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October 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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How do species remain distinct? Our recent collaboration with the Rifkin Lab discovered a new hybrid incompatibility between Caenorhabditis species that results in defects in the first cell division, like irregular spindles! We show how subtle changes in cell biology can reinforce species barriers.
July 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Our recent study exploring the mechanisms behind hybrid incompatibility in Caenorhabditis Elegans nematodes is now available at @currentbiology.bsky.social!

Many thanks to my collaborators at UCSD - @odlab.bsky.social @greenbeegreen.bsky.social and the Rifkin Lab!
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Hybrid incompatibility emerges at the one-cell stage in interspecies Caenorhabditis embryos
Bloom et al. show that hybrid incompatibility between Caenorhabditis elegans group nematode species pairs arises immediately after fertilization, before zygotic gene expression. Primary defects in spe...
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July 3, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Dormancy promotes coexistence in fluctuating environments
Dormancy allows organisms to survive hostile conditions and is hypothesized to enable species to coexist in fluctuating environments. Although determining how species avoid extinction is critical to ....
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October 22, 2024 at 5:21 AM
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Hybrid incompatibility emerges at the one-cell stage in interspecies Caenorhabditis embryos
When genetic differences between populations disrupt the development of hybrid organisms, this prevents gene flow and enforces speciation. While prior studies have examined the genetic origins of hybr...
www.biorxiv.org
October 22, 2024 at 5:18 AM