Aaditya Narasimhan
@aaditya320.bsky.social
🏔️ 🌱 Postdoc @Uni Lausanne
Interested in limits to evolution, developmental constraints, evolutionary quant gen and pop gen | PhD@UniversitätBasel
Interested in limits to evolution, developmental constraints, evolutionary quant gen and pop gen | PhD@UniversitätBasel
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Alignment across taxonomic levels in strategies rather than in traits along elevational gradients
Abstract. Trait variation along environmental gradients can indicate the different strategies that organisms have evolved in response to environmental hete
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A bit late, but really happy to see my first PhD paper out!
We studied trait-elevation relationships in multiple traits spanning growth, size (both above and belowground) and leaf economics to understand whether these align at within- and among-species scales.
academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
We studied trait-elevation relationships in multiple traits spanning growth, size (both above and belowground) and leaf economics to understand whether these align at within- and among-species scales.
academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
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This story is absolutely wild. Did you know that avocados change sex over the course of a day? And that it's controlled by a single ancient balanced polymorphism? This is flat our crazy
Balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies an ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.22.695989v1
December 25, 2025 at 6:33 AM
This story is absolutely wild. Did you know that avocados change sex over the course of a day? And that it's controlled by a single ancient balanced polymorphism? This is flat our crazy
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Empseb is simply the best. If you're a PhD student of evolutionary biology, do go there!
December 12, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Empseb is simply the best. If you're a PhD student of evolutionary biology, do go there!
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Excited to share the first two publications from our PERSIST (Predicting Evolutionary Rescue of a Species in Space and Time) project. Thanks to NSF-DEB for supporting this work! (1/3)
December 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Excited to share the first two publications from our PERSIST (Predicting Evolutionary Rescue of a Species in Space and Time) project. Thanks to NSF-DEB for supporting this work! (1/3)
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Before flowers evolved with attractive colors and scents, what did plants use to attract insect pollinators? Heat may be one ancient strategy.
Valencia-Montoya and colleagues report their study of cycads in Science. Journal link in first comment.
🧪🌍🌱🐝
phys.org/news/2025-12...
#pollinators
Valencia-Montoya and colleagues report their study of cycads in Science. Journal link in first comment.
🧪🌍🌱🐝
phys.org/news/2025-12...
#pollinators
Infrared radiation may be one of the most ancient plant signals to pollinating insects
Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads—one of the oldest living lineages of seed plants—heat up their reproductive organs to attract beetle pollinators and the insects possess infrared sensor...
phys.org
December 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Before flowers evolved with attractive colors and scents, what did plants use to attract insect pollinators? Heat may be one ancient strategy.
Valencia-Montoya and colleagues report their study of cycads in Science. Journal link in first comment.
🧪🌍🌱🐝
phys.org/news/2025-12...
#pollinators
Valencia-Montoya and colleagues report their study of cycads in Science. Journal link in first comment.
🧪🌍🌱🐝
phys.org/news/2025-12...
#pollinators
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Rapid adaptation follows experimental assisted gene flow in subset of annual monkeyflower populations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.02.689336v1
December 4, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Rapid adaptation follows experimental assisted gene flow in subset of annual monkeyflower populations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.02.689336v1
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RegEvol: detection of directional selection in regulatory sequences through phenotypic predictions and phenotype-to-fitness functions https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.26.690685v1
November 30, 2025 at 1:31 AM
RegEvol: detection of directional selection in regulatory sequences through phenotypic predictions and phenotype-to-fitness functions https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.26.690685v1
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A lot has happened since our first announcement of #ExE2026, an evolutionary ecology conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in #Cornwall from June 29 to July 3 2026.
Have a look at our new website to see our confirmed plenary speakers, the mid-conference excursions, and more.
👉 evoxeco.uk 👈
Have a look at our new website to see our confirmed plenary speakers, the mid-conference excursions, and more.
👉 evoxeco.uk 👈
November 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
A lot has happened since our first announcement of #ExE2026, an evolutionary ecology conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in #Cornwall from June 29 to July 3 2026.
Have a look at our new website to see our confirmed plenary speakers, the mid-conference excursions, and more.
👉 evoxeco.uk 👈
Have a look at our new website to see our confirmed plenary speakers, the mid-conference excursions, and more.
👉 evoxeco.uk 👈
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We are excited to share our recent work on the surprising robustness of Ancestral Recombination Graph (ARG) inference tools to computational phasing errors, now available on BioRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.1....
This work is co-advised by @yundeng.bsky.social and Rasmus Nielsen.
1/7
This work is co-advised by @yundeng.bsky.social and Rasmus Nielsen.
1/7
Robustness of Ancestral Recombination Graph Inference Tools to Phasing Errors
Ancestral Recombination Graphs (ARGs) are fundamental population genetic structures that encode the genealogical history of a sample of haplotypes along the genome. They have recently received substan...
biorxiv.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
We are excited to share our recent work on the surprising robustness of Ancestral Recombination Graph (ARG) inference tools to computational phasing errors, now available on BioRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.1....
This work is co-advised by @yundeng.bsky.social and Rasmus Nielsen.
1/7
This work is co-advised by @yundeng.bsky.social and Rasmus Nielsen.
1/7
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Who has the lowest Erdos-Bacon-Epstein number?
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Who has the lowest Erdos-Bacon-Epstein number? | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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November 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Who has the lowest Erdos-Bacon-Epstein number?
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Exciting!!
Population genetics simulations and analysis of experimental datasets in yeast, Drosophila and E. coli show that beneficial mutations are abundant but transient, as they become deleterious after environmental turnover (antagonistic pleiotropy)🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Adaptive tracking with antagonistic pleiotropy results in seemingly neutral molecular evolution - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Population genetics simulations and analysis of experimental datasets in yeast, Drosophila and E. coli show that beneficial mutations are abundant but transient, as they become deleterious after envir...
www.nature.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Exciting!!
Most of the internet is down because of this one issue... this includes most academic journal websites!
Plos, Nature journals and biorxiv still seem to be up... for now. Made the mistake of closing many of the tabs I had open... sigh
Plos, Nature journals and biorxiv still seem to be up... for now. Made the mistake of closing many of the tabs I had open... sigh
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November 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Most of the internet is down because of this one issue... this includes most academic journal websites!
Plos, Nature journals and biorxiv still seem to be up... for now. Made the mistake of closing many of the tabs I had open... sigh
Plos, Nature journals and biorxiv still seem to be up... for now. Made the mistake of closing many of the tabs I had open... sigh
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So exciting to see a new method to model the evolution of G (and P) matrices on phylogenies. Another step in the direction of trying to bridge micro and macroevolution
So exciting to see a new method to model the evolution of G (and P) matrices on phylogenies. Another step in the direction of trying to bridge micro and macroevolution
Multivariate trait evolution: models for the evolution of the quantitative genetic G-matrix on phylogenies
Abstract. Genetic covariance matrices (G-matrices) are a key focus for research and predictions from quantitative genetic evolutionary models of multiple t
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November 7, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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So exciting to see a new method to model the evolution of G (and P) matrices on phylogenies. Another step in the direction of trying to bridge micro and macroevolution
So exciting to see a new method to model the evolution of G (and P) matrices on phylogenies. Another step in the direction of trying to bridge micro and macroevolution
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📣CALL FOR PAPERS!
Upcoming SPECIAL ISSUE: Evolution at species range edges
Guest Edited by Shengman Liu, John Pannell and Sophie Karrenberg
More information here: academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/ca...
Upcoming SPECIAL ISSUE: Evolution at species range edges
Guest Edited by Shengman Liu, John Pannell and Sophie Karrenberg
More information here: academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/ca...
October 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
📣CALL FOR PAPERS!
Upcoming SPECIAL ISSUE: Evolution at species range edges
Guest Edited by Shengman Liu, John Pannell and Sophie Karrenberg
More information here: academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/ca...
Upcoming SPECIAL ISSUE: Evolution at species range edges
Guest Edited by Shengman Liu, John Pannell and Sophie Karrenberg
More information here: academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/ca...
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Part one of my common garden experiment is out today in Nature E&E!! We compare how urban and rural environments affect selection on HCN production, local adaptation, and eco-evo dynamics in white clover doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Effects of urbanization on local adaptation and eco-evolutionary feedbacks in white clover - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Evidence of adaptation to the urban environment remains limited. Using reciprocal transplants of white clover in urban and rural environments, this study shows divergent selection on an antiherbivore ...
doi.org
November 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Part one of my common garden experiment is out today in Nature E&E!! We compare how urban and rural environments affect selection on HCN production, local adaptation, and eco-evo dynamics in white clover doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Out “in print”!
Alignment across taxonomic levels in strategies rather than in traits along elevational gradients
doi.org/10.1093/evle...
Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Aaditya Narasimhan & Yvonne Willi
📷: Kevin Thiele
doi.org/10.1093/evle...
Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Aaditya Narasimhan & Yvonne Willi
📷: Kevin Thiele
October 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Out “in print”!
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Analysis of crop yields, farmer income and bird species abundances identifies multiple positive outcomes of a large-scale Indian government-incentivized agroecology initiative. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
India’s agroecology programme, ‘Zero Budget Natural Farming’, delivers biodiversity and economic benefits without lowering yields - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Analysis of crop yields, farmer income and bird species abundances identifies multiple positive outcomes of a large-scale Indian government-incentivized agroecology initiative.
www.nature.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Analysis of crop yields, farmer income and bird species abundances identifies multiple positive outcomes of a large-scale Indian government-incentivized agroecology initiative. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cuts to science are happening everywhere, along with more and more austerity cuts. #SaveSwissResearch #SaveSwissTeaching
September 22, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Cuts to science are happening everywhere, along with more and more austerity cuts. #SaveSwissResearch #SaveSwissTeaching
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Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants
September 12, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants
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Changes to a leaf trait due to adaptive evolution and plasticity can rescue subalpine populations from the detrimental effects of climate change
doi.org/10.1093/evle...
Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Diane R Campbell, @jellyturtle.bsky.social, and Justin Kipness
Illustration by J. Francis
doi.org/10.1093/evle...
Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Diane R Campbell, @jellyturtle.bsky.social, and Justin Kipness
Illustration by J. Francis
September 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Changes to a leaf trait due to adaptive evolution and plasticity can rescue subalpine populations from the detrimental effects of climate change
doi.org/10.1093/evle...
Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Diane R Campbell, @jellyturtle.bsky.social, and Justin Kipness
Illustration by J. Francis
doi.org/10.1093/evle...
Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Diane R Campbell, @jellyturtle.bsky.social, and Justin Kipness
Illustration by J. Francis
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A bit late, but really happy to see my first PhD paper out!
We studied trait-elevation relationships in multiple traits spanning growth, size (both above and belowground) and leaf economics to understand whether these align at within- and among-species scales.
academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
We studied trait-elevation relationships in multiple traits spanning growth, size (both above and belowground) and leaf economics to understand whether these align at within- and among-species scales.
academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
Alignment across taxonomic levels in strategies rather than in traits along elevational gradients
Abstract. Trait variation along environmental gradients can indicate the different strategies that organisms have evolved in response to environmental hete
academic.oup.com
September 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
A bit late, but really happy to see my first PhD paper out!
We studied trait-elevation relationships in multiple traits spanning growth, size (both above and belowground) and leaf economics to understand whether these align at within- and among-species scales.
academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
We studied trait-elevation relationships in multiple traits spanning growth, size (both above and belowground) and leaf economics to understand whether these align at within- and among-species scales.
academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
A bit late, but really happy to see my first PhD paper out!
We studied trait-elevation relationships in multiple traits spanning growth, size (both above and belowground) and leaf economics to understand whether these align at within- and among-species scales.
academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
We studied trait-elevation relationships in multiple traits spanning growth, size (both above and belowground) and leaf economics to understand whether these align at within- and among-species scales.
academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
Alignment across taxonomic levels in strategies rather than in traits along elevational gradients
Abstract. Trait variation along environmental gradients can indicate the different strategies that organisms have evolved in response to environmental hete
academic.oup.com
September 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
A bit late, but really happy to see my first PhD paper out!
We studied trait-elevation relationships in multiple traits spanning growth, size (both above and belowground) and leaf economics to understand whether these align at within- and among-species scales.
academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
We studied trait-elevation relationships in multiple traits spanning growth, size (both above and belowground) and leaf economics to understand whether these align at within- and among-species scales.
academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
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Pre-print now out on bioRxiv! If you saw my talk at #eseb and want more info, here it is:
Growth effects and the underlying genetic architecture of inbreeding depression in a wild raptor https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.17.670740v1
August 25, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Pre-print now out on bioRxiv! If you saw my talk at #eseb and want more info, here it is:
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With #eseb2025 coming to a close, it is time to start making plans for 2026. Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Come to our #ExE conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall. Leave your email address at tinyurl.com/EvolxEcol to join our mailing list!
August 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
With #eseb2025 coming to a close, it is time to start making plans for 2026. Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Come to our #ExE conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall. Leave your email address at tinyurl.com/EvolxEcol to join our mailing list!
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G.G. Simpson is the most mentioned paleontologist at #eseb2025. These are 3 different talks from two separate sessions. But there are more! adaptive landscapes, adaptive radiations and horotely (rates) are in! So is the fossil record! @roszenil.bsky.social @ignacioq.bsky.social and others!
August 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
G.G. Simpson is the most mentioned paleontologist at #eseb2025. These are 3 different talks from two separate sessions. But there are more! adaptive landscapes, adaptive radiations and horotely (rates) are in! So is the fossil record! @roszenil.bsky.social @ignacioq.bsky.social and others!