Rona Learmonth
@rona-learmonth.bsky.social
DPhil student at the University of Oxford.
Studying local adaptation and phenology in the winter moth 🦋🌿
Studying local adaptation and phenology in the winter moth 🦋🌿
New preprint! 🌳🐛
We combined experimental and genomic methods to study local adaptation of winter moths to variation in oak budburst timing in Wytham Woods, UK.
With @andreaestandia.bsky.social, Lea Beaupere, Ella Cole, and @sheldonbirds.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We combined experimental and genomic methods to study local adaptation of winter moths to variation in oak budburst timing in Wytham Woods, UK.
With @andreaestandia.bsky.social, Lea Beaupere, Ella Cole, and @sheldonbirds.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Integrative analysis of fine-scale local adaptation of winter moths to variable oak phenology
For herbivorous insects whose fitness depends on tight phenological synchrony with host plants, spatial variation in plant phenology can impose strong selective pressures and promote local adaptation ...
www.biorxiv.org
October 16, 2025 at 9:34 AM
New preprint! 🌳🐛
We combined experimental and genomic methods to study local adaptation of winter moths to variation in oak budburst timing in Wytham Woods, UK.
With @andreaestandia.bsky.social, Lea Beaupere, Ella Cole, and @sheldonbirds.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We combined experimental and genomic methods to study local adaptation of winter moths to variation in oak budburst timing in Wytham Woods, UK.
With @andreaestandia.bsky.social, Lea Beaupere, Ella Cole, and @sheldonbirds.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Rona Learmonth
Last week of winter moth trapping along the Phenoweb transect between Edinburgh and Inverness. We aim to study the spatial scale of local adaptation to oak phenology 🦋🌳🧬
with @rona-learmonth.bsky.social, @allyphillimore.bsky.social, @nilomr.bsky.social (and @sheldonbirds.bsky.social back in Oxford)
with @rona-learmonth.bsky.social, @allyphillimore.bsky.social, @nilomr.bsky.social (and @sheldonbirds.bsky.social back in Oxford)
December 9, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Last week of winter moth trapping along the Phenoweb transect between Edinburgh and Inverness. We aim to study the spatial scale of local adaptation to oak phenology 🦋🌳🧬
with @rona-learmonth.bsky.social, @allyphillimore.bsky.social, @nilomr.bsky.social (and @sheldonbirds.bsky.social back in Oxford)
with @rona-learmonth.bsky.social, @allyphillimore.bsky.social, @nilomr.bsky.social (and @sheldonbirds.bsky.social back in Oxford)