Postdoc at the University of Lausanne. Evolution of stick insect traits 🌿 Macroevolution 🐜 Behavioral ecology 🍃 Biomechanics ⚙️ Transcriptomics 🧬
Romain Boisseau
If you are @eseb2025.bsky.social and like cool bugs and convergent evolution, come listen to my story of why some stick insects evolved strikingly similar morphologies while others did not. Lots of pictures of truly stunning animals 🍃🥸
This Friday, 11:15am
S24, room 129+130
#ESEB2025
#ESEB25 2 for 1!
Come to see my posters, spot 260, today if you'd like to chat about :
how gender identities play a role in the type of species interactions people study (⚔️or 🤝?)
or if you want to learn more about the weapon evolution of the great rhinoceros beetles ⚔️🦏
Very fun day talking about gamete evolution and showing live stick insects and their eggs to high school teachers 👩🏫
Our findings further show that the similarity of environmental conditions experienced by the organisms (temperature, precipitation, seasonality, predator diversity...) and the relatedness between the convergent lineages, both predict the strength of morphological convergence.
We show that stick insect lineages colonizing similar habitats in different corners of the world repeatedly evolved the same ecomorphs. Only the "wide leaf mimics" evolved only once in the well-named leaf insect group (Phyllidae).
Romain Boisseau
Camille Thomas-Bulle
🚨New paper out🚨 Very excited about this one as it showcases the evolution of the extraordinary morphological diversity of stick insects 🌿➡️ @pnas.org
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Romain Boisseau
Romain Boisseau
Romain Boisseau
Romain Boisseau
📸 Immersion dans les #recherches de l'équipe de Tanja Schwander @dee-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social, spécialiste des modes de #reproduction inhabituels chez les animaux, notamment les #phasmes, ces as du camouflage!
🔗 www.unil.ch/news/fr/1774...
Le 19 mars dernier, l’équipe de la professeure Tanja Schwander, spécialiste des modes de reproduction inhabituels chez les animaux, a ouvert les portes de ses labos à des enseignant·es de biologie à l...
