work develops quantitative models to predict how much genetic diversity has been and _will be_ lost.

🧬🧪🧵

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Genome of the Abominable Snowfly uncovers the mysteries of cold tolerance in a winter active insect! New cool (literally) paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social from Marco Gallio, @matthewcapek.bsky.social, @tuthill.bsky.social, myself, and fine colleagues! ⛄ 🦟
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The SORTEE guidelines for data and code quality control in ecology and evolutionary biology are now published in the Peer Community Journal!

🔗 peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

The photo shows the cover of the nature journal, displaying a colorful moth sitting on moss. The caption says: Heat Sensitive. Tropical insects show limited ability to cope with a warming world.

Really happy that a moth made it to the cover of @nature.com! Thanks to my co-author Gunnar Brehm for this great photo 📸

Find our study on thermal limits in this week's issue:
www.nature.com/nature/volum...

@ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social
@biologie-uniwue.bsky.social
@uni-wuerzburg.de

New paper in Nature Scientific Data! 🌵

We introduce CactEcoDB, an open database integrating trait, spatial, environmental, phylogenetic, and diversification data for the #cactus family.

We hope it enables research and grows as new data are made available.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Escaping bottlenecks: The demographic path to genetic recovery in koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) Population bottlenecks can lead to evolutionary dead ends by eroding genetic diversity and intensifying inbreeding. Although theory predicts possible escape routes, direct observations of this process...

Escaping bottlenecks: The demographic path to genetic recovery in koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) | Science www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Big effort, exciting results - our paper on the constraints of thermal limits in tropical insects is now out in @nature.com! 🦋🐝🪰🪲🦗
@ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social
@biologie-uniwue.bsky.social
@uni-wuerzburg.de

Introgression and parental conflict shape repeated occurrences of postzygotic isolation in Mimulus Postzygotic reproductive isolation is often thought to accumulate as a byproduct of neutral divergence. Yet it frequently evolves rapidly, in line wit…

I am SO THRILLED to share our first fully-lab lab paper!!!!!! Led by @hybridzones.bsky.social & @hagarsoliman.bsky.social, w/ a major assist from @pfschwarz.bsky.social!!!!!!!!!!!!! Read more below, if you're curious (you should be- it's AWESOME!!!!!!!)

link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Is loss of distyly always associated with high selfing rates? And what are the genomic consequences? Read more about this in our new preprint on repeated loss of distyly in Linum, led by @zopos.bsky.social and @panazerv.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New paper out from @hoehna.bsky.social Lab, led by the brilliant @bjorntko.bsky.social! We applied the Pesto software (Kopperud & Höhna, 2025) to look at lineage-specific shifts in diversification rate on large, densely-sampled phylogenies across the Tree of Life doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Acceleration hotspots of North American birds’ decline are associated with agriculture Human activities might have accelerated declines of population abundance, but this acceleration remains underexplored. Using 1033 North American Breeding Bird Survey routes, we analyze abundance chang...

Thrilled to share our new paper out in @science.org, led by François Leroy and Petr Keil! Using the Breeding Bird Survey, we document not only a continent-wide decline in bird abundance since the 1980s — but, crucially, the acceleration of these declines over time. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Evolution, genomics and conservation of butterflies and moths - Nature Reviews Biodiversity Butterflies and moths are key indicators of functioning and healthy ecosystems around the world. This Review describes the evolutionary history of the order Lepidoptera and tracks shifts in researcher...

Now online! In this review, we cover four major topics on butterflies and moths: their evolutionary history and diversification dynamics, genomics, global diversity patterns, and conservation 🦋🌏 (1/8) @natrevbiodiv.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Up to what degree of interspecific genetic distance is it possible to form viable and fertile hybrids? A strange species of paramecium breaks the record:

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Selection-driven color variation in the aposematic strawberry poison frog, Oophaga pumilio Aguilar-Gómez et al. use exome sequencing of 347 strawberry poison frogs to uncover the genetic basis of color variation. They identify that kit, ttc39b, and bco1 underlie blue-red, yellow-red, and gr...

The last chapter of my PhD is finally out !!!! In the same species, on neighboring islands, we see radically different warning colors emerge. Evolution in action:
Selection-driven color variation in the aposematic strawberry poison frog, Oophaga pumilio: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

A reference-free pipeline for detecting shared transposable elements from pan-genomes to retrace their dynamics in a species - Genome Biology Background The role of transposable elements (TEs) in host adaptation has gained interest in recent years. Individuals of the same species undergo independent TE insertions, providing genetic variabil...

🚨📢📄 Article in press in Genome Biology doi.org/10.1186/s130...
We introduce panREPET, a reference-free pipeline to detect shared transposable element (TE) insertions across pangenomes and retrace their evolutionary dynamics #TEsky 🧵👇

Hello Bluesky!

Does Nₑ really explain mutation rate (μ) or genome size (GS) in vertebrates?

We find the apparent Nₑ–μ link in Bergeron et al. (2023) is a “back-door” path via generation time, and GS is decoupled from both Nₑ and life-history traits.

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#evobio #PNAS

Embracing the power of genomics to inform evolutionary significant units Abstract. Appropriate identification of evolutionary significant units (ESUs) is essential for effective conservation planning. Genomic data has emerged as

doi.org/10.1093/jher...

Another Interesting paper about neutral theory of molecular evolution made by Eyre-Walker! 👍
Key findings: 1) nucleotide diversity serves as a useful proxy for Ne; 2) small Ne is generally associated with a reduction in the efficacy of natural selection.
doi.org/10.1111/mec....

Estimation of effective size of large continuously distributed populations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02...

Multiple protein structure alignment at scale with FoldMason Protein structure is conserved beyond sequence, making multiple structural alignment (MSTA) essential for analyzing distantly related proteins. Computational prediction methods have vastly extended ou...

FoldMason is out now in @science.org. It generates accurate multiple structure alignments for thousands of protein structures in seconds. Great work by Cameron L. M. Gilchrist and @milot.bsky.social.
📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🌐 search.foldseek.com/foldmason
💾 github.com/steineggerla...