Hugo Darras
@hugodarras.bsky.social
Social insects, non-mendelian inheritance and genomic conflicts ๐ ๐ ๐งฌ๐ฌ
Centre for Evolutionary & Organismal Biology, Zhejiang University, China ๐จ๐ณ
Centre for Evolutionary & Organismal Biology, Zhejiang University, China ๐จ๐ณ
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Hugo Darras
@hugodarras.bsky.social
ยท Jan 6
New work from @miyapan.bsky.social and our team, bringing ant, bee, and wasp labs together. @chuanxinyu.bsky.social shows that the ANTSR locus we discovered in ants has determined sex for 150+ My across bees and stinging wasps ๐๐, despite virtually no sequence conservation ๐ฎ doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
The most satisfying genome assembler to run, ever. Huge appreciation for the team behind hifiasm ๐
Efficient near-telomere-to-telomere assembly of nanopore simplex reads - Nature
A genome assembly method called hifiasm (ONT) allows the assembly of chromosomes from telomere to telomere without the need for ultra-long reads, and outperforms conventional methods on most evaluatio...
doi.org
February 6, 2026 at 12:13 PM
The most satisfying genome assembler to run, ever. Huge appreciation for the team behind hifiasm ๐
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Amazing work
New work in @Cell Research
We conducted a large-scale structural genomics analysis of #insects, integrating phylogenomics with protein structure prediction to uncover hidden functions and evolutionary insights across the insect tree of life.
Read more from www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We conducted a large-scale structural genomics analysis of #insects, integrating phylogenomics with protein structure prediction to uncover hidden functions and evolutionary insights across the insect tree of life.
Read more from www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Structural genomics sheds light on protein functions and remote homologs across the insect tree of life - Cell Research
Cell Research - Structural genomics sheds light on protein functions and remote homologs across the insect tree of life
www.nature.com
January 28, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Amazing work
Yes!!
Meiotic drive has long been considered as a genetic curiosity. Genomic "footprints" suggest otherwise.
Check out our new review doi.org/10.1093/molb..., a cross-taxa synthesis arguing that recurrent drive is a pervasive and underappreciated force in genome evolution.
Check out our new review doi.org/10.1093/molb..., a cross-taxa synthesis arguing that recurrent drive is a pervasive and underappreciated force in genome evolution.
The Evolutionary Genomics of Meiotic Drive
Abstract. Meiotic drivers are selfish genetic elements that gain transmission advantages by distorting equal, Mendelian segregation. For decades, biologist
doi.org
January 27, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Yes!!
Thanks to our amazing collaborators: the Colgan @hibernogruppe.bsky.social ๐, Keller Valsecchi @kellervalsecchi.bsky.social and Darrouzet labs
January 6, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Thanks to our amazing collaborators: the Colgan @hibernogruppe.bsky.social ๐, Keller Valsecchi @kellervalsecchi.bsky.social and Darrouzet labs
New work from @miyapan.bsky.social and our team, bringing ant, bee, and wasp labs together. @chuanxinyu.bsky.social shows that the ANTSR locus we discovered in ants has determined sex for 150+ My across bees and stinging wasps ๐๐, despite virtually no sequence conservation ๐ฎ doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
January 6, 2026 at 3:01 AM
New work from @miyapan.bsky.social and our team, bringing ant, bee, and wasp labs together. @chuanxinyu.bsky.social shows that the ANTSR locus we discovered in ants has determined sex for 150+ My across bees and stinging wasps ๐๐, despite virtually no sequence conservation ๐ฎ doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Apply for a PhD position in the Pan lab @miyapan.bsky.social at MPI Biology ๐ฉ๐ช to study the molecular mechanisms and evolution of sex determination in haplodiploid insects ๐๐.
December 30, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Apply for a PhD position in the Pan lab @miyapan.bsky.social at MPI Biology ๐ฉ๐ช to study the molecular mechanisms and evolution of sex determination in haplodiploid insects ๐๐.
Also, one third of the research world has no Christmas holidays and does not mark the Gregorian New Year.
December 20, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Also, one third of the research world has no Christmas holidays and does not mark the Gregorian New Year.
Junior professorship in evolutionary ecology of Hymenoptera, Frankfurt, Germany ๐๐
Professur (W1 mit Tenure Track) fรผr Evolutionรคre รkologie der Hymenopteren - Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitรคt Frankfurt am Main
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitรคt Frankfurt am Main bietet Stelle als Professur (W1 mit Tenure Track) fรผr Evolutionรคre รkologie der Hymenopteren in Frankfurt - jetzt bewerben!
www.academics.de
December 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Junior professorship in evolutionary ecology of Hymenoptera, Frankfurt, Germany ๐๐
Celebrating a new building for our Center for Evolutionary and Organismal Biology at Zhejiang University ๐, with an amazing symposium bringing together leading voices in evolutionary biology from around the world.
December 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Celebrating a new building for our Center for Evolutionary and Organismal Biology at Zhejiang University ๐, with an amazing symposium bringing together leading voices in evolutionary biology from around the world.
Reposted by Hugo Darras
You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:
A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage.
Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.
A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.
A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
December 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:
Join @miyapan.bsky.socialโs new lab at the Max Planck Institute for Biology. Two PhD positions on ants to study the molecular mechanisms of complementary sex determination and epigenetic sex determination ๐๐๐. Multiple PhD projects available in the Institute.
๐ Ready to explore life science research at the highest level? Then apply for a fully-funded biology #PhD position at the Max Planck Institute for Biology @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social and Friedrich Miescher Laboratory!
Find out about the projects you could be working on: www.phd.tuebingen.mpg.de
#IMPRS
Find out about the projects you could be working on: www.phd.tuebingen.mpg.de
#IMPRS
December 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Join @miyapan.bsky.socialโs new lab at the Max Planck Institute for Biology. Two PhD positions on ants to study the molecular mechanisms of complementary sex determination and epigenetic sex determination ๐๐๐. Multiple PhD projects available in the Institute.
What do you need? Would be great to have pictures of Chinese ants!
November 18, 2025 at 9:22 AM
What do you need? Would be great to have pictures of Chinese ants!
Beautiful!
Parasitic ant tricks workers into killing their queen, then she takes over the throne. ๐ ๐ spkl.io/63321AbxVP
@keizotakasuka.bsky.social, Taku Shimada, & Yuji Tanaka
@currentbiology.bsky.social
@keizotakasuka.bsky.social, Taku Shimada, & Yuji Tanaka
@currentbiology.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Beautiful!
Reposted by Hugo Darras
New preprint from the lab: A reference brain for the clonal raider ant.
With this resource, which is based on 40 individual brains, you can register and compare all kinds of samples in a common space. It comes with lots of detailed protocols and a user-friendly GUI.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
With this resource, which is based on 40 individual brains, you can register and compare all kinds of samples in a common space. It comes with lots of detailed protocols and a user-friendly GUI.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
New preprint from the lab: A reference brain for the clonal raider ant.
With this resource, which is based on 40 individual brains, you can register and compare all kinds of samples in a common space. It comes with lots of detailed protocols and a user-friendly GUI.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
With this resource, which is based on 40 individual brains, you can register and compare all kinds of samples in a common space. It comes with lots of detailed protocols and a user-friendly GUI.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Hugo Darras
Friday Flyday! A mating pair of big-headed flies, Pipunculidae, photographed in Texas.
October 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Friday Flyday! A mating pair of big-headed flies, Pipunculidae, photographed in Texas.
@AntCommunity ๐ ๐ Chengyuan Liu found a Camponotus ant colony where all sexual larvae have red spots of various sizes, but worker larvae donโt. Any idea what this is?๐ค Video in the comment.
September 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
@AntCommunity ๐ ๐ Chengyuan Liu found a Camponotus ant colony where all sexual larvae have red spots of various sizes, but worker larvae donโt. Any idea what this is?๐ค Video in the comment.
Reposted by Hugo Darras
I definitely wasnโt early to the Listers party, but Iโm glad I made it.
Can recommend to all birder adjacent and bird curious folks ๐ชถ
m.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-w...
Can recommend to all birder adjacent and bird curious folks ๐ชถ
m.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-w...
LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching
YouTube video by owen reiser
m.youtube.com
September 21, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I definitely wasnโt early to the Listers party, but Iโm glad I made it.
Can recommend to all birder adjacent and bird curious folks ๐ชถ
m.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-w...
Can recommend to all birder adjacent and bird curious folks ๐ชถ
m.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-w...
Reposted by Hugo Darras
Thereโs a leak - and a conceptual artist - at the Max Planck ๐
September 18, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Thereโs a leak - and a conceptual artist - at the Max Planck ๐
Reposted by Hugo Darras
"Striking diversity of male-killing symbionts and their mechanisms"
by Hiroshi Arai (@haraipapilio.bsky.social), Daisuke Kageyama (@daisukekageyama.bsky.social) & co
"Why [and how] do maternally inherited endosymbionts kill male hosts?"
Find out here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
by Hiroshi Arai (@haraipapilio.bsky.social), Daisuke Kageyama (@daisukekageyama.bsky.social) & co
"Why [and how] do maternally inherited endosymbionts kill male hosts?"
Find out here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
"Striking diversity of male-killing symbionts and their mechanisms"
by Hiroshi Arai (@haraipapilio.bsky.social), Daisuke Kageyama (@daisukekageyama.bsky.social) & co
"Why [and how] do maternally inherited endosymbionts kill male hosts?"
Find out here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
by Hiroshi Arai (@haraipapilio.bsky.social), Daisuke Kageyama (@daisukekageyama.bsky.social) & co
"Why [and how] do maternally inherited endosymbionts kill male hosts?"
Find out here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Wait for Tapinoma magnum ๐
September 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Wait for Tapinoma magnum ๐
Reposted by Hugo Darras
Would a rose by any other gene smell so sweet?
Now online! A de novo-originated gene drives rose scent diversification
A de novo-originated gene drives rose scent diversification
Genomic analysis of more than 100 Rosa species uncovers a multi-step process for the de novo origination of SCREP, a taxon-restricted gene specific to the Rosa genus, highlighting its function in modulating eugenol biosynthesis and driving rose scent diversification.
dlvr.it
September 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Would a rose by any other gene smell so sweet?