Our Editorial for our upcoming special issue in Molecular Ecology: Conservation Genomics—Making a Difference onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The value of structural variants to conservation genomics in the pangenome era
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Ancestors of Fishers translocated decades ago into the Rockies in northern ID and MT persist! #consgen #fishers

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De novo Genome Assemblies of Four Rainbow Trout Genetic Lines Reveal Structural Variants In Pursuit of a Pangenome Reference https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.11.681701v1

Neat job alert 🧬🐺🦌

Montana Fish Wildlife & Parks is hiring a wildlife conservation geneticist based in Missoula, MT. The position is joint with @umontana.bsky.social, working with Dr. Ryan Kovach on lots of neat wildlife #consgen projects. Reach out to Ryan with questions.

Effects of deleterious mutations on the fixation of chromosomal inversions on autosomes and sex chromosomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.10.681595v1

If you’ve heard about our study on ants producing two different species but are still confused about how it works (and don’t have time to read the paper), this 10-minute video made by @bengthomas.bsky.social is very informative:
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Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Legal battle reignites over Lower Snake River Dams, salmon

Size matters—but maybe not how we thought. Most chromosomal inversions are just a few hundred bp. Ignoring these “small players” could mean we’ve misunderstood how genomes evolve -out in TREE authors.elsevier.com/a/1ljL1cZ3X3...

New paper with @birdpicsandscience.bsky.social out TODAY!!

We found that choosing "highly informative loci" (aka high fst loci) may bias results in common population genetic analyses

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Explainer thread to come! #PopGen #PopulationGenomics #Evolution

Here are some beautiful examples of non-hybridized Redband Trout (O. mykiss gairdneri) from Montana. These fish are increasingly rare in Montana and are the state's only native Rainbow Trout (state rank: S1). FWP has recently spawned wild fish aiming to create a conservation hatchery broodstock.

Grateful to be included as a minor co-author on this paper! The assemblies in this paper have been a great resource for other work in the pipeline

📢 NEW GENOME ALERT 

In #G3journal, Lecomte et al. produced a chromosome-level genome assembly of brook trout and performed a comparative analysis to identify homology with sister species lake trout and Atlantic salmon.

Read more: buff.ly/if3vgmp

Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics

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The Greenland shark genome: insights into deep-sea ecology and lifespan extremes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.19.638963v1

It started in Egypt, with the construction of the Aswan dams, and continued across the basin through verid actions. Now the Mediterranean is receiving less fresh water, and less nutrients - lowering primary productivity and disrupting coastal and marine ecosystems. 🧪🌊
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Hello world! Excited to kick things off on 🦋 with great news: The third chapter of my PhD, with @michaelmhansen.bsky.social and a bunch of other great people, has just been published 🚀. We explore genomic 👣 of hybridization between European and American eel. Check it out! doi.org/10.1111/mec....

GREAT work by @craigdwells.bsky.social, Paul Spruell, et al. using genetics to evaluate the origins of migratory West Slope Cutthroat Trout sampled in the lower Pend Oreille basin. They found most fish assigned to populations above an impassable dam, which may be disrupting connectivity #ConsGen 🐟 🧬