Sexual dimorphism in pollen foraging and sensory traits in Heliconius butterflies Male and female butterflies often face different ecological and sensory demands, yet how this shapes their foraging behaviour remains unclear. In Heliconiu

Excited to share our new paper on pollen foraging in Heliconius himera @behavecol.bsky.social! 🦋🌼
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We explored how female and male H. himera differ in pollen foraging & sensory traits. 1/6🧵👇

¡Contento de compartir nuestro nuevo artículo sobre el forrajeo de polen en Heliconius himera en @behavecol.bsky.social! 🦋🌼 Exploramos cómo hembras y muchos de H. himera difieren en el forrajeo de polen y rasgos sensoriales. 1/6🧵👇academic.oup.com/beheco/article/37/3/arag...

You want to work on Transcriptional Regulation in Beetles 🐞? Join our GEvol Community and work with many great people ➡️ Two open PhD positions in @bfeldmeyer.bsky.social lab in Frankfurt: g-evol.uni-muenster.de/open-positio...

Two exciting PhD positions for biologists or bioinformaticians in Barbara Feldmeyer's lab at Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Institute in Frankfurt, one on transcriptional regulation of odorant perception in hymenoptera and...

g-evol.uni-muenster.de/open-positio...

...the other is on transcriptional regulation of sociality in beetles. The latter is in direct collaboration with Sandra Steiger, Peter Biedermann, Mark Harrison and us. Both projects are part of the DFG priority program Gevol @gevol.bsky.social

g-evol.uni-muenster.de/newprojects/...

Beyond Mendel: a call to revisit the genotype–phenotype map through new experimental paradigms Abstract. The long-standing notion that genotypes map to phenotypes through simple one gene–one trait relationships continues to shape both research in the

Oft Herr Mendel dreams

that genes form living matter.

They do the latter.

doi.org/10.1093/gene...

Determinants of mutation load in birds Abstract. Many mutations have detrimental effects. The mutation load in a population depends on the efficacy of purifying selection in removing deleterious

@jochenwolflab.bsky.social
Where do potentially harmful mutations accumulate? We have an answer in birds. Congratulations Fidel for wonderful paper!

doi.org/10.1093/gene...

Determinants of mutation load in birds Abstract. Many mutations have detrimental effects. The mutation load in a population depends on the efficacy of purifying selection in removing deleterious

@jochenwolflab.bsky.social
Where do potentially harmful mutations accumulate? We have an answer in birds. Congratulations Fidel for wonderful paper!

doi.org/10.1093/gene...

GEvol Job Alert: PhD position in Robert Paxtons lab in Halle This research project focuses on the extent to which the origin of eusociality in the socially variable halictid bees is ascribable
to changes in gene regulatory mechanisms. Find this and more open positions @ g-evol.uni-muenster.de

Newton International Fellowships | Royal Society This fellowship is for non-UK scientists who are at an early stage of their research career and wish to conduct research in the UK.

Want to join us at Oxford? This is a great Royal Society fellowship scheme to bring early career researchers from abroad. royalsociety.org/grants/newto...

***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)

And of course I am also very excited and happy about the joint project with @bfeldmeyer.bsky.social , @steigerlab.bsky.social , Peter and Mark on the evolution in brood care behavior in beetles and about the collaborations and scientific exchange with all the great colleagues in @gevol.bsky.social !

I am also super happy and excited about our joint project with @luisapallares.bsky.social as part of DFP SPP GEvol @gevol.bsky.social !

Performance of Two Custom Probe Kits for In‐Solution Enrichment of Ancient Avian DNA Ancient DNA (aDNA) analysis remains challenging due to low endogenous DNA content of degraded samples. Hybridisation-based in-solution enrichment has emerged as an effective tool for targeting genomi...

@jochenwolflab.bsky.social Check out the latest paper spearheaded by @chyiyin.bsky.social. She explored different methods for target enrichment of DNA extracted from thousands of years old crow bones. Long live ancient DNA!

doi.org/10.1111/1755...

🎉We are happy to announce that our wonderful GEvol SPP will be funded by @dfg.de for another 3 years. Included are 17 great projects all over Germany with amazing people. You want to be part of this fantastic community? Soon you can find new PhD/Post-Doc positions here & on our website. Stay tuned🎉

Genomic architecture of egg mimicry and its consequences for speciation in parasitic cuckoos Host-parasite arms races facilitate rapid evolution and can fuel speciation. Cuculus cuckoos are deceptive egg mimics that exhibit a broad diversity of counterfeit egg phenotypes, representing host-ad...

Matrilines attack,

for the hosts there is no hope.

Egg kaleidoscope.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This month is my turn to bust science myths in our institute's mini-videos series. This month's topic: fruit flies and evolution! 🪰🧬

@mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social

No Consistent Effect of Migration on Speciation Rates in Two Avian Superfamilies: A Check on the Robustness of Trait-Dependent Diversification Methods Abstract. Seasonal migration is performed by taxonomically diverse groups across the planet’s oceans and continents. Migration has been hypothesized to pro

Fantastic comparative study by Gina Calabrese in coop with Safran & Rabosky lab explores whether seasonal migration can promote speciation in birds. A large-scale comparative analysis packed with methodological insights!

academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

Heads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change.

Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned

Robust and accurate Bayesian inference of genome-wide genealogies for hundreds of genomes - Nature Genetics SINGER is a method for creating ancestral recombination graphs to understand the genealogical history of genomes. The method has increased speed, and thus scalability, without sacrificing accuracy.

SINGER, our ARG inference method, is finally published and freely available online:

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

It was a long journey – 16 months from initial submission to acceptance. Is it just me, or has peer review gotten more arduous lately? 4+ rounds of review isn't so unusual these days...

Many thanks to all GEvol members for a truly wonderful annual meeting. It was really great to catch up with you all again.

Determinants of mutation load in birds Mutations contribute substantially to mortality and disease. The mutation load in a population depends on the efficacy of purifying selection in removing deleterious genetic variation. Here, we estima...

Mutation load sits on the large chromosomes in birds. Fidel's comparative work on 19 bird species shows an interesting interaction between recombination, selection and gene conversion affecting the genomic distribution of genetic load.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Context‐dependent relationships between genomic traits and plant performance in temperate grasslands Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

Chongyi's paper from the biodiversity exploratories (@bexplo.bsky.social‬) is finally out ! How do genomic traits interact with community ecology?

Antropogenic

havoc. Communities shake.

Genomes grow and break.

doi.org/10.1111/1365...

DNA Methylation Reflects Cis‐Genetic Differentiation Across the European Crow Hybrid Zone Chromatin modifications provide a substrate for epigenetic variation with evolutionary potential. To quantify the contribution of this layer of variation during speciation in crows, we leveraged geno...

Two million bases

defy conformity. Meth

rebels follow lead.

Merondun (2025) Mol Ecol

doi.org/10.1111/mec....

Toward the integration of speciation research Abstract. Speciation research—the scientific field focused on understanding the origin and diversity of species—has a long and complex history. While relev

Sauna, vodka, tea.

Inhale the North, speciate.

Even ants must pee.

Stankowski (2024) Evol J Linnean Soc

doi.org/10.1093/evol...

A region of suppressed recombination misleads neoavian phylogenomics | PNAS Genomes are typically mosaics of regions with different evolutionary histories. When speciation events are closely spaced in time, recombination ma...

Years of fury on

ancient chromosomal dust.

Peace regained. Helas!

Mirarab et al. (2024) PNAS
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Sexual selection promotes reproductive isolation in barn swallows Despite the well-known effects of sexual selection on phenotypes, links between this evolutionary process and reproductive isolation, genomic divergence, and speciation have been difficult to establis...

Swallows, match your love!

tails and feathers, red or buff.

And genes will couple.

Shield et al. (2024) Science
doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Two #LMU projects receive ERC #ProofOfConcept Grants!
🌿 Silke Robatzek is pursuing a novel approach in plant protection strategies.
🧠 @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social optimizes deep brain stimulation with functional markers.
#LMU #ERC #ResearchInThePractice Read more here: www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...