Excited to be part of the amazing team behind our upcoming symposium on Sex Evolution at #SMBE2026!
🔹 Daniel Jeffries
🔹 Paul Jay
🔹 @sphaeromeria.bsky.social
🔹 @astridboehne.bsky.social
🔹 @cbenvenuto.bsky.social
Join us in Copenhagen for cutting-edge discussions on #sex #evolution
What's in a name? 🐙🦑 @ideaspermatheca.bsky.social @treeofsex.bsky.social
For starters, there's not "one weird trick to ditch your X." There are multiple paths to sex determination turnover.
To read more about it, including what genes were gained or lost and how the genome looks in X chromosome scales, check out our preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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🔬 Uncovering the mechanisms of sex chromosome dosage compensation in skinks! 🦎 🧬
Our latest collaborative study on how a lizard species with an extraordinary ability to change sexual phenotype maintains genomic balance.
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rdcu.be/eVjqW
Just one week left to submit your abstract for our symposium on eco-evolutionary dynamics of #sexualselection and #sexualconflict at @ece2026tours.bsky.social ! Join us in beautiful Tours, France, 29 June – 3 July 2026!
SMBE2026 Symposium 9 | New frontiers in sex evolution: evolutionary patterns and innovations
📨 Abstract submission
smbe2026.org/abstracts
📋 Programme details
smbe2026.org/programme
#SMBE2026
🎯Excited to share our new collaborative paper in Mol Ecol - Beautifully lead by @marta-fb.bsky.social & @coreykirkland.bsky.social - Exploring the fascinating evolutionary story of the waterbuck, shaped by climate and unique chromosome changes
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Organisers
- @aruizherrera.bsky.social | @ibb-uab.bsky.social
- Daniel Jeffries | University of Bern
- Paul Jay | Universite Grenoble Alpes
- @sphaeromeria.bsky.social | @ibb-botanic.bsky.social
- @astridboehne.bsky.social | @leibnizlib.bsky.social
- @cbenvenuto.bsky.social | @salforduni.bsky.social
I've written about this reproductive system, the mix of males and hermaphrodites without pure females (called androdioecy) before, here:
academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...
