Róisín Long
@roisinlong.bsky.social
PhD student in evolutionary genetics 🧬
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Yesterday @vibe2025.bsky.social I spoke about my work on mechanisms driving Rediploidisation after autopolyploidisation in the Acipenseriformes and Hox cluster Evolution in these fish! @wgdip.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Yesterday @vibe2025.bsky.social I spoke about my work on mechanisms driving Rediploidisation after autopolyploidisation in the Acipenseriformes and Hox cluster Evolution in these fish! @wgdip.bsky.social
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Latest work out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social
We find the fly development gene bicoid is much older than previously thought (~20 million yrs older!) 🪰🧬
To pinpoint its origins we tackled the Diptera phylogeny, providing some resolution (many open questions remain).
🔗 tinyurl.com/2vyuevpy
We find the fly development gene bicoid is much older than previously thought (~20 million yrs older!) 🪰🧬
To pinpoint its origins we tackled the Diptera phylogeny, providing some resolution (many open questions remain).
🔗 tinyurl.com/2vyuevpy
Revised evolutionary relationships within Brachycera and the early origin of bicoid in flies
Mulhair et al. uncover a functional bicoid in non-cyclorrhaphan flies, pushing the
gene's origin back by ∼20 million years. Reassessing the Diptera phylogeny using the
largest dataset to date permits ...
www.cell.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Latest work out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social
We find the fly development gene bicoid is much older than previously thought (~20 million yrs older!) 🪰🧬
To pinpoint its origins we tackled the Diptera phylogeny, providing some resolution (many open questions remain).
🔗 tinyurl.com/2vyuevpy
We find the fly development gene bicoid is much older than previously thought (~20 million yrs older!) 🪰🧬
To pinpoint its origins we tackled the Diptera phylogeny, providing some resolution (many open questions remain).
🔗 tinyurl.com/2vyuevpy
Reposted by Róisín Long
Revised evolutionary relationships within Brachycera and the early origin of bicoid in flies https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.22.666104v1
July 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Revised evolutionary relationships within Brachycera and the early origin of bicoid in flies https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.22.666104v1
Reposted by Róisín Long
We held the first (mostly) in person meeting of the WGDip project. It was a great opportunity to foster discourse across the consortium and align our goals for the project. We are all eager to get started and delve into whole genome duplication and rediploidisation in eukaryotic evolution!☀️ 🌍
#WGDip
#WGDip
June 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
We held the first (mostly) in person meeting of the WGDip project. It was a great opportunity to foster discourse across the consortium and align our goals for the project. We are all eager to get started and delve into whole genome duplication and rediploidisation in eukaryotic evolution!☀️ 🌍
#WGDip
#WGDip