Phylogeny of tinamous based on whole-genomes and fossils: academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan... 🪶🧪 (📷Musher et al.)

Now available in Systematic Biology, a new paper (and R package) in which we outline an approach to account for non-independence in comparative analyses of lineage-pair traits academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

The Sudmant lab at UC Berkeley is seeking a postdoc to work on a fully funded NIH project to understand differences in DNA repair and somatic mutation across the primate tree of life. Please spread widely to those who may be interested aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05052

New preprint characterizing diverse hybrid dysfunction phenotypes (sperm, gonads, copulatory structures) despite no detectable pre-zygotic isolation, work led by students Maia Dall'Acqua and Amanda Peak (now with @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social ) #celegans www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very excited to dive into this work on time-varying outcomes of hybridization & fitness landscapes by Schneemann and Welch www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Estimating and understanding sources of uncertainty in diversification rates with Rosana Zenil-Ferguson out in an issue in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Just accepted #EcologyLetters! Exciting work by recent grad Rebecca Schalkowski with @katjakasimatis.bsky.social and Megan Greischar linking 2 species community coexistence to sperm cell mediated reproductive interference! Preprint here www.authorea.com/users/804447...

Ok people. I’m drawing silhouettes this afternoon. If you have a paper coming up and you are in need of a #silhouette please let me know and I will have it ready today. As always I upload all my silhouettes to phylopic.org

I also have tutorials on how to put a silhouette in a plot in R.

Hey BlueSkyers, we’re finalizing a #meta-analysis 📚 on comparative studies examining the link between #SexualSelection and #Speciation. If you have unpublished data or know of studies that might not surface in a systematic search, please reach out - we’d love to include them!

Please share!

Quantitative Genetics of Microbiome Mediated Traits https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.16.628599v1

Read about "Testing the Mating System Model of Parasite Complex Life Cycle Evolution Reveals Demographically Driven Mixed Mating" by Hulke & Criscione here: www.amnat.org/an/newpapers...

Read the article: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

NEW preprint!🥳

Orthogroups are a prerequisite for comparative genomics and Tree of Life inquiries

Introducing #OrthoHMM, software that improves the inference of orthogroups (blue in fig)

OrthoHMM may refine our understanding of genome evolution and the Tree of Life

🔗 tinyurl.com/4s9mwxz6

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Does metabolic rate influence genome-wide amino acid composition in the course of animal evolution?
doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Wei Wang and De-Xing Zhang.

Poem “Academic Indian Job Description: Have To Know,”
by Dr. Cash Ahenakew (Cree)

blogs.ubc.ca/edst/2020/06...

#DisabledinSTEM #BlackInSTEM #LatinxInSTEM
#IndigenousInSTEM #NATIVESINSTEM

Increasing crop diversity is likely to be crucial for future food security. Domesticating more types of crops might be one way of achieving that. 🧪
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Achieving that will call for more collaboration, exchange, and a bit of opening to new things.

How I landed on Bluesky