Barbara Fischer (KLI Group Leader for Evolutionary Biology) was interviewed for an episode of a podcast by Springer Medicine Vienna with the title “Evolutionärer Pfusch? Die enge Passform bei der menschlichen Geburt”
🎧 Listen (in German): springermedizin-hoergang.podigee.io/316-evolutio...
💐 Congratulations to our Postdoctoral Fellow Marcelo Domingos de Santis on his new publication! 👏👏👏
"On 'Hennig’s Dilemma' and the Post-Systematics Wars"
www.kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/n...
🚨 Why can’t mammals regenerate limbs like frog tadpoles or salamanders?
In our new paper in @science.org , we show that species-specific oxygen sensing acts as a gatekeeper for initiating limb regeneration 🐭🐸
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #EvoDevo
Wrote a news article about our recent study on thermal limits🌡️
Excited to share my first preprint from my PhD w/ @justinmcrocker.bsky.social. We show that cell type-specific regulatory dominance promotes robustness and evolutionary innovation through interallelic transcriptional hubs, potentially expanding the mutational paths available to diploids. (1/18)
What if our assumption that regulatory networks are highly conserved is wrong? And every accession, individual, subspecies, etc does things very differently using the same tools?
Take from it what you want, but it's remarkable that the Greens in Baden-Württemberg, who just won the federal state elections, are considered, at the same time,
1. the most conservative Greens in the country
2. the most consequential on environmental policies
3. the most successful on the ballot
The Stochastic Pacemaker: Cumulative Behavioral Noise Drives Morphological Plasticity in Pea Aphids www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03...
New Perspective form Rory Maizels & me: "Gene regulatory networks: from correlative models to causal explanations"
Gene regulatory networks are supposed to give us mechanistic explanations of development, so why are we drowning in 'hairballs' of statistical correlations?
rdcu.be/e7zx7
Applications now open for the Graduate Research Excellence Grants! These provide evolutionary biology research funds for early and advanced Master’s and PhD students. Proposals due May 18.
www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...
🌟📣We are happy to announce another new publication on the obstetrical dilemma, co-authored by Barbara Fischer and Philipp Mitteroecker:
"Over the edge: Empirical evidence for the cliff-edge model of obstetric selection"
www.kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/n...
Congratulations to the authors! 👏👏👏
Martí-Gómez et al. developed gpmap-tools, integrating models for inference, phenotypic imputation, and error estimation from multiplex assays of variant effect data or natural sequences in the presence of genetic interactions.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag023
#evobio #molbio #compbio
📣 Our lab is seeking a postdoc to study mutation mechanisms in fungi using cutting-edge sequencing + computational biology. No active posting/grant right now, but we’re excited to host postdoc fellowship applicants in our comparative immunology team.
Interested? Reach out DM email. krasilevalab.org
Fig. 4. of Kraus 2026. Normal mammalian cardiogenesis and ambiogenic events hypothesized to be required for proper outflow tract development during placentation, along with associated developmental and phylogenetic phenotypes.
💐 Congratulations to our 2025 KLI fellow, Nina Kraus @ninakraus.bsky.social, on her new publication in the Journal of Experimental Biology on
"Environmentally dependent developmental induction as a potential driver of heart evolution"!
👏👏👏
📃 doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
A detailed characterization of the #Drosophila yolk-GAL4 transgene used for expression in the fat body shows that the Gal4 induces physiological defects in adult females.
Learn more in #GENETICS about new alternative fly lines that mitigate this effect: buff.ly/SxA6L1E
Tanja Schwander is closing the #PopGen Seminar winter term by speaking tomorrow on "Origins and consequences of unorthodox reproductive modes: Insights from stick insects". Our #PhD students look forward! Full schedule and streaming details at popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution
Continent-wide differentiation of fitness traits and patterns of climate adaptation among European populations of Drosophila melanogaster
#Drosophila
Morphomechanics and Developmental Constraints in the Evolution of Ammonites Shell Form https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27921363/ #EvoDevo
Join our KLI Colloquium:
"On Experimental Models of Developmental Plasticity and Evolutionary Novelty"
Speaker: Patricia BELDADE (Lisbon University)
🕒 15 Jan 2026, 3:00 PM CET
🗺️ at KLI, join online via ZOOM (link & info: www.kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/n...)
Text: Society for the Study of Evolution, American Society of Naturalists, Society of Systematic Biologists, Undergraduate Community at Evolution Program. Applications due January 20, 2026.
Are you an undergrad interested in ecology, evolution or related fields? Apply by January 20 for our Undergraduate Community at Evolution program! This program provides funding, mentoring, and a presentation opportunity at #Evol2026. www.evolutionsociety.org/content/educ...
Why does life explore so few of the forms it could possibly take? Using fractal descriptors, this #scienceadvances paper shows that Earth’s biosphere clusters around simple shapes, reflecting deep evolutionary constraints. @artemyte.bsky.social @manlius.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
How do genetic variances and covariances evolve over deep time? This paper unifies quantitative genetics and macroevolution with analytical models for G-matrix evolution on phylogenies, enabling new tests of multivariate trait evolution.
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Hooray! It's finally out
Istanbul people, an Astronomer needs your help!
I'm excited to present this new model to detect positive selection on regulatory sequences, which has been 3 years in the making!
Thanks to Alexandre Laverré and @phylogenetrips.bsky.social for their amazing work on this project. 😃
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Excited to share that I’m starting a research group at MPI for Biology Tübingen — and we’re recruiting PhD students!
We are offering two fully funded PhD positions on sex determination and development in Hymenoptera 🐜🐝.
Please share with prospective students who might be interested.
***Super cool-project alert***⚠️ Come work with @dirkmetzler.bsky.social and me in trying to understand how transcriptional noise evolves in a phylogenetic context 🧬 Deadline 15th Dec 2025 (Project funded by @dfg.de @gevol.bsky.social)
