Gabe DuBose
@gabe-dubose.bsky.social
Ph.D. student in Population Biology, Ecology, and Evolution at Emory University.
NSF Graduate Research Fellow.
https://gabe-dubose.github.io/
NSF Graduate Research Fellow.
https://gabe-dubose.github.io/
Reposted by Gabe DuBose
Biophysical constraints on mRNA decay rates shape macroevolutionary divergence in steady-state abundances https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.24.690267v1
November 25, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Biophysical constraints on mRNA decay rates shape macroevolutionary divergence in steady-state abundances https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.24.690267v1
Reposted by Gabe DuBose
Mean fitness is maximized in small populations under stabilizing selection on highly polygenic traits https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.17.688329v1
November 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Mean fitness is maximized in small populations under stabilizing selection on highly polygenic traits https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.17.688329v1
Reposted by Gabe DuBose
Very proud that @gauravathreya.bsky.social's brilliant work based on his Master's thesis is out as his first paper in @asn-amnat.bsky.social. Interested in host-symbiont interdependence, eukaryogenesis, evolutionary transitions in individuality, and some great theory to back it?...check out the🧵👇
Interested in host-symbiont interdependence, eukaryogenesis, and evolutionary transitions in individuality? my first paper just came out! With @gokhalecs.bsky.social and Pete Czuppon, we study when & how individuality emerges in a host-endosymbiont collective doi.org/10.1086/737588 a short thread🧵:
July 24, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Very proud that @gauravathreya.bsky.social's brilliant work based on his Master's thesis is out as his first paper in @asn-amnat.bsky.social. Interested in host-symbiont interdependence, eukaryogenesis, evolutionary transitions in individuality, and some great theory to back it?...check out the🧵👇
Reposted by Gabe DuBose
New paper showing how immigration alters the ecological processes structuring the assembly and variation in #Monarch caterpillar gut #microbiomes.
w/ @jaapderoode.bsky.social, @gabe-dubose.bsky.social, Joselyne Chavez, Lydia Fuller-Hall
Ecology Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
w/ @jaapderoode.bsky.social, @gabe-dubose.bsky.social, Joselyne Chavez, Lydia Fuller-Hall
Ecology Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Experimental Immigration Mediates Ecological Selection and Drift in Monarch Microbiome Assembly
The distribution of biodiversity depends on processes operating across scales, yet multiscale paradigms have struggled to permeate host-microbiome research. By integrating multi-scale ecological theo...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
New paper showing how immigration alters the ecological processes structuring the assembly and variation in #Monarch caterpillar gut #microbiomes.
w/ @jaapderoode.bsky.social, @gabe-dubose.bsky.social, Joselyne Chavez, Lydia Fuller-Hall
Ecology Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
w/ @jaapderoode.bsky.social, @gabe-dubose.bsky.social, Joselyne Chavez, Lydia Fuller-Hall
Ecology Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Gabe DuBose
Phylogeny-aware simulations suggest a low impact of unsampled lineages in the inference of gene flow during eukaryogenesis
Excellent paper from @tonigabaldon.bsky.social and @microbiobits.bsky.social and Moisès Bernabeu.
academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...
Excellent paper from @tonigabaldon.bsky.social and @microbiobits.bsky.social and Moisès Bernabeu.
academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...
Phylogeny-aware simulations suggest a low impact of unsampled lineages in the inference of gene flow during eukaryogenesis
Abstract. The topologies of gene trees are broadly used to infer horizontal gene transfer events and characterize the potential donor and acceptor partners
academic.oup.com
October 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Phylogeny-aware simulations suggest a low impact of unsampled lineages in the inference of gene flow during eukaryogenesis
Excellent paper from @tonigabaldon.bsky.social and @microbiobits.bsky.social and Moisès Bernabeu.
academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...
Excellent paper from @tonigabaldon.bsky.social and @microbiobits.bsky.social and Moisès Bernabeu.
academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...
Reposted by Gabe DuBose
Quantitative system drift https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.17.676933v1
September 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Quantitative system drift https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.17.676933v1
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"Biologists often become alienated from mathematics at an early stage in their career under the misconception [...] that biology is not a mathematical science. The claim is also often made that mathematical theory is overly simplistic, ignoring the [...] complex nature of biological systems."
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September 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
"Biologists often become alienated from mathematics at an early stage in their career under the misconception [...] that biology is not a mathematical science. The claim is also often made that mathematical theory is overly simplistic, ignoring the [...] complex nature of biological systems."
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Reposted by Gabe DuBose
Dynamics of fixation probability in a population with fluctuating size https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.26.672280v1
August 30, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Dynamics of fixation probability in a population with fluctuating size https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.26.672280v1
Super excited to share this work from an awesome collaboration between myself and Charles Wang, an incredibly bright and motivated undergraduate in the lab!
Pleiotropy and the evolutionary stability of plastic phenotypes: a geometric framework doi.org/10.32942/X2Q...
August 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Super excited to share this work from an awesome collaboration between myself and Charles Wang, an incredibly bright and motivated undergraduate in the lab!
Reposted by Gabe DuBose
Graph Neural Networks for Likelihood-Free Inference in Diversification Models https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.14.670341v1
August 19, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Graph Neural Networks for Likelihood-Free Inference in Diversification Models https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.14.670341v1
Reposted by Gabe DuBose
The evolution of reversible plasticity in stable environments
doi.org/10.1093/evle...
Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Nicole Walasek et al.
doi.org/10.1093/evle...
Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Nicole Walasek et al.
The evolution of reversible plasticity in stable environments
Abstract. Reversible plasticity, i.e., the ability to deconstruct phenotypic specializations based on environmental conditions, is widespread in nature. De
doi.org
August 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The evolution of reversible plasticity in stable environments
doi.org/10.1093/evle...
Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Nicole Walasek et al.
doi.org/10.1093/evle...
Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Nicole Walasek et al.
Reposted by Gabe DuBose
Strategic citations for a fairer academic landscape https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.06.668908v1
August 8, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Strategic citations for a fairer academic landscape https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.06.668908v1
Reposted by Gabe DuBose
Developmental system drift in the patterning of the arthropod tarsus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.08.663771v1
July 12, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Developmental system drift in the patterning of the arthropod tarsus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.08.663771v1
Reposted by Gabe DuBose
The evolution of high-order genome architecture revealed from 1,000 species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.05.663309v1
July 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
The evolution of high-order genome architecture revealed from 1,000 species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.05.663309v1
Reposted by Gabe DuBose
The impact of background selection in mutation-selection-drift balance models of complex trait evolution https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.27.656342v1
May 28, 2025 at 6:33 AM
The impact of background selection in mutation-selection-drift balance models of complex trait evolution https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.27.656342v1
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Pleiotropy and facilitation of local adaptation in the silverleaf sunflower Helianthus argophyllus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.22.655459v1
May 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Pleiotropy and facilitation of local adaptation in the silverleaf sunflower Helianthus argophyllus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.22.655459v1
Super happy to share the pre-print for this project after >5 years in the works!
The roles of dispersal limitation and pre-adaptation in shaping Paraburkholderia endosymbiont frequencies in social amoeba communities https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.20.654931v1
May 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Super happy to share the pre-print for this project after >5 years in the works!
Reposted by Gabe DuBose
When should adaptation arise from a polygenic response versus few large effect changes? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.15.654234v1
May 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
When should adaptation arise from a polygenic response versus few large effect changes? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.15.654234v1
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Sex decreases the pleiotropic costs of local adaptation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.28.646016v1
March 31, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Sex decreases the pleiotropic costs of local adaptation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.28.646016v1
Reposted by Gabe DuBose
Why aren't more researchers publishing in society journals?
Two potential reasons:
1) They're often unfamiliar to early-career researchers,
and/or 2) they need better promotion, a task for all of us.
Two potential reasons:
1) They're often unfamiliar to early-career researchers,
and/or 2) they need better promotion, a task for all of us.
March 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Why aren't more researchers publishing in society journals?
Two potential reasons:
1) They're often unfamiliar to early-career researchers,
and/or 2) they need better promotion, a task for all of us.
Two potential reasons:
1) They're often unfamiliar to early-career researchers,
and/or 2) they need better promotion, a task for all of us.
Reposted by Gabe DuBose
March issue: Amino acids that are more different do have lower rates of exchange over evolutionary time, and this result is general to different taxonomic groups.
doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
#MolecularEvolution #AminoAcids #OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
#MolecularEvolution #AminoAcids #OpenAccess
Amino Acid Properties, Substitution Rates, and the Nearly Neutral Theory
Abstract. Do the properties of amino acids affect their rates of substitution? The neutral theory predicts that greater selective constraint leads to slowe
doi.org
March 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
March issue: Amino acids that are more different do have lower rates of exchange over evolutionary time, and this result is general to different taxonomic groups.
doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
#MolecularEvolution #AminoAcids #OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
#MolecularEvolution #AminoAcids #OpenAccess
Reposted by Gabe DuBose
Excited to share our new paper in Ecology Letters w @lars-brudvig.bsky.social, the culmination of more than a half decade of great fun and research from a landscape-scale experiment in tallgrass prairies! #CommunityAssembly, #PlantDiversity, #RestorationEcology, #Scale, #Prediction
Regional Processes Mediate Ecological Selection and the Distribution of Plant Diversity Across Scales
This experiment quantifies how species pool size and immigration influence plant community assembly in restored grasslands. Our findings reveal that greater immigration (seed arrival) and smaller spe...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Excited to share our new paper in Ecology Letters w @lars-brudvig.bsky.social, the culmination of more than a half decade of great fun and research from a landscape-scale experiment in tallgrass prairies! #CommunityAssembly, #PlantDiversity, #RestorationEcology, #Scale, #Prediction
Reposted by Gabe DuBose
A good opinion piece from the EiC of FEE: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
I find society-owned journals more rigorous, and more supportive to the scientific community. Whenever possible, let's give society journals more support as well @esajournals.bsky.social.
I find society-owned journals more rigorous, and more supportive to the scientific community. Whenever possible, let's give society journals more support as well @esajournals.bsky.social.
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esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 4, 2025 at 12:01 AM
A good opinion piece from the EiC of FEE: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
I find society-owned journals more rigorous, and more supportive to the scientific community. Whenever possible, let's give society journals more support as well @esajournals.bsky.social.
I find society-owned journals more rigorous, and more supportive to the scientific community. Whenever possible, let's give society journals more support as well @esajournals.bsky.social.
Reposted by Gabe DuBose
Accelerated genome shuffling associated with rapid evolution of sexual conflict in seed beetles https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.24.639998v1
February 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Accelerated genome shuffling associated with rapid evolution of sexual conflict in seed beetles https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.24.639998v1