New work from @miyapan.bsky.social and our team, bringing ant, bee, and wasp labs together. @chuanxinyu.bsky.social shows that the ANTSR locus we discovered in ants has determined sex for 150+ My across bees and stinging wasps 🐜🐝, despite virtually no sequence conservation 😮 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Barley et al. assembled and annotated a chromosome-level reference genome for a tiger whiptail lizard from coastal California, and reconstructed patterns of speciation and admixture within the larger species complex.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf218

#genome #evolution

Ho et al. present genome assemblies for the parental species of the unisexual hybrid New Mexico Whiptail Lizard, using it to analyze WGS data from the hybrids, suggesting that genomes of unisexual lineages diverge more quickly than anticipated.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf228

#genome #evolution