Quentin Martinez
@quentinwildlife.bsky.social
Post-doc researcher and Wildlife Photographer.
Evolution of olfactory systems using integrative approaches.
Frog lover 🐸
quentinmartinez.fr
Evolution of olfactory systems using integrative approaches.
Frog lover 🐸
quentinmartinez.fr
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A 45-million-year-old cetacean brain exhibits prominent olfactory regions, indicating that early whales retained a sense of smell 🐳🧠
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After two years of hard work, I’m proud to announce that our new special exhibition @smnstuttgart.bsky.social is now open for the public – Meet Triassic Life: Dawn of the world of reptiles (1/7).
October 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
After two years of hard work, I’m proud to announce that our new special exhibition @smnstuttgart.bsky.social is now open for the public – Meet Triassic Life: Dawn of the world of reptiles (1/7).
Thrilled to have won the Amphibians and Reptiles category of the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year and to be able to share this fascinating frog behavior! #wpy61 #frogs #herpetology www.quentinmartinez.fr
October 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Thrilled to have won the Amphibians and Reptiles category of the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year and to be able to share this fascinating frog behavior! #wpy61 #frogs #herpetology www.quentinmartinez.fr
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🎉 PAPER OUT ! Happy to see another chapter of my PhD out in #MBE ! The African pygmy mouse flips the script on sex determination. Its multiple sex and neo-sex chromosomes 🤯 shape brain transcriptomes and drive sexual polymorphism, reflecting new evolutionary trajectories for sex-linked regions.
Heitzmann et al. compared brain transcriptomes of four sexual genotypes of the African pygmy mouse, showing how sex and neo-sex chromosomes impacted transcriptomes to reflect their transmission mode, evolutionary trajectories, and genomic conflicts.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf208
#evobio #molbio
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf208
#evobio #molbio
September 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
🎉 PAPER OUT ! Happy to see another chapter of my PhD out in #MBE ! The African pygmy mouse flips the script on sex determination. Its multiple sex and neo-sex chromosomes 🤯 shape brain transcriptomes and drive sexual polymorphism, reflecting new evolutionary trajectories for sex-linked regions.
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🚨 We are looking for 2 PhD students! 🧠🐸👃
Join the Manzini Lab @jlugiessen.bsky.social to explore the olfactory system in #aquatic #vertebrates.
We mainly use #amphibians, combining:
🔬 Imaging
👩🔬 Cell biology
🐝 Behavior
👉 bit.ly/neurophd
🌍 bit.ly/manzinilab
Please share!
#PhD #neuroscience #job
Join the Manzini Lab @jlugiessen.bsky.social to explore the olfactory system in #aquatic #vertebrates.
We mainly use #amphibians, combining:
🔬 Imaging
👩🔬 Cell biology
🐝 Behavior
👉 bit.ly/neurophd
🌍 bit.ly/manzinilab
Please share!
#PhD #neuroscience #job
August 22, 2025 at 8:15 AM
🚨 We are looking for 2 PhD students! 🧠🐸👃
Join the Manzini Lab @jlugiessen.bsky.social to explore the olfactory system in #aquatic #vertebrates.
We mainly use #amphibians, combining:
🔬 Imaging
👩🔬 Cell biology
🐝 Behavior
👉 bit.ly/neurophd
🌍 bit.ly/manzinilab
Please share!
#PhD #neuroscience #job
Join the Manzini Lab @jlugiessen.bsky.social to explore the olfactory system in #aquatic #vertebrates.
We mainly use #amphibians, combining:
🔬 Imaging
👩🔬 Cell biology
🐝 Behavior
👉 bit.ly/neurophd
🌍 bit.ly/manzinilab
Please share!
#PhD #neuroscience #job
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Our paper on rodent thumbnails is out! Big team effort, powered by museum collections. Turns out, nails can reveal a lot about rodent evolution. Shoutout to Dr. Gordon Shepherd for the wild idea to study rodents thumbs!
New findings in Science suggest that rodents owe much of their evolutionary success to their thumb-nail (the first digit, D1), an adaptation that gave them dexterous hands for cracking seeds and nuts.
Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/46caVho
Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/46caVho
September 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Our paper on rodent thumbnails is out! Big team effort, powered by museum collections. Turns out, nails can reveal a lot about rodent evolution. Shoutout to Dr. Gordon Shepherd for the wild idea to study rodents thumbs!
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A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species
go.nature.com/4mOb5T9
go.nature.com/4mOb5T9
‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother
Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.
go.nature.com
September 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species
go.nature.com/4mOb5T9
go.nature.com/4mOb5T9
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Huge congratulations to Isabelle Toussaint-Lardé on publishing the first paper of her PhD! 🎉
Ever wondered whether paedomorphic species change their feeding strategies from larval to adult stages? Is adulthood in axolotls just an illusion? 🧠👀
Ever wondered whether paedomorphic species change their feeding strategies from larval to adult stages? Is adulthood in axolotls just an illusion? 🧠👀
August 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Huge congratulations to Isabelle Toussaint-Lardé on publishing the first paper of her PhD! 🎉
Ever wondered whether paedomorphic species change their feeding strategies from larval to adult stages? Is adulthood in axolotls just an illusion? 🧠👀
Ever wondered whether paedomorphic species change their feeding strategies from larval to adult stages? Is adulthood in axolotls just an illusion? 🧠👀
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I am proud and grateful to present a dream project today in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Meet #Mirasaura grauvogeli, a #wonderreptilewith skin appendages that rival feathers and hairs, challenging our view of reptile #evolution🪶🦎
Meet #Mirasaura grauvogeli, a #wonderreptilewith skin appendages that rival feathers and hairs, challenging our view of reptile #evolution🪶🦎
July 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I am proud and grateful to present a dream project today in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Meet #Mirasaura grauvogeli, a #wonderreptilewith skin appendages that rival feathers and hairs, challenging our view of reptile #evolution🪶🦎
Meet #Mirasaura grauvogeli, a #wonderreptilewith skin appendages that rival feathers and hairs, challenging our view of reptile #evolution🪶🦎
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Thrilled to share our new paper out in BMC, part of my postdoc at @cornellvet.bsky.social! 🐘🐀
We found that larger mammals evolve more diverse morphologies, while smaller ones can explore many locomotor strategies without much change to their forelimbs.
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
We found that larger mammals evolve more diverse morphologies, while smaller ones can explore many locomotor strategies without much change to their forelimbs.
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Body mass evolution as a driver of morphological and ecological diversity in terrestrial mammals - BMC Ecology and Evolution
Body mass plays a fundamental role in the macroevolutionary dynamics of morphological, ecological, and phylogenetic diversification. Given biomechanical principles, large body masses in terrestrial ve...
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com
July 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Thrilled to share our new paper out in BMC, part of my postdoc at @cornellvet.bsky.social! 🐘🐀
We found that larger mammals evolve more diverse morphologies, while smaller ones can explore many locomotor strategies without much change to their forelimbs.
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
We found that larger mammals evolve more diverse morphologies, while smaller ones can explore many locomotor strategies without much change to their forelimbs.
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
A 45-million-year-old cetacean brain exhibits prominent olfactory regions, indicating that early whales retained a sense of smell 🐳🧠
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
@smnstuttgart.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
@smnstuttgart.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 7:19 AM
A 45-million-year-old cetacean brain exhibits prominent olfactory regions, indicating that early whales retained a sense of smell 🐳🧠
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
@smnstuttgart.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
@smnstuttgart.bsky.social
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Fossil brain 🧠🧟 of a 45-million-year-old cetacean! We are proud to publish @journal-evo.bsky.social l the result of Elena Berger’s Bachelor’s thesis @smnstuttgart.bsky.social. Thread 👇
July 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Fossil brain 🧠🧟 of a 45-million-year-old cetacean! We are proud to publish @journal-evo.bsky.social l the result of Elena Berger’s Bachelor’s thesis @smnstuttgart.bsky.social. Thread 👇
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🚨🚨PhD position alert!🚨🚨
Do you like 🐢🐢? Or ecomorph evolution? I am offering a 36-month PhD position funded by the DFG about ecomorphology and neuroanatomy of turtles. Check out the ad here: www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc...
Please share and if you have questions, send me a message 😉
Do you like 🐢🐢? Or ecomorph evolution? I am offering a 36-month PhD position funded by the DFG about ecomorphology and neuroanatomy of turtles. Check out the ad here: www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc...
Please share and if you have questions, send me a message 😉
May 30, 2025 at 8:40 AM
🚨🚨PhD position alert!🚨🚨
Do you like 🐢🐢? Or ecomorph evolution? I am offering a 36-month PhD position funded by the DFG about ecomorphology and neuroanatomy of turtles. Check out the ad here: www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc...
Please share and if you have questions, send me a message 😉
Do you like 🐢🐢? Or ecomorph evolution? I am offering a 36-month PhD position funded by the DFG about ecomorphology and neuroanatomy of turtles. Check out the ad here: www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc...
Please share and if you have questions, send me a message 😉
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My official baptism of Bluesky!
Hot off the press!
My last chapter of PhD has been finally published! Here we compare the internal anatomy of the chela closing muscles in two species of scorpions at the extremes of the chela morphological gradient.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Hot off the press!
My last chapter of PhD has been finally published! Here we compare the internal anatomy of the chela closing muscles in two species of scorpions at the extremes of the chela morphological gradient.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Functional Divergence of Scorpion Pedipalps: Musculoskeletal Specialization Toward Opposing Performance Optima
We investigated the determinants of pincer (chela) closing performance in two scorpion species representing extremes of chela morphology. Using synchrotron-based 3D models and muscle architecture dat...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
My official baptism of Bluesky!
Hot off the press!
My last chapter of PhD has been finally published! Here we compare the internal anatomy of the chela closing muscles in two species of scorpions at the extremes of the chela morphological gradient.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Hot off the press!
My last chapter of PhD has been finally published! Here we compare the internal anatomy of the chela closing muscles in two species of scorpions at the extremes of the chela morphological gradient.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Almost the weekend! Georges the caecilian (Herpele squalostoma) is clearly feeling it too! 🪱
#NameItToSaveIt #Caecilian #Amphibians @smnstuttgart.bsky.social
#NameItToSaveIt #Caecilian #Amphibians @smnstuttgart.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Almost the weekend! Georges the caecilian (Herpele squalostoma) is clearly feeling it too! 🪱
#NameItToSaveIt #Caecilian #Amphibians @smnstuttgart.bsky.social
#NameItToSaveIt #Caecilian #Amphibians @smnstuttgart.bsky.social
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Paper alert 🚨
Our 1rst paper with @vivienl.bsky.social and colleagues is out in Functional Ecology! In this paper, we investigated how complete metamorphosis promotes morphological and functional diversity in Caudata.Want to know more? Read this👇
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Our 1rst paper with @vivienl.bsky.social and colleagues is out in Functional Ecology! In this paper, we investigated how complete metamorphosis promotes morphological and functional diversity in Caudata.Want to know more? Read this👇
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Complete metamorphosis promotes morphological and functional diversity in Caudata
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 30, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Paper alert 🚨
Our 1rst paper with @vivienl.bsky.social and colleagues is out in Functional Ecology! In this paper, we investigated how complete metamorphosis promotes morphological and functional diversity in Caudata.Want to know more? Read this👇
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Our 1rst paper with @vivienl.bsky.social and colleagues is out in Functional Ecology! In this paper, we investigated how complete metamorphosis promotes morphological and functional diversity in Caudata.Want to know more? Read this👇
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Happy to have had the opportunity to write a short article discussing the findings of an exciting recent paper on the diversification of burrowing behaviour in mammals by Pinkert et al. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kzR93QW8S... (Full access via link until 10.06.25)
April 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Happy to have had the opportunity to write a short article discussing the findings of an exciting recent paper on the diversification of burrowing behaviour in mammals by Pinkert et al. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kzR93QW8S... (Full access via link until 10.06.25)
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New @erc.europa.eu funded #ConvergeAnt preprint on using the evolution of pseudogenes to document the parallel regression of oral anatomy in myrmecophagous mammals posted at @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
February 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
New @erc.europa.eu funded #ConvergeAnt preprint on using the evolution of pseudogenes to document the parallel regression of oral anatomy in myrmecophagous mammals posted at @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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We are hiring!! 🦎🧠🐍 2 year postdoc to work on on the evolution of brains in snakes and lizards (on our current ARC Discovery project).
Applications close 25th March 2025!
careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
Applications close 25th March 2025!
careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
Learn more about South Australia's new university for the future.
careers.adelaide.edu.au
February 24, 2025 at 6:07 AM
We are hiring!! 🦎🧠🐍 2 year postdoc to work on on the evolution of brains in snakes and lizards (on our current ARC Discovery project).
Applications close 25th March 2025!
careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
Applications close 25th March 2025!
careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
Fun data acquisition at the Senckenberg Nature Museum! More #herpetology and #mammalogy to come! 🐻🐸🐍🦎
February 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Fun data acquisition at the Senckenberg Nature Museum! More #herpetology and #mammalogy to come! 🐻🐸🐍🦎
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We CT scanned thousands of vertebrates from US natural history collections and made them freely available. Countless people have used the data for research (>200 pubs) and to learn anatomy/morphology.
www.morphosource.org/projects/000...
www.morphosource.org/projects/000...
January 29, 2025 at 1:01 AM
We CT scanned thousands of vertebrates from US natural history collections and made them freely available. Countless people have used the data for research (>200 pubs) and to learn anatomy/morphology.
www.morphosource.org/projects/000...
www.morphosource.org/projects/000...
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Museum Resource 🩻 Digital Imaging Gallery
Our Digital Imaging Division produces two- and three-dimensional data from museum collections. Many are available on Sketchfab & Morphosource. Explore some of the specimens our digitization team has been working on:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/digital-lab/...
Our Digital Imaging Division produces two- and three-dimensional data from museum collections. Many are available on Sketchfab & Morphosource. Explore some of the specimens our digitization team has been working on:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/digital-lab/...
January 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Museum Resource 🩻 Digital Imaging Gallery
Our Digital Imaging Division produces two- and three-dimensional data from museum collections. Many are available on Sketchfab & Morphosource. Explore some of the specimens our digitization team has been working on:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/digital-lab/...
Our Digital Imaging Division produces two- and three-dimensional data from museum collections. Many are available on Sketchfab & Morphosource. Explore some of the specimens our digitization team has been working on:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/digital-lab/...
Exciting PhD opportunity with amazing supervisors—don't miss out! 🦴🔬🐸
PhD position alert: join a diverse team of palaeontologists to study the evolution of temnospondyls! The PhD project @smnstuttgart.bsky.social will focus on bone microanatomy: lots of fun with thin-sections and CT in perspective. Whoever you are: don't hesitate to reach out!
tinyurl.com/msvntnd9
tinyurl.com/msvntnd9
January 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Exciting PhD opportunity with amazing supervisors—don't miss out! 🦴🔬🐸
Happy New Year, featuring some Bornean highlights from last summer! #herpetology 🐍🦎🐸
January 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Happy New Year, featuring some Bornean highlights from last summer! #herpetology 🐍🦎🐸
What is this unique needle-like sesamoid for?
Well, we do not know yet... so stay tuned!
Meanwhile, check out our new paper on the evolution of #shrews
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Well, we do not know yet... so stay tuned!
Meanwhile, check out our new paper on the evolution of #shrews
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
December 18, 2024 at 3:50 AM
What is this unique needle-like sesamoid for?
Well, we do not know yet... so stay tuned!
Meanwhile, check out our new paper on the evolution of #shrews
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Well, we do not know yet... so stay tuned!
Meanwhile, check out our new paper on the evolution of #shrews
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Excited to regularly share squamate renderings created with our recently published SmARTR photorealistic pipeline—all derived from solely CT scan data! Check out the networks to create your own also here: github.com/MeVisLab/SmA...
December 2, 2024 at 10:19 AM
Excited to regularly share squamate renderings created with our recently published SmARTR photorealistic pipeline—all derived from solely CT scan data! Check out the networks to create your own also here: github.com/MeVisLab/SmA...