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Andrew Pomiankowski
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JBS Haldane Professor of Genetics, University College of London

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Andrew Pomiankowski @andrewpom.bsky.social · Jun 19
Why did I take Zoology at Oxford, because of read Niko Tindbergen

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Andrew Pomiankowski @andrewpom.bsky.social · Jun 19
We never did get a date in the diary. Try again

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Andrew Pomiankowski @andrewpom.bsky.social · May 1
Oh shit, again.

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Andrew Pomiankowski @andrewpom.bsky.social · Apr 21
Who cares about ageing. I do!

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Andrew Pomiankowski @andrewpom.bsky.social · Apr 21
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Andrew Pomiankowski @andrewpom.bsky.social · Apr 21
A gamble worth taking

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Andrew Pomiankowski @andrewpom.bsky.social · Apr 21
Which one

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · Feb 13
Evolution of Wolbachia male-killing mechanism within a host species

"In vitro and in vivo data demonstrated that wBol1Y (Wolbachia) feminized splicing and expression of lepidopteran sex determination pathway genes."

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Evolution of Wolbachia male-killing mechanism within a host species
Male-killing bacterial symbionts, prevalent in arthropods, skew population sex ratios by selectively killing male progeny, profoundly impacting ecology and evolution of their hosts. Male-killing is a ...
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Reposted by Andrew Pomiankowski, Pavel Kratina

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Dr Joanne Littlefair @jlittlefair.bsky.social · Feb 12
A new opportunity to work with our expanding #eDNA and #biodiversity lab as a postdoc looking at human impacts across space and time with terrestrial airborne eDNA. UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship funded opportunity based at the @ucl-pnl.bsky.social: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Anna Dewar @annadewar.bsky.social · Jan 8
Our review is out in Nature Reviews Genetics! rdcu.be/d5AY2

We show how phylogeny-based methods can resolve the problem of non-independence in genomic datasets.

These methods must be considered an essential part of the comparative genomics toolkit.

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A phylogenetic approach to comparative genomics
Nature Reviews Genetics - Controlling for phylogeny is essential in comparative genomics studies, because species, genomes and genes are not independent data points within statistical tests. The...
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