thank you Maria!! 🥳🥳

Good morning #ESEB2025, check out my poster P03.008 and discuss about how fishy is fish DNA, demography analysis, massive inversions, ultra-long ONT sequencing for de novo assemblies, structural variation genotyping…. and everything!

Extraordinary convergence in Muellerian mimicry due to re-use of the same genes again and again!

How many convergent switches in Müllerian mimicry can be explained by parallel evolution at ivory and optix genes? Amazing work by Ben Chehida, Dasmahapatra, Meier et al.! doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Zostera seedling in situ dug out and in the hand of a diver in the Baltic Sea, credit Thorsten Reusch

There might be more seagrass species than you think - happy to share this fantastic collaboration with Xiaomei Zhang, @lei-yu.bsky.social and many others
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Pan‐genome analysis highlights the role of structural variation in the evolution and environmental adaptation of Asian honeybees The Asian honeybee, Apis cerana, is an ecologically and economically important pollinator. Mapping its genetic variation is key to understanding population-level health, histories and potential capac...

Pangenomes are not just for humans 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧, livestock 🐮🐷, and crops 🌾🌱 --- highlight yours by adding it below! #biodiversity #genomics
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taking sediment cores for blue carbon via SCUBA in the Baltic Sea

and another 5-yr (!) postdoctoral position at GEOMAR Kiel on advancing seagrass assisted evolution, see details and link to apply www.geomar.de/en/karriere/.... Omics and pop genetics knowledge required, seagrass and coastal ecology desirable. @geomarkiel.bsky.social DM me for inquiries

Seagrass Zostera marina in Baltic Sea showing blue carbon, photo credit Pekka Tuuri

The GEOMAR seagrass team is hiring. Time to make coastal restoration long-term sustainable. A fully funded 4-yr PhD position on eelgrass seascape genomics in the Baltic Sea, further details see here www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... @geomarkiel.bsky.social DM me for inquiries

Persistence of large conjugative plasmids relies on the combination of active partitioning and addiction mechanisms Extrachromosomal and mobile genetic elements, including transposable elements, plasmids, and accessory chromosomes, are found across all domains of life. The replication and segregation of elements in...

Imagine that you are a low-copy extra-chromosomal genetic elements invading a host cell. What’s your best strategy to survive? Check our new study of prokaryotic #plasmid for the answer! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... led by Johannes Effe with @iwangtoknow.bsky.social and more! (not on bsky)

New study from the Lab! Jinyang Liang assesses the possibility of inferring ancestral alleles (aka allele polarization) without outgroup sequence, using the ancestral recombination graph (ARG) alone. Here are some of our findings. (1/5)

7 PhD positions in Translational Evolutionary Research available @uni-kiel.de
Application deadline is March 27, 2025
Please spread the word!
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Learned so much and had an amazing time in the beautiful town of Český Krumlov! Huge thanks to the incredible organizers and fantastic faculty team, and everyone for making this experience so special. Hope to see each other again soon! #wpsg2025 @wpsg.bsky.social

Common misconceptions of speciation Abstract. Speciation is a complex process that can unfold in many different ways. Speciation researchers sometimes simplify core principles in their writin

My entire team wrote an opinion paper about Common misconceptions of speciation research. Each section is written by 1-2 team members. The bulk of the writing happened during two writing retreats. It was a lot of fun and I am very happy with the result. academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...