High quality genomes for sloths and anteaters and great mammalian biology findings alert! 🦥🧬 @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @ebpgenome.bsky.social @vertebrategenomes.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Background Xenarthrans, comprising sloths, anteaters, and armadillos, represent one of the most morphologically and physiologically specialized mammalian clades, yet the genomic basis of their adaptat...link.springer.com
Margres et al. investigated snake venom expression divergence in island-mainland rattlesnakes, showing that rapid adaptation in the island population occurred through the co-option and truncation of the ontogenetic venom shift.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag131
📷 Michael P. Hogan
#genome #evolution
Genome Biology and Evolution
📖 Published📖
SOUPE: An R package to test and optimise the phylogenetic and ecological representativeness of a taxonomic sample 🧪 🌍 🖥️
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ERGA Plenary coming up! 🌍 This month we’ll spotlight two new ERGA projects starting this year: BGE+ with Robert Waterhouse, and the COST Action CONSENSA with Chiara Bortoluzzi & Fabrizio Ghiselli. Join us to hear what’s next for the ERGA community!
#ERGA #Genomics
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This work wouldn't have been possible without an amazing team. Huge thanks to all coauthors, including @peterszovenyi.bsky.social, @annmccartney.bsky.social, @svardalevo.bsky.social, and to @ergabiodiv.bsky.social for making large-scale genomic collaboration across 9 countries a reality.
ERGA - European Reference Genome Atlas
Giacomo Potente
Methods in Ecology and Evolution
More than 20 years ago I was here for my #Erasmus exchange programme, just starting out on a journey with no idea about the directions it would take me, thanks @duret-lbbe.bsky.social for supervising me back then, long before the roof of Mendel building blew off! Was great to revisit today!
#BFSP workshop in Lyon @elixir-europe.org
Emerging from the Disentis Roadmap; a community vision endorsed by over 100 contributors, we propose the #Biodiversity Libroscope: a community-driven framework to systematically unlock, FAIR-enable, and disseminate data from published sources zenodo.org/records/2067...
Jialin Wei: very nice results on convergence of genome evolution with terrestrialisation in animal evolution #EED2026
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09722-4
Comparisons of 154 genomes from 21 animal phyla and outgroups have been used to reconstruct ancestral adaptation to life on land across 11 distinct terrestrialization events, revealing strong evidence for convergent genomic evolution across the animal kingdom and recurring periods of terrestrial colonization.
Rob Waterhouse
Rob Waterhouse
Rob Waterhouse
Presenting #BioDiv-FAIR-Checker at @elixir-europe.org #Biodiversity Food Security & Pathogens workshop - a really full room, had to steal extra chairs from next door!
