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wenjuanma84.bsky.social
🚨Hiring a postdoc!

Are you interested in #evolutionarygenomics, #sexchromosomes, #transposableelements & #Sexspecific #recombination in 🐸🧬?

Join my lab @vubrussel.bsky.social
🔹 @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social funded up to 3y
🔹 Deadline 10/3/2026
🔹 Start ~1/6/2026

Apply 👉: jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-P...
January 22, 2026 at 9:37 AM
wenjuanma84.bsky.social
Really enjoyed @thomaslenormand.bsky.social explain the unified theory today at @popgroup2026.bsky.social in Lille: inspiring, thought-provoking, and very timely 🧠🤯✨

Reposting his post on the paper here: highly recommended read!

#evolution #sexchromosomes #largeXeffects #haldane'srule #speciation
January 10, 2026 at 2:51 AM
wenjuanma84.bsky.social
Very excited to share that our FWO research grant @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social has been awarded! 🎉🧬🐸

Over the next 4 years, our Lab at @vubrussel.bsky.social will study the evolutionary and genetic drivers of rapid sex chromosome turnover in 🐸

Grateful to #FWO for the support!

#SexChromosomes
December 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
hobzalab.bsky.social
Many thanks to Michail Rovatsos of @sciencecharles.bsky.social for his guest seminar about sex chromosomes in reptiles! Fascinating discussions about how they compare to our model plants are to follow 🐍🌿 #SexChromosomes #DosageCompensation
Person presenting a scientific seminar Presentation slide showing a phylogenetic tree
December 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
deborahjross.bsky.social
Woman had her twin brother's XY chromosomes---but only in her blood. Her skin cell karyotype was XX. Doctors identified her condition as chimerism, in which the body contains at least two different sets of DNA across different cells. #sexchromosomes
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Diagnostic dilemma: Woman had her twin brother's XY chromosomes — but only in her blood
Doctors discovered a woman had "blood chimerism" after examining the chromosomes of cells from different parts of her body.
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November 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
deborahjross.bsky.social
Woman had her twin brother's XY chromosomes, but only in her blood. Her skin cell karyotype was XX. Doctors identified her condition as chimerism, in which the body contains at least two different sets of DNA across different cells. #sexchromosomes
buff.ly/TDgdKlo
Diagnostic dilemma: Woman had her twin brother's XY chromosomes — but only in her blood
Doctors discovered a woman had "blood chimerism" after examining the chromosomes of cells from different parts of her body.
buff.ly
November 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
leibnizlib.bsky.social
#LIBresearch: New work on cichlid fishes shows how different sex-chromosome systems drive males & females to evolve distinct gene-activity patterns - shaping how their traits diverge.
→ doi.org/10.1111/mec....

@astridboehne.bsky.social

©Adobe Stock, David

#Genomics #SexChromosomes
Cyprichromis microlepidotus, Lake Tanganyika cichlid in the aquarium.
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
deborahjross.bsky.social
Woman had her twin brother's XY chromosomes — but only in her blood. Her skin cell karyotype was XX. Doctors identified her condition as chimerism, in which the body contains at least two different sets of DNA across different cells. #sexchromosomes
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Diagnostic dilemma: Woman had her twin brother's XY chromosomes — but only in her blood
Doctors discovered a woman had "blood chimerism" after examining the chromosomes of cells from different parts of her body.
buff.ly
November 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
wenjuanma84.bsky.social
Excited that our new collaborative work on Amazonian frogs with giant meiotic chains of 8–12 😲 #SexChromosomes now is out in @commsbio.nature.com! 🐸🧬

Investigating the evolution of large meiotic rings of multiple X and Y chromosomes in two Leptodactylus species
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s42...
November 22, 2025 at 12:12 AM
the-14.com
Hundreds of genes act differently in the brains of men and women
#Science #Brain #Genetics #Neuroscience #BrainResearch #MenAndWomen #Biology #Health #SexChromosomes #Alzheimers #Parkinsons #Male #Female #Woman #Man #HumanBrain #SexDifferences
the-14.com/hundreds-of-...
Hundreds of genes act differently in the brains of men and women | The-14
Hundreds of genes act differently in male and female brains, shaping development, behaviour and risk of diseases like Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s from early life.
the-14.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
lucija-andjel.bsky.social
Proud to have presented two poster presentations at #ESEB Congress in #Barcelona about our work on the hybridising and rapidly evolving spined loaches (Cobitis)🐟🧬

#ESEB2025 #conference #Catalonia #Spain #evolution #fish #loach #sexchromosomes #hybridisation #genomeanalysis
September 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
astridboehne.bsky.social
Join us! Still places left :-) we look forward to meet you with @idarolti.bsky.social and talk about #sexchromosomes
September 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
physaliacourses.bsky.social
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
Sex chromosome evolution
Dates 6-10 October 2025 To foster international participation, this course will be held online
www.physalia-courses.org
September 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
lucija-andjel.bsky.social
My first first-author article is finally here! Happy to share with you a little piece of the puzzle in the evolution of sex chromosomes in chameleons of the genus Furcifer. You can read the full text at academic.oup.com/jhered/advan...

#reptiles #chameleons #evolution #sexchromosomes
Comparison of non-synonymous/synonymous (dN/dS) ratios shows little evidence for a faster-Z effect in Furcifer chameleons after controlling for gene-specific evolutionary rates
Abstract. The faster-X/Z effect hypothesis states that genes linked to X/Z chromosomes should accumulate mutations faster than autosomal genes. Although fa
academic.oup.com
August 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
lucija-andjel.bsky.social
My first poster presentation about the evolution of sex chromosomes in chameleons on the #ESEB Congress in Prague 2022 🤓🦎🧬

#eseb2022 #phd #phdstudent #conference #science #biology #evolution #sexchromosomes #chameleons #reptiles #prague #praha #czechrepublic
August 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
thomaslenormand.bsky.social
Interested to know more about a new theory relating the #evolution of #sexchromosomes to the rules of #speciation? Check out this paper that we published with Denis Roze in the last issue of #Science. PDF here: www.science.org/stoken/autho...
A single theory for the evolution of sex chromosomes and the two rules of speciation
Sex chromosomes are involved in three major empirical patterns: (i) Y (or W) chromosomes are often nonrecombining and degenerate; (ii) heterogametic offspring (XY or ZW) from interspecific crosses are...
www.science.org
July 12, 2025 at 9:04 PM
wenjuanma84.bsky.social
🐸🧬Lab new preprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social👇

Gene duplication, translocation & molecular evolution of Dmrt1 and related sex-determining genes in anurans
➡️ doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Dive into #MasterSexDetermining genes evolution & sex chr. turnover in 🐸✨

Comments welcome!

#SexChromosomes
June 17, 2025 at 10:55 PM
wenjuanma84.bsky.social
🚨Fully-funded #PhD opportunity in #EvoBio at
@vubrussel.bsky.social

🧬 Genetics, evolution of frog #SexChromosomes across Eurasia & the Caribbean
🌍 Fieldwork + teaching in 🇧🇪
📢 Dutch fluency required

Apply👉: jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-D...

ERC-lab: www.wmalab.com

#PhDposition @phdvoice.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 12:37 AM
molbioevol.bsky.social
Okuno et al. assemble male genomes of three spiny rat species, tracing Y chromosome loss and gene translocation. Authors show that segmental duplications and rearrangements enabled preservation of Y-linked genes on the X.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf102

#molbio #evobio #sexchromosomes
May 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
joeymaier.bsky.social
🐋 #whales

Researcher Carla Crossman was doing genetic analysis of skin samples from #rightwhales, and found that one individual had #XXY #sexchromosomes

I think this is really cool, and don't know why more people aren't talking about it
joeymaier.bsky.social joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · Apr 10
Further coverage, this time from @iflscience.com, of the discovery of a southern right whale with XXY sex chromosomes.

If you read to the end of this quote thread, you'll see that I started with a link to the journal article about Carla's discovery.

www.iflscience.com/first-ever-i...
April 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
jevbio.bsky.social
#Sexchromosomes evolve rapidly in old #cichlid lineages and one chromosome appears several times but with different degrees of sex-association

@astridboehne.bsky.social @leibnizlib.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
Investigation of sex determination in African cichlids reveals lack of fixed sex chromosomes in wild populations
Abstract. Sex chromosomes are theorized to stop recombining and become fixed, yet many taxa show ambiguous genomic signals of sex consistent with either co
doi.org
March 6, 2025 at 10:27 AM
cbenvenuto.bsky.social
Sex chromosomes never disappoint! Amazing work by @shrewgod.bsky.social @ruthfcarden.bsky.social and collaborators on the importance of #SexChromosomes for reconstructing past demographic events! Wow!!!🦌
shrewgod.bsky.social Allan McDevitt @shrewgod.bsky.social · Mar 3
A whopping 144 red deer genomes from across their range shows how markers with different modes of inheritance (e.g. the sex chromosomes) capture different signals from isolation in glacial refugia. The X chromosome is a useful marker in this context! academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
Red Deer Resequencing Reveals the Importance of Sex Chromosomes for Reconstructing Late Quaternary Events
Abstract. Sex chromosomes differ in their inheritance properties from autosomes and hence may encode complementary information about past demographic event
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March 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
andreamrnjavac.bsky.social
#sexchromosomes #evolution #sheltering
February 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
juliecocquet.bsky.social
Super happy to see our latest work on the opposite effects of DOT1L on gene expression published !
#chromatin #DOT1L #sexchromosomes #malegermcells

www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Chromatin environment-dependent effects of DOT1L on gene expression in male germ cells - Communications Biology
Epigenomic and transcriptomic analyses reveal that, during mouse spermatogenesis, the H3K79 methyltransferase DOT1L has opposite effects on autosomal and X-linked gene expression depending on local ch...
www.nature.com
January 29, 2025 at 8:29 AM
shellshocked6.bsky.social
Genotypes and gene markers. Did you pay attention in biology class?
#genetics #genes #genotypes #sexchromosomes #genemarker #sry
January 25, 2025 at 12:44 AM