The new OrthoFinder paper is out now!
In this new work, we introduce major advances in accuracy and scalability, allowing analysis on much larger datasets
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The updated OrthoFinder v3 software boosts accuracy and scalability in phylogenetic orthology inference with massive and diverse datasets.
How do alternative reproductive modes arise?
In this @pnas.org paper, we show that hybridogenesis -where a haploid set of chromosomes is transmitted clonally across generations- acted as an intermediate step between sexual and asexual reproduction in stick insects.
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Comparative transcriptomics reveals an extracellular worm Argonaute as an ancestral regulator of LTR retrotransposons
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Laurie Belcher
How predictable is evolution? Replicated C. elegans experiments show environmental differences and population bottlenecks jointly shape the repeatability of adaptation doi.org/10.1093/evle... Image credit: Wikimedia
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Put simply: It coordinates action in more varied and context-dependent ways across more complex environments, AND it regulates a more complex internal environment.
Highly recommend this chapter from Sterling and Laughlin!
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Abstract. Safeguarding the genome from non-self elements is essential for development, reproduction, and ageing. One of the major threats to genomic integr
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Brault et al. propose guidelines for standardized Ï estimation, systematic reporting of summary statistics, and the adoption of richer metadata to ensure that population genomic data remain comparable and reusable across a wide range of systems.
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#genome #evolution
Why are leaves the shape that they are? What controls intraspecific, genetic variation in leaf shape?
New from my lab, in collaboration with many others, led by PhD student Amanda Peake: mapping the leaf shape polymorphism in Ipomoea hederacea.
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𧚠New publication out (I think this one is đ¶ïž ):
Cerca & @stelkens.bsky.social - "The identity crisis of speciation genomics".
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In Principles of Neural Design (2015, MIT Press), inspired by Charles Darwin, Sterling and Laughlin undertook the unfashionable task of distilling principles from facts in the technique-driven, data-s...
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Actually, what is a gain-of-function mutation?
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Genome Biology and Evolution
Jordan Theriault
Our paper unpacking "fitness" is out doi.org/10.1093/gene.... How to define fitness depends on what question you ask. Selection acts on organismal vital rates, longer-term outcomes make sense for genetic lineages, models link them. "Invasion fitness" = speed, but sometimes probability matters more.
John Stinchcombe
Abstract. For more than a century, scientists have worked to characterize, understand, and predict the consequences of mutations. For almost as long, sciendoi.org
Abstract. Evolutionary âfitnessâ is operationalized in many different ways in models. Its role is to quantify that which is favored by natural selection. G
