Storme De Scally et al describe how genomic and biological characterisation of bacteriophages help us better understand bacteria-phage ecological and evolutionary dynamics in natural and synthetic communities. @mikejmcd.bsky.social @jeremyjbarr.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Luciano Beheregaray and colleagues have put together a special issue on genetic rescue. The articles identify opportunities and limitations and underscore its potential to improve resilience, adaptive capacity, and the long- term persistence of biodiversity. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
can we disentangle the effects of clonality and hybridity and quantify the relative degree to which these characteristics contribute to differences in mitochondrial function, organismal performance and fitness? Randy Klabacka and co. suggest some strategies royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
Rethinking mitochondrial heteroplasmy: selection, conflict and adaptation url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
Can we improve our understanding and predict species' invasion processes? Andhika Putra urges invasion biologists to integrate genomic and phenotypic data into multivariate frameworks to better understand their respective roles in driving the invasion process. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Exposure to an antidepressant can affect spatial learning in male guppies pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
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How can Australia's area-based conservation be more strategically targeted in order to contribute to achieving the biodiversity goals? James Watson and co-authors tackle this question here:
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A recent study on connectivity between populations of the Red-Tailed Tropic bird suggests that occasional long-distance movements between Great Barrier Reef and northwestern Australia occurs.
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How will evolution affect survival and yields of common fisheries species? A recent study by Jan Kozlowski, @djmmeeg.bsky.social @craig-white.bsky.social found that fish will evolve to survive warmer temperatures AND smaller sizes, reducing fisheries yields by ~50%
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New paper out in #marinepollutionbulletin from my PhD research on using thermal imaging drones to spot entanglements in fur seals! OA
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How do organisms maintain fitness in a fluctuating environment? @upama.bsky.social and colleagues found that trade-offs in reproductive allocation in mosquito fish depend on sex and age. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...
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Brooke Zanco and co-authors found flies fed low cholesterol diets have greater levels of gut permeability and epithelial cell disorganisation than those fed high cholesterol diets. Lifespan was maximised on a high cholesterol diet www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Andre Alves et al used isogenic lines of D. melanogaster to analyse the source of genetic variation for egg laying plasticity. They looked at how ovariole number, food intake, and protein-to-egg conversion efficiency impacted fecundity.
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A recent review demonstrates that rivers exert a pervasive influence on seabird ecology. The authors conclude that rivers and their plumes are critical coastal features shaping seabird habitat use, diet, health, and demographic outcomes. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Check out the press release on how locality data from social media can capture faster and broader expansion of an #invasive #butterfly species in Asia and Australia. (6/6) @monashscience.bsky.social www.monash.edu/science/news...
Weijie Wen and colleagues highlight that intricate gut phage bacteria-bacteria crosstalk may dictate disease severity, offering new insights into personalized treatments for Crohn’s disease.
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Sally Potter et al use museum specimens to study the connectiveness and genetic diversity of rock wallabies in the arid areas of Australia. Island populations have low genetic diversity compared to more recently fragmented mainland populations. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Do little penguins always forage in the same areas? Lilia Guillet et al tracked 422 little penguins over 13 years and found penguins consistently spent more time in the productive areas but in poor years they foraged farther from the colony, with lower breeding success. hal.science/hal-05495230...
How big is small when talking about patch size? And does it change if you are looking at biodiversity versus ecosystem services? David Deane and colleagues describe an objective method for discerning patch size in terms of ecological phenomena. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Vagrancy is the occurrence of an individual out-side its regular, known geographical range. Simon Gorta et al studied gadfly petrels, and found potential for vagrancy events to provide insight when assessing seabirds as indicators of environmental change onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
A very cool molecular machine, the bacteriophage JS1, has taught us several surprising things
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JS1 is a #phage that does not respect host species boundaries, but it does look stylish as it binds, enters in and kills them all.
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Woman in black rimmed glasses and a hat against a light grey to blue gradient background. Black text next to her reads: #IDWGS 11 Feb "Be curious and take maths. Curiosity drives science and maths underpins every discipline." Dr Lesley Alton, ARC Future Fellow, School of Biological Sciences.
#IDWGS Dr Lesley Alton studies how animal adapt to climate warming @monashbiol.bsky.social Her advice to future scientists: “Be curious and take maths.” Read more 👉 www.monash.edu/science/news...
The first seminar of the year will be held on 26th February 2026 1pm AEST. The speaker will be Deepa Agashe from the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India. Sign up to the above email announcements to receive the zoom link.
PopBio on the Dark Side shines a light on population biology researchers based in the Asia-Pacific, i.e., the ‘dark side’ when seminars are streaming from other time zones. We meet on the last Thursday of every month 1pm AEST. forms.gle/gPZmcBnFYcWk... or follow us @pop-bio.bsky.social
Our team at @monashbiol.bsky.social have had some exciting grant wins over Dec/Jan!
First up, Honours student Emily Blackburn was awarded the Daniel Gilmore Scholarship in support of her research on the critically endangered Leadbeater’s Possum: www.biosis.com.au/emily-blackb... #ozmammals
PhD student Tucksaorn (Orn) Bhummakasikara was awarded a Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment for her project "Genomics to inform recovery and management of the threatened Australian Pookila"! @monashbiol.bsky.social #ozmammals #ozrodents
PhD student Camille Kynoch (cosupervised in our lab) was awarded a Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment for her project "Breeding on Borrowed Time: Managing Flatback Sea Turtles Amid Climate Driven Male Scarcity". @monashbiol.bsky.social www.ecolsoc.org.au/grants-award...
What's more fun than writing this paper is the brilliant minds of @plosbiology.org @roliroberts.bsky.social coming up with ways to deal with BlueSky's censorship.
Men with surfboards, could this paper be anymore aussie? @ceb-uwa.bsky.social @monashbiol.bsky.social @biologyanu.bsky.social
We know bees are important, but do we know how to identify them? Robert Moore, Vanessa Kellerman, Scarlett Howard and co-authors have a new web-based tool that makes bee identification simple, rapid, and accessible. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...