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We are currently advertising two #PhD projects to study the #evolution, #development and #genomics of sexual traits in stalk-eyed flies.

Deadline for applying is Wednesday, January 7, 2026. Get in touch for more info!

Join our online course on Sex Chromosome Evolution (6–10 Oct) with @astridboehne.bsky.social & @idarolti.bsky.social to gain hands-on experience in genomic and transcriptomic analyses.
www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

#SexChromosomes #GenomeEvolution #Transcriptomics #ComparativeGenomics

🚨 Super exited to see our paper on the inheritance and genetic basis of guppy color variation come out in @natecoevo.nature.com‬ rdcu.be/eugWV

Guppy males have enormous variation in color patterns, with many combinations of ornamental spots and stripes. But where does all this variation come from?

Am looking forward to being back in Athens for #Evol2025! Come see me talk about @vdbijl.bsky.social 's beautiful work on beautiful guppy colours on Saturday, 11:15 in the Athens GH. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🧬 New course: Sex Chromosome Evolution with @astridboehne.bsky.social & @idarolti.bsky.social
Learn to detect, analyze & interpret sex chromosomes using genomic and transcriptomic data—Hands-on, from study design to molecular evolution.

www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

🚨Anyone want a job?🚨
We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪
- cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo
- bioinformatics and molecular biology
Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies
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Just out - Genome of the Amazon Guppy (Poecilia bifurca) reveals conservation of sex chromosomes and dosage compensation. By @squarehare.bsky.social, with @idarolti.bsky.social and others not yet on Bsky.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

hi i'm new here but here's a poster i made featuring research by yuying lin and @judithmank.bsky.social!! i presented it at @evolmtg.bsky.social last year and the goal was journal cover meets back-of-napkin scribble meets "you know every science poster ever, yeah not that"

📣 We have extended our registration deadline to November 29!

Do not miss the opportunity to attend the largest conference in ecology and evolution in Switzerland!

Register at biology25.ch #Biology25

We are delighted to host the Biology25 conference @unil.bsky.social on 13-14 February, 2025. We are also bringing four engaging Satellite Events on February 12th.

📢 Registration and abstract submission are now open!

Spread the word! #Biology25
Details on biology25.ch

Just out at Nature E&E - @corrallopeza.bsky.social's tour de force! Functional convergence of genomic and transcriptomic genetic architecture underlying sociability. Heritability, GWAS and neuro-transcriptomics of collective behaviour, @ www.nature.com/articles/s41... w Niclas Kolm and many others.

Deep learning reveals the role of copy number variation in the genetic architecture of a highly polymorphic sexual trait. Wouter van der Bijl did it all - selection experiment, pedigrees, neural nets, GWAS - for the architecture of color and pattern in guppies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...