Journal of Molecular Evolution
@jmolev.bsky.social
The official Bluesky account of the Journal of Molecular Evolution, founded in 1971 by Emile Zuckerkandl. Current EIC: David Liberles.
https://link.springer.com/journal/239
Posts by editor @caraweisman.bsky.social (views her own)
https://link.springer.com/journal/239
Posts by editor @caraweisman.bsky.social (views her own)
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🧬 PhD Position – Genomic Architecture & Evolution
Join our team at UAB (Barcelona) in an international project
🔬 4-year FPI contract
🎓 Biology/Genetics background + Master’s + English
📅 Apply by Sept 30, 2025
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September 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
🚨 We are hiring!
🧬 PhD Position – Genomic Architecture & Evolution
Join our team at UAB (Barcelona) in an international project
🔬 4-year FPI contract
🎓 Biology/Genetics background + Master’s + English
📅 Apply by Sept 30, 2025
📧 aurora.ruizherrera@uab.cat
🔗 grupsderecerca.uab.cat/evolgenom
🧬 PhD Position – Genomic Architecture & Evolution
Join our team at UAB (Barcelona) in an international project
🔬 4-year FPI contract
🎓 Biology/Genetics background + Master’s + English
📅 Apply by Sept 30, 2025
📧 aurora.ruizherrera@uab.cat
🔗 grupsderecerca.uab.cat/evolgenom
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Thanks @jmolev.bsky.social !! For more on our science, please follow us here at @evodevogenomeub.bsky.social
@criscanestro.bsky.social gives a lovely, thoughtful talk on this theme, on a tunicate species with very a scrambled genome; then reflects on what the patterns of scrambling can tell us about the underlying regulatory architecture. #eseb2025
August 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Thanks @jmolev.bsky.social !! For more on our science, please follow us here at @evodevogenomeub.bsky.social
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Erich and Marie travelled to Barcelona for #ESEB2025. Erich gave two talks: one exploring de novo and random proteins, and another discussing gene family losses in slave-maker ants. Marie presented her work on neORF emergence in Drosophila at Symposium 29, organised by @gevol.bsky.social. 🧬🪰🐜
August 25, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Erich and Marie travelled to Barcelona for #ESEB2025. Erich gave two talks: one exploring de novo and random proteins, and another discussing gene family losses in slave-maker ants. Marie presented her work on neORF emergence in Drosophila at Symposium 29, organised by @gevol.bsky.social. 🧬🪰🐜
Our EIC David Liberles kicks off the meeting with a reminder of our journal's storied history - some of the many seminal papers published here. #JME2025
My personal favorite: Felsenstein 1981: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
My personal favorite: Felsenstein 1981: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
August 25, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Our EIC David Liberles kicks off the meeting with a reminder of our journal's storied history - some of the many seminal papers published here. #JME2025
My personal favorite: Felsenstein 1981: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
My personal favorite: Felsenstein 1981: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Final words of the last #ESEB2025 plenary by @jmappes.bsky.social:
"Science moves forward when we keep both our curiosity and our humility"
"Science moves forward when we keep both our curiosity and our humility"
August 22, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Final words of the last #ESEB2025 plenary by @jmappes.bsky.social:
"Science moves forward when we keep both our curiosity and our humility"
"Science moves forward when we keep both our curiosity and our humility"
Great to see @vargaschavezc.bsky.social give a talk on this in person. Stunning findings on the origin of non-marine annelids, whose genomes are utterly scrambled: a statistically random distribution of ancestral linkage groups around the genome. #eseb2025
Glad to see this paper finally out! An episodic burst of massive genomic rearrangements and the origin of non-marine annelids
@natecoevo.nature.com @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @csic.es @erc.europa.eu www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@natecoevo.nature.com @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @csic.es @erc.europa.eu www.nature.com/articles/s41...
An episodic burst of massive genomic rearrangements and the origin of non-marine annelids - Nature Ecology & Evolution
An analysis of annelid genomes reveals massive reshuffling of chromosomes in the ancestral lineage leading to clitellates, a clade composed of non-marine annelids, with potential implications for the ...
www.nature.com
August 22, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Great to see @vargaschavezc.bsky.social give a talk on this in person. Stunning findings on the origin of non-marine annelids, whose genomes are utterly scrambled: a statistically random distribution of ancestral linkage groups around the genome. #eseb2025
Common theme this year is structural genome rearrangements coinciding with ecological or lifestyle changes.
@NGuiglielmoni
contributes high rates of rearrangements in cryptobiotic nematodes, in extreme environments, compared to close non-crytobiotic outgroups. #eseb2025
@NGuiglielmoni
contributes high rates of rearrangements in cryptobiotic nematodes, in extreme environments, compared to close non-crytobiotic outgroups. #eseb2025
August 22, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Common theme this year is structural genome rearrangements coinciding with ecological or lifestyle changes.
@NGuiglielmoni
contributes high rates of rearrangements in cryptobiotic nematodes, in extreme environments, compared to close non-crytobiotic outgroups. #eseb2025
@NGuiglielmoni
contributes high rates of rearrangements in cryptobiotic nematodes, in extreme environments, compared to close non-crytobiotic outgroups. #eseb2025
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Great symposium on Craniofacial Evolution in Vertebrates at #ESEB2025 kicked off with fantastic talk by @grumpydrfabre.bsky.social on the metamorphic blueprint,how life cycle type shapes salamander skulls. Is there an advantage of complex life cycle to create novel morphologies?
@r3rt0.bsky.social
@r3rt0.bsky.social
August 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Great symposium on Craniofacial Evolution in Vertebrates at #ESEB2025 kicked off with fantastic talk by @grumpydrfabre.bsky.social on the metamorphic blueprint,how life cycle type shapes salamander skulls. Is there an advantage of complex life cycle to create novel morphologies?
@r3rt0.bsky.social
@r3rt0.bsky.social
Mind-boggling talk from Lee Henry on facultative endosymbiosis. Pitches as essentially a form of HGT - a source of adaptives genes that populations can pass around to deal as needed w/ common environmental challenges. Just another organism instead of only DNA. #ESEB2025
August 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Mind-boggling talk from Lee Henry on facultative endosymbiosis. Pitches as essentially a form of HGT - a source of adaptives genes that populations can pass around to deal as needed w/ common environmental challenges. Just another organism instead of only DNA. #ESEB2025
#eseb2025 Hanne Griem-Krey finds accessory chromosome (AC) in a fungal insect pathogen that increases infectivity and can be horizontally transferred to other strains - solo, without the rest of the genome.
August 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
#eseb2025 Hanne Griem-Krey finds accessory chromosome (AC) in a fungal insect pathogen that increases infectivity and can be horizontally transferred to other strains - solo, without the rest of the genome.
#ESEB2025 Several talks on mysterious germline-restricted chromosomes, which are eliminated from somatic tissue during development. In fungus gnats, @chodson.bsky.social finds that they look like they're derived from a hybridization event.
August 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
#ESEB2025 Several talks on mysterious germline-restricted chromosomes, which are eliminated from somatic tissue during development. In fungus gnats, @chodson.bsky.social finds that they look like they're derived from a hybridization event.
#ESEB2025 Exquisite talk on the mechanisms used by fungi that parasitize ants into 'zombies,' controlling their behavior to make them move to a location optimal for spore dispersal, from Charissa de Bekker.
August 21, 2025 at 8:13 AM
#ESEB2025 Exquisite talk on the mechanisms used by fungi that parasitize ants into 'zombies,' controlling their behavior to make them move to a location optimal for spore dispersal, from Charissa de Bekker.
Third day's plenary by @lovedalen.bsky.social on “deep time” ancient DNA: >100k years old! First, an explanation of why aDNA is hard: very short fragments (even so much that amplification is hard), often with a majority of contaminated sequence. #eseb2025
August 20, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Third day's plenary by @lovedalen.bsky.social on “deep time” ancient DNA: >100k years old! First, an explanation of why aDNA is hard: very short fragments (even so much that amplification is hard), often with a majority of contaminated sequence. #eseb2025
Talk from @aleksandra-marconi.bsky.social on sensory evolution in cichlids. Finds a LINE2 insertion in the intron of a critical brain patterning gene that in zebrafish reporter drives expression in key sensory regions. #ESEB2025
August 20, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Talk from @aleksandra-marconi.bsky.social on sensory evolution in cichlids. Finds a LINE2 insertion in the intron of a critical brain patterning gene that in zebrafish reporter drives expression in key sensory regions. #ESEB2025
Nice talk from @timothyfuqua.bsky.social on the capacity of bacterial genomes to evolve promoters 'de novo'. One impt number: what % of genomic sequence is, or is mutationally close to, being a promoter? Another, more overlooked: how does this compare to the # in random sequence? #ESEB2025
August 20, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Nice talk from @timothyfuqua.bsky.social on the capacity of bacterial genomes to evolve promoters 'de novo'. One impt number: what % of genomic sequence is, or is mutationally close to, being a promoter? Another, more overlooked: how does this compare to the # in random sequence? #ESEB2025
Talk from @jfennbio.bsky.social at #ESEB2025 on this work. I didn't catch the actual predictive accuracy in the talk - from the paper, I glean that it's >90%!
Take a look at our work on miRNAs and their involvement with placental phenotypes. It's great to see this work finally see the light of day - huge thanks to everyone involved with the manuscript.
How did mammal placental diversity evolve? miRNAs play a significant role - indeed their repertoire is predictive of phenotype. Congrats to all: esp 1st author @jfennbio.bsky.social & all in @niamhforde.bsky.social group. Thanks to @ukri.org and @leverhulme.ac.uk. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 20, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Talk from @jfennbio.bsky.social at #ESEB2025 on this work. I didn't catch the actual predictive accuracy in the talk - from the paper, I glean that it's >90%!
@rmwaterhouse.bsky.social kicked off the afternoon session of 'the genomic basis of evolutionary innovations' with a talk rich in data and with metascientific reach (rare!). #ESEB2025
August 20, 2025 at 5:17 AM
@rmwaterhouse.bsky.social kicked off the afternoon session of 'the genomic basis of evolutionary innovations' with a talk rich in data and with metascientific reach (rare!). #ESEB2025
#ESEB2025 Laia Marin-Gual on 3D genome organization in diverse vertebrate genome architectures. Nice comparative design: picked animals with different karyotype features: macro vs micro-chromosomes, meta- vs acrocentric. (Can't tweet the unpublished results! Suspense!)
August 20, 2025 at 5:17 AM
#ESEB2025 Laia Marin-Gual on 3D genome organization in diverse vertebrate genome architectures. Nice comparative design: picked animals with different karyotype features: macro vs micro-chromosomes, meta- vs acrocentric. (Can't tweet the unpublished results! Suspense!)
@clairemerot.bsky.social Claire Mérot on a zoo of chromosomal inversions, which suppress recombination to enable "discrete and complex" (well-put!) phenotypes. My favorite case study: seaweed flies, where the two alleles show very similar clines in Europe and the US. #ESEB2025
August 20, 2025 at 4:38 AM
@clairemerot.bsky.social Claire Mérot on a zoo of chromosomal inversions, which suppress recombination to enable "discrete and complex" (well-put!) phenotypes. My favorite case study: seaweed flies, where the two alleles show very similar clines in Europe and the US. #ESEB2025
Marta Ferré on waterbucks (a species of antelope): multiple instances of subspecies with different karyotypes due to polymorphic Robertsonian translocation. #ESEB2025
August 20, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Marta Ferré on waterbucks (a species of antelope): multiple instances of subspecies with different karyotypes due to polymorphic Robertsonian translocation. #ESEB2025
Neat talk from Heli Monttinen pointing out that template switching causes inverted repeats, which can be functional as miRNAs! That's handy. #eseb2025
August 20, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Neat talk from Heli Monttinen pointing out that template switching causes inverted repeats, which can be functional as miRNAs! That's handy. #eseb2025
Thoughtful talk from Nathan Bailey on a species of Hawaiian cricket w/ two wing forms. The larger makes song that attracts mates more effectively, but also attracts predators. Surprisingly, also finds that the small wing type has more eggs and larger testes! #ESEB2025
August 20, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Thoughtful talk from Nathan Bailey on a species of Hawaiian cricket w/ two wing forms. The larger makes song that attracts mates more effectively, but also attracts predators. Surprisingly, also finds that the small wing type has more eggs and larger testes! #ESEB2025
Harris Lewen on the Earth BioGenome project
@ebpgenome.bsky.social , which aims to sequence all ~2M known eukaryote species - a hefty price tag, but argues that this is the Webb or LHC of our field. I might be biased, but this seems right. #ESEB2025
@ebpgenome.bsky.social , which aims to sequence all ~2M known eukaryote species - a hefty price tag, but argues that this is the Webb or LHC of our field. I might be biased, but this seems right. #ESEB2025
August 20, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Harris Lewen on the Earth BioGenome project
@ebpgenome.bsky.social , which aims to sequence all ~2M known eukaryote species - a hefty price tag, but argues that this is the Webb or LHC of our field. I might be biased, but this seems right. #ESEB2025
@ebpgenome.bsky.social , which aims to sequence all ~2M known eukaryote species - a hefty price tag, but argues that this is the Webb or LHC of our field. I might be biased, but this seems right. #ESEB2025