Kiwi π³πΏ Associate professor at the Technical University of Denmark working on modern and ancient genomics from various species.
Mick Westbury
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Now the paper entitled 'Tracing the Drivers of Range-Wide Bowhead Whale Genomic Structure and Diversity' by Westbury et al. has been published in Molecular Ecology. You can find it at: doi.org/10.1111/mec....
Enjoy the reading !!!
#bowheadwhales #marinemammals @mick2474.bsky.social
Lutz Bachmann
π§¬This deer has been cooking for awhile! ππ¦π§βπ³
We generated the first nuclear palaeogenomes for the extinct giant deer Megaloceros - arguably the biggest deer ever with antlers spanning up to ~3.5 m
Including one to ~50x!
Check out the preprint here
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Across the dataset, we found evidence for long-term population decline, low genetic diversity, and an elevated burden of predicted deleterious alleles before extinction.
Check out this great post by @smilodontology.bsky.social on our recent paper using bowhead whale genomics and ecological modelling πππ§¬π§¬
We additionally analysed population-level data from Germany (~40 kya) and Ireland (~11 kya).
The German and Irish individuals were genetically distinct, with the older German individuals showed higher genetic diversity.
This one took many years to get here and wouldn't have been possible without the many coauthors
@mhssinding.bsky.social @emitruc.bsky.social @lovedalen.bsky.social @gingerhowley.bsky.social @patriciachrzan.bsky.social and many others who I do not have on bluesky
