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Víctor Noguerales
@victor-noguerales.bsky.social

'Viera & Clavijo' Researcher at the University of La Laguna, Canary Islands.


Interested in understanding the evolutionary processes shaping genetic variation patterns over space, from population to community level.

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Environmental science 37%
Biology 34%

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Hybrid speciation in weevils on the Canary Islands. Or is it? What is hybrid speciation anyway? This paper was fun to work on, from start to finish. The novelty is that the parental and hybrid species are cryptic and sympatric.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Just when you thought Halloween was over - the ghosts of a brief colonisation has been found in the genetic record in weevils on the Canary Islands.

Guest blogger Adam Brachtl tells the story of this study, from the @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social Special Issue, 'Evolution on Islands'.
Ghosts of the Past: How DNA Reveals an Extinct Island Lineage
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What a cool blog post led by Adam Brachtl !! 🤩

Nice way to disseminate our results on the colonisation and extinction history of an island insect species using genomic data. Thank you! 👻

@ipna.csic.es @brentcemerson.bsky.social

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Just when you thought Halloween was over - the ghosts of a brief colonisation has been found in the genetic record in weevils on the Canary Islands.

Guest blogger Adam Brachtl tells the story of this study, from the @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social Special Issue, 'Evolution on Islands'.
Ghosts of the Past: How DNA Reveals an Extinct Island Lineage
Discover the latest news from The Linnean Society of London.
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Using as a model system the charismatic grasshopper radiation 'Chorthippus binotatus species complex', @joaquinortego.bsky.social and I aim to improve our understanding of the evolutionary and ecological processes driving genomic divergence and hybridisation in montane hotspots of biodiversity.

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Remember remember the 5th of...December?

Islands are central to our understanding of ecology & evolution, from the theory of natural selection to community ecology. This special issue promises to provide a synthesis of the latest research, and there's still time to submit! 🌍 🧪 👇
Evolution on Islands: from genomes to communities
Call for papers “…it is not too much to say that when we have mastered the difficulties presented by the peculiarities of island life we shall find it comparat
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A new Science study of ants in Fiji—involving genomic sequencing of over 4000 ant specimens from museum collections—shows that most native species have been in decline since humans first arrived in the archipelago 3000 years ago. https://scim.ag/489mI2o
Genomic signatures indicate biodiversity loss in an endemic island ant fauna
Insect populations have declined worldwide, but the extent and drivers of these declines are debated. Most studies rely on field surveys performed in the past century, leaving gaps in our understandin...
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Amazing opportunity for developing a PhD on a exciting research topic, within an emerging and young team, located at an interdisciplinary institution.

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New Perspective discusses how well-established theoretical models of evolution can be adapted to study and generate testable predictions about the evolutionary dynamics of host–microbiota associations. 👇

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Applying evolutionary theory to understand host–microbiome evolution - Nature Ecology & Evolution
This Perspective discusses how well-established theoretical models of evolution can be adapted to study and generate testable predictions about the evolutionary dynamics of host–microbiota association...
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🚨 Contrato #FPI predoctoral. Buscamos candidata/o para el proyecto ConnecTick en el #IREC-CSIC (Ciudad Real)
🔬 Proyecto interdisciplinar: #microbiología, #genómica, #ecologíamicrobiana
📍 Contrato FPI de 4 años
📅 Plazo: hasta el 30 de septiembre de 2025
📩 sandra.diaz@irec.csic.es
Más información 👇

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New #referencegenome for the ironclad #beetle Tarphius canariensis, a representative species from one of the more notable #arthropod radiations within the Canary Islands.🧬

🔗 open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-2...

#BGE @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @ebpgenome.bsky.social @horizoneu.bsky.social

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"The molecular evolutionary basis of species formation revisited"
by Molly Schumer (@mollyschumer.bsky.social) & colleagues

"The origin of species has long fascinated biologists, but determining the genes [involved] has only recently become possible in non-model organisms."

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If you're new to demographic history inference from population genomics, try this webapp I created to illustrate how dadi fits bottleneck models to site frequency spectra: ryangutenkunst-dadi-two-epoch.hf.space . It even outputs files for submitting to the GHIST competition! ghi.st

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Our understanding of species colonisation of oceanic islands has exploded, revealing unknown multiple colonisation events! Using a species complex of endemic weevils on the Canary Islands, the consequences of multiple colonisation dynamics were explored🌍 🧪 👇
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🥳 Published in @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social @linneansociety.bsky.social in collaboration with Erasmus+ funded MSc student Alya Campedel from the Département de Biologie, Ecole Normale Supérieure @ibensens.bsky.social

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Our understanding of species colonisation of oceanic islands has exploded, revealing unknown multiple colonisation events! Using a species complex of endemic weevils on the Canary Islands, the consequences of multiple colonisation dynamics were explored🌍 🧪 👇
academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...

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1/2 Unexpected and weird results are frustrating unless you have the opportunity to get to the bottom of them, and we frequently encounter this with island arthropods. Following up on them is time consuming, but often provides quirky insights into community assembly dynamics.

🧬 Happy to share this collaborative article, a great team effort with Sandra Diáz-Sánchez @sdiazsanchez.bsky.social and J. de la Fuente from IREC @uclm.es
@csic.es with @ipna.csic.es @ull.es @invest-ull.bsky.social

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Using simulations and empirical data, Thawornwattana, Flouri, @wtf-r-species.bsky.social & @zihengyang.bsky.social ‬ et al. evaluate the performance of the MSC-M model for inferring gene flow.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf121

#evobio #molbio #geneflow
Inference of Gene Flow between Species from Genomic Data When the Mode, Direction, and Lineages are Misspecified
Abstract. Thanks to genomic data, interspecific gene flow is increasingly recognized as a major evolutionary force that shapes biodiversity. Two models hav
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Very pleased to see this officially out - Genome Architecture and Speciation in Plants and Animals. With @siluwang.bsky.social, @dortizba.bsky.social and Loren Rieseberg. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Replicate geographic transects across a hybrid zone reveal parallelism and differences in the genetic architecture of reproductive isolation
doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Georgy Semenov et al.
Replicate geographic transects across a hybrid zone reveal parallelism and differences in the genetic architecture of reproductive isolation
Abstract. Determining the genetic architecture of traits involved in adaptation and speciation is one of the key components of understanding the evolutiona
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Take the opportunity to share your research at #Ento25 by submitting your abstracts before this Friday, and register soon for a huge discount on registration 🐞

📅 Abstract deadline: 17:00 (BST), 20 June 🔽

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Abstract submission - Royal Entomological Society
Abstract Submission Deadline for submissions: Friday 20th June 2025 Ento25 provides an opportunity to present your research to a large audience across the field of insect science. We are offering…
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Thanks to a 'Viera & Clavijo' research grant from @invest-ull.bsky.social, genomic data 🧬 will be now generated to test evolutionary hypotheses of shared divergence and demographic patterns across species intimately linked to these laurel forests.

Sampling for the 'MadBeetle' project is now complete! 🪲

In collaboration with @dlugo95.bsky.social, we have succesfully collected arthropods accross the superb laurel forests from Madeira! This project is proudly funded by @linneansociety.bsky.social and the Percy Sladen Memorial Fund.