🌾🧬 Super pangenomes capture hidden diversity from wild and cultivated genomes. They reveal structural variants and rare alleles for stress adaptation. A powerful tool for stress smart, high yielding crops. #plantscience @springer.springernature.com www.nature.com/articles/s44...
This is one of my favorite pieces of footage from space. Remember the early Macs had a motorized floppy drive that would eject the disk?
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npj Science of Plants - From the genome to super-pangenome: a new paradigm for accelerated crop improvement
Happy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life.
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David Ho
A few summers ago, we individually reared 1200 wood tiger moth caterpillars with the aim to understand the associations and genetic basis of different traits; colour, chemical defences, behaviour, pheromones and more. The results are here!
Jeremy Wang developed rammap, a minimap2 rewrite in Rust. It achieves comparable or better performance than minimap2 and produces identical output to minimap2. During rewrite, Jeremy found two long-existing bugs in minimap2 which are fixed in v2.31. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Applications are now open for the Workshop on Genomics 2026 (11-24 Jan) in Cesky Krumlov, Czechia. For the first time, we are offering Early Bird Registration discounts! 🐣 Do not miss the chance! 🤩 Help us spread the word among friends and colleagues! 🙆🏽♀️ #evomics2026
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Latest paper lead by Asia Hoile with @peterhox.bsky.social is out! 🦋
Nymphalid butterflies have reduced forelegs. Gene expression patterns show support for more palp-like genes involved in sensory processes in the forelegs relative to the walking legs.
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Polymorphisms are fun to study, here is a butterfly one. Negative freq.dependence works to maintain things but where does it come from? Temporal variation works but not always! @koraklein.bsky.social and @chriswheat.bsky.social looked into this in detail.
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Philos. Trans. R. Soc. B. issue on negative frequency-dependent selection (NFDS) is out! royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...
So excited to read the articles in here!
Plant phenology tends to track with climate warming, but it could also be sensitive to biotic factors. This study shows that a single year of tree responses to intense insect herbivory can counteract a decade of environmentally driven shifts in spring phenology 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Arnau Sebé-Pedrós
Transcriptome analysis reveals that the small non-walking front legs of a butterfly have distinct gene expression to the four walking legs. Reduced front legs express a gene with putative mechanosen...
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Abstract. Many species of Colias butterflies show a female-limited colour polymorphism where the dominant Alba allele leads to white wings, faster developm
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Plant phenology tends to track with climate warming, but it could also be sensitive to biotic factors. This study from a temperate forest landscape in Germany shows that a single year of tree response...
