Sex, genes and speciation - Different chromosomes carrying famous genes determine males and females in common and spiny toads, driving their reproductive barriers. Hybrids, the battle of sex is on!

@isyeb.mnhn.fr @molbioevol.bsky.social
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Genetics or phenetics? Check out what best differentiates midwife toad taxa at various stage of their speciation continuum in our latest article freshly squeezed in Molecular Ecology with @batracofistro.bsky.social and many other co-authors!
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Our phylogeography of Duttaphrynus melanostictus is finally out in @naturecomms.bsky.social

Check out its fancy patterns, such as a new species from SE-Asia and suspicions of historical human-mediated dispersal across the Indian Ocean:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...