Andy Foote
@andrewfoote.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist using ancient and modern DNA to study evolution through time and space.
Freshwater-associated alleles in the ancient genomes are consistently found at the haploblock containing EDA on Chr IV, in the known inversions, and on the X-chromosome early in the adaptation to freshwater.
August 15, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Freshwater-associated alleles in the ancient genomes are consistently found at the haploblock containing EDA on Chr IV, in the known inversions, and on the X-chromosome early in the adaptation to freshwater.
'Ancient stickleback genomes reveal the early stages of parallel adaptation' - now published online in Evolution @journal-evo.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 5:12 AM
'Ancient stickleback genomes reveal the early stages of parallel adaptation' - now published online in Evolution @journal-evo.bsky.social
New lab preprint led by Jana Nickel (not on BS): doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Investigating hitchhiking mutation load in threespine sticklebacks. I'll be presenting this work in a few hours at #Stickleback2025 here in beautiful Bamfield
Investigating hitchhiking mutation load in threespine sticklebacks. I'll be presenting this work in a few hours at #Stickleback2025 here in beautiful Bamfield
July 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
New lab preprint led by Jana Nickel (not on BS): doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Investigating hitchhiking mutation load in threespine sticklebacks. I'll be presenting this work in a few hours at #Stickleback2025 here in beautiful Bamfield
Investigating hitchhiking mutation load in threespine sticklebacks. I'll be presenting this work in a few hours at #Stickleback2025 here in beautiful Bamfield
The Evolution of Cetacean Societies
Edited by @darrencroft.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social and.bsky.social @stephanielking.bsky.social and myself
Preorder available now
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#whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour
Edited by @darrencroft.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social and.bsky.social @stephanielking.bsky.social and myself
Preorder available now
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Will share more details closer to release date
#whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour
March 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
The Evolution of Cetacean Societies
Edited by @darrencroft.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social and.bsky.social @stephanielking.bsky.social and myself
Preorder available now
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Will share more details closer to release date
#whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour
Edited by @darrencroft.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social and.bsky.social @stephanielking.bsky.social and myself
Preorder available now
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Will share more details closer to release date
#whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour
The 2nd publication from @bellareeves.bsky.social PhD thesis finds a genetic rescue effect from admixture between distinct killer whale lineages. Likely the cause of high genetic diversity in regions with low killer whale density. Open access in Mol Ecol: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
February 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The 2nd publication from @bellareeves.bsky.social PhD thesis finds a genetic rescue effect from admixture between distinct killer whale lineages. Likely the cause of high genetic diversity in regions with low killer whale density. Open access in Mol Ecol: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
An inspiring start to the year at the ASN meeting in beautiful Asilomar. Thanks to Yoel Stuart and Jesse Weber for organising the It’s About Time symposium!
January 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
An inspiring start to the year at the ASN meeting in beautiful Asilomar. Thanks to Yoel Stuart and Jesse Weber for organising the It’s About Time symposium!
Congratulations to Flávia Schlichta. It was a pleasure to be back in Bern and to examine Flávia’s thesis on Consequences of range expansions on neutral and functional genomic diversity. One chapter is already published: doi.org/10.1093/molb...
December 18, 2024 at 8:37 AM
Congratulations to Flávia Schlichta. It was a pleasure to be back in Bern and to examine Flávia’s thesis on Consequences of range expansions on neutral and functional genomic diversity. One chapter is already published: doi.org/10.1093/molb...
Two opportunites for those interested in marine mammal population genomics.
1. A postdoc position to study pilot whales and dolphin species in the North Atlantic with Marie Louis: tinyurl.com/zfwdsnz3
2. A genomics workshop at the upcoming Society of Marine Mammalogy in Perth tinyurl.com/57z9cwy7
1. A postdoc position to study pilot whales and dolphin species in the North Atlantic with Marie Louis: tinyurl.com/zfwdsnz3
2. A genomics workshop at the upcoming Society of Marine Mammalogy in Perth tinyurl.com/57z9cwy7
June 26, 2024 at 6:34 AM
Two opportunites for those interested in marine mammal population genomics.
1. A postdoc position to study pilot whales and dolphin species in the North Atlantic with Marie Louis: tinyurl.com/zfwdsnz3
2. A genomics workshop at the upcoming Society of Marine Mammalogy in Perth tinyurl.com/57z9cwy7
1. A postdoc position to study pilot whales and dolphin species in the North Atlantic with Marie Louis: tinyurl.com/zfwdsnz3
2. A genomics workshop at the upcoming Society of Marine Mammalogy in Perth tinyurl.com/57z9cwy7
finishing in Groningen and Dr Fabricio Furni, seen here with his supervisor and my PhD examiner Per Palsbøll. Fabricio studied the evolutionary genomics of fin and humpback whales and has three great data chapters to publish. In his spare time has has worked on this stunning paper: shorturl.at/KBY5b
May 28, 2024 at 8:34 AM
finishing in Groningen and Dr Fabricio Furni, seen here with his supervisor and my PhD examiner Per Palsbøll. Fabricio studied the evolutionary genomics of fin and humpback whales and has three great data chapters to publish. In his spare time has has worked on this stunning paper: shorturl.at/KBY5b
onwards to Helsinki to Dr Xueyun Feng's studies of nine-spined sticklebacks, finding a complex demographic history and fascinating patterns of introgressed ancestry upon secondary contact between lineages. All chapters published or posted on biorxiv. doi.org/10.1111/mec.... doi.org/10.1093/molb...
May 28, 2024 at 8:26 AM
onwards to Helsinki to Dr Xueyun Feng's studies of nine-spined sticklebacks, finding a complex demographic history and fascinating patterns of introgressed ancestry upon secondary contact between lineages. All chapters published or posted on biorxiv. doi.org/10.1111/mec.... doi.org/10.1093/molb...
next Dr Marc Gose, University of Edinburgh, who studied pop genomics of 2 Atlantic dolphin species. Two chapters are already published, one chapter on white-beaked dolphins (shorturl.at/w1XgJ) making the cover of @heredityjournal.bsky.social! Another in the ICES journal
shorturl.at/WGTXI
shorturl.at/WGTXI
May 28, 2024 at 8:18 AM
next Dr Marc Gose, University of Edinburgh, who studied pop genomics of 2 Atlantic dolphin species. Two chapters are already published, one chapter on white-beaked dolphins (shorturl.at/w1XgJ) making the cover of @heredityjournal.bsky.social! Another in the ICES journal
shorturl.at/WGTXI
shorturl.at/WGTXI
Finally the end of 4 PhD examinations in 4 different countries in 1 month. Here are quick posts on the nascent Drs: First up, Dhurba Adhikari at Nord University in Bodø, Norway, studying pelvic spine assymetry and reduction in a population of Norwegian sticklebacks. www.mdpi.com/2410-3888/8/...
May 28, 2024 at 8:06 AM
Finally the end of 4 PhD examinations in 4 different countries in 1 month. Here are quick posts on the nascent Drs: First up, Dhurba Adhikari at Nord University in Bodø, Norway, studying pelvic spine assymetry and reduction in a population of Norwegian sticklebacks. www.mdpi.com/2410-3888/8/...
New study lead by Eve Jourdain (not on Bsky) investigating variation in kinship across an ecologically diverse social network in out now in PRSB: t.co/JPE8G1WhGx
April 17, 2024 at 9:21 AM
New study lead by Eve Jourdain (not on Bsky) investigating variation in kinship across an ecologically diverse social network in out now in PRSB: t.co/JPE8G1WhGx
Congratulations to Isabella Reeves (@bellaa_reeves on twitter) for receiving Outstanding student authored paper award from @theaga.bsky.social for her paper academic.oup.com/jhered/artic... published in the Journal of Heredity.
March 6, 2024 at 5:49 AM
Congratulations to Isabella Reeves (@bellaa_reeves on twitter) for receiving Outstanding student authored paper award from @theaga.bsky.social for her paper academic.oup.com/jhered/artic... published in the Journal of Heredity.
The hope was to obtain a time series of a population average allele frequencies rather than a single individual at a single time point.
February 12, 2024 at 5:08 PM
The hope was to obtain a time series of a population average allele frequencies rather than a single individual at a single time point.
... and collected sediment cores to test if we could obtain comparable genomic data from the Late Pleistocene sediments spanning the transition from Marine, through brackish and into freshwater layers.
February 12, 2024 at 5:06 PM
... and collected sediment cores to test if we could obtain comparable genomic data from the Late Pleistocene sediments spanning the transition from Marine, through brackish and into freshwater layers.
We returned to the post-glacial isolation lake from which we had previously sequenced an ancient stickleback genome from bones www.cell.com/current-biol...
February 12, 2024 at 5:04 PM
We returned to the post-glacial isolation lake from which we had previously sequenced an ancient stickleback genome from bones www.cell.com/current-biol...
Our new study 'Late Pleistocene stickleback environmental genomes reveal the chronology of freshwater adaptation' is now available open access online.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
February 12, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Our new study 'Late Pleistocene stickleback environmental genomes reveal the chronology of freshwater adaptation' is now available open access online.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Postdoc position using genomics to study evolutionary constraint in threespine stickleback in Diana Rennison's lab. A great opportunity:
November 21, 2023 at 7:36 AM
Postdoc position using genomics to study evolutionary constraint in threespine stickleback in Diana Rennison's lab. A great opportunity: