Fig. 1 Alternative routes to allopolyploid origin.

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(🧵 1/6) Somatic genome-doubling is the most parsimonious route to allopolyploidy
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I am building a new website for my group.

Any suggestions of good lab websites? It would be nice to get some good ideas 😀

Amazing to receive the @hfspo.bsky.social Research Grant to pursue the project I have been dreaming of since I started my lab..!!🧬: how meiotic drive impacts sex ratios in vertebrates👩🏻‍🔬👨‍🔬 I am so fortunate to collaborate on this project with Jiri Hejnar at IMG and @amarques.bsky.social 🎉🙏🏼

Thank You @hfspo.bsky.social

Grato João!

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Thanks Vincent!

Super excited to share some great news 😊

Our team has been awarded a @hfspo.bsky.social grant!

We’ll be working on genetic conflict over sex ratio in vertebrates, together with @takashiakeralab.bsky.social and Jiri Hejnar.

Really looking forward to this new adventure! Science is a team sport!

Beautiful work from @piotraz.bsky.social and team!

Flyer for symposium: https://ctrlepiedit.sciencesconf.org/

Very excited to announce the FIRST symposium on epigenome editing! These tools are becoming widely used in mol bio, ag & therapy. It's time to bring leaders together to discuss this rapidly growing and exciting field. And why not in Paris! Please register & share! (1/2) ctrlepiedit.sciencesconf.org

I am happy to announce the launch of a new Arabidopsis genomics resource! Check out arabidopsislyrata.org Now you can easily look at the natural genetic variation across the entire species range of A. lyrata and A. arenosa.

Nothing like a delicacy from Brazil with GMO corn and soy bean 😅

Interested in the molecular mechanisms and evolution of atypical reproductive modes ? Since 2025, we are running a (bi)-monthly online series. You can join us to watch or present!

More information : tinyurl.com/EvoRepro
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📣 Our latest story just dropped on bioRxiv:: A structurally unique effector shared between Verticillium dahliae and Fusarium oxysporum is involved in cotton defoliation and virulence on other hosts www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵

Project Psyche: reference genomes for all Lepidoptera in Europe Project Psyche is a transnational initiative to generate and study chromosome-level reference genomes of all ~11 000 species of Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) found in Europe. Here, we describe t...

I'm very excited that our paper on Project Psyche is now published! 🦋🧬

Over the last two years we've built an incredible community & already made huge progress. Read about this & how @projectpsyche.bsky.social will drive exciting and collaborative science here:

www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

The post shows a picture of Meng after successfully passing her viva on a green background with words congratulating her on acquiring the PhD title.

🎓 Congrats to Dr. Meng Zhang on defending her PhD in the lab of @amarques.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social! Welcome to the circle of doctors and all the best ahead! 👏
#PhDone #NewDoctor #PlantScience

I was glad to host Kirsten Bomblies for our annual Barbara McClintock talk at the @mpipz.bsky.social to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science!

Great lab! Great PI! Great opportunity! Apply now!

New paper! From Sam Snodgrass and @genomeofforrest.bsky.social, w/ @druncie.bsky.social, @gcbias.bsky.social, and a collaboration with Andres Moreno and @santiagogmm.bsky.social. Can we quantify the impact of humans on maize dispersal?

Plant yourself in a comfy chair and lend me your ear:

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Just new to bulesky and glad that the first post is to announce that I just finished my PhD defence with summa cum laude. Great appreciation to my supervisor @amarques.bsky.social. He is a very supportive mentor and gave me so much trust. I wouldn't have achieved what I have without his guidance.

Have you ever been asked from a journal to remove all your preprint citations from any type of article (review, mini-review, normal article) and remove all the content referring to them? I found that so nonsense 😐

#asking4friend

Aging drives a program of DNA methylation decay in plant organs Plants display a wide range of life spans and aging rates. Although dynamic changes to DNA methylation are a hallmark of aging in mammals, it is unclear whether similar molecular signatures reflect ra...

Absolutely delighted that our paper on epigenetic dynamics during plant aging is out today in Science!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Tree diversity is changing across tropical Andean and Amazonian forests in response to global change - Nature Ecology & Evolution This study examines long-term changes in species richness across tropical forests in the Andes and Amazon. Hotter, drier and more seasonal forests in the eastern and southern Amazon are losing species...

Hotter, drier and more seasonal forests in the eastern and southern Amazon are losing species, while Northern Andean forests are accumulating species, acting as a refuge for those that are climate-displaced 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So proud to share that @meng-zhang.bsky.social has successfully defended her PhD with summa cum laude 🎉🎓

A fantastic achievement that reflects years of hard work, rigor, and creativity. Congratulations, Dr. Zhang! Very well deserved, and excited to see what comes next! 👏✨

"So much is happening (loss of crossover, preferential transmission, elimination of homozygous embryos) to ensure nothing happened (clonality)"

What the hell? No recombination no problem? "These findings challenge the boundary between sex and clonality, revealing a unique evolutionary strategy linking genome architecture, recombination loss, and transmission bias." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

This is just so weird/cool.

Sci-fi writers, read this!

kinda, but this species still needs to make seeds... although they are all clonal-like