New paper out! 🐟 We show that premating barriers are asymetrical between Arctic charr morph despite little gene flow, suggesting that hybrid unviability may evolve very early during speciation
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Quentin Horta
It is out, it is out! Our study on neural crest cells and micro to macroevolution in lizard skull 🦎
Our fieldwork on wall lizards featured in Normandy's newspaper La Manche Libre 🦎🥳
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Our work as Editor's choice in @evolletters.bsky.social !✨️
Developmental biases & micro- to macroevution in the lizard skull 🦎
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Quentin Horta
Quentin Horta
🧪 New paper out! Growing up, wall lizards undergo a UV-visible “awkward phase” (who doesn’t?) that we can’t see—but they can. These ontogenetic color changes may mediate juvenile–adult interactions by delaying the onset of adult social signals. doi.org/10.1002/jez.... #colsci #lizard #ontogeny
Quentin Horta
🚨 We're hiring!
Fully funded Postdoc(s) in Systems Biology at Stockholm University & SciLifeLab — focus on predictive modeling in evolution and development.
📍 Stockholm
🕒 2+1 years
🔍 Details: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Wall lizards' ventral coloration undergoes cryptic ontogenetic color changes invisible without UV vision. We tracked wall lizards from hatching to one year of age. Spectrophotometry and visual modeli...
The Department of Zoology is one of the departments within the Faculty of Science and has approximately 80 employees including researchers, PhD students, and administrative staff. Research and educati
Recently published #AmniotaLabCollab!
How does development shape evolution? Using 3D skull data, this study shows that neural crest cells drive rapid skull changes within species of lizards.
Javier Abalos
Lisandro Milocco
Check out the gorgeous cover of our new issue! In the cover article @quentinevo.bsky.social and colleagues show that pleiotropy in neural crest cells can generate contrasting patterns of skull evolution, enabling rapid evolution of a syndrome. doi.org/10.1093/evle... Image credit Q Horta-Lacueva
Amniota Lab
Evolution Letters
We are looking for a postdoc to join our group to work on an ERC funded project on avian reproductive microbiomes. nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...
Please RT! #microbes #microbiomes #sparrows #postdoc
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our team working on avian reproductive microbiomes at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) in the group of Dr. Melissah Rowe. The postd...
How does development shape skull evolution? In lizards, neural crest–derived skull bones drive rapid sexually selected shape change within species but show long-term constraint, revealing developmental bias linking micro- and macroevolution. Image Credit: Wikimedia
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