Joana Meier
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Joana Meier
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Group leader and Royal Society URF @Wellcome Sanger Institute
Branco Weiss fellow @University of Cambridge
speciation, genomics, hybridisation
Honeypot ants (any species), Eciton burchelli (the best-known army ant) and leafcutter ants like Atta. I would also talk about interactions between ants and
- ant birds (with army ants)
- ant-mimicking jumping spiders
- butterfly caterpillars (e.g. Lysandra coridon)
- fungi (e.g. with Atta ants)
November 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
You can see the status of which species we sequenced here: psyche.tol.sanger.ac.uk please consider our authorship guidelines when using these genomes: www.projectpsyche.org
PSYCHE
psyche.tol.sanger.ac.uk
October 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Huge thanks to the teams sampling, managing sample tracking, processing them in the lab, sequencing them, assembing and curating the genomes or supporting us with computational infrastructure.
October 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
You can see the status of which species we sequenced here: psyche.tol.sanger.ac.uk please consider our authorship guidelines when using these genomes: www.projectpsyche.org
October 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Huge thanks to the teams sampling, managing sample tracking, processing them in the lab, sequencing them, assembing and curating the genomes or supporting us with computational infrastructure.
October 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Reposted by Joana Meier
We are also deeply saddened that the Madeiran Large White, Pieris wollastoni, is now officially extinct: it was last seen in 1986. The full report can be downloaded here www.bc-europe.eu/documents/68...
October 11, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Despite the rearrangements, we find evidence of past hybridisation throughout the evolutionary history of these radiations. Multiple species show strongly admixed ancestries, indicating that hybridisation may have facilitated their evolution. This is something we are currently investigating more.
July 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM