Zoologist and evolutionary biologist. Interested in animal phylogeny. At UCL.
Author of 'The Tree of Life: Solving Science's Greatest Puzzle'
Max Telford
Anyone else praying that SpaceX tanks?
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Another rainy day and I’m curled up on the couch, thoroughly inspired by David George Haskell’s descriptions of how flowers transformed our planet, sustain us and connect us with nature in his latest delightful book.
@dghaskell.bsky.social
1/ Our new paper in Systematic Biology "Modeling Site-and-Branch-Heterogeneity with GFmix" led by @cgpmcc.bsky.social describes improved ways to model compositional heterogeneity across both sites and branches—an important source of error in deep phylogenomics.
doi.org/10.1093/sysb...
This looks great! What a beautifully written abstract!!
Domènech et al. (2026-05, Biology Letters)
「複数の再標本化されたゲノムマトリックスは，クモガタ類の単系統性について一貫しない支持を示す」
Multiple resampled genomic matrices provide mixed support for arachnid monophyly
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
MASSIVE parade for Arsenal.
More Dorset loveliness. Just down the road from Bockhampton where Thomas Hardy grew up and Stinsford where his heart is buried.
Abstract. Phylogenetic trees are often inferred from protein sequences sampled from diverse taxa across the tree of life. The compositions of these amino a
Capolavoro 🎨 alert 🚨! What is the role of gene body methylation in invertebrates? Despite extensive speculation linking it to plasticity and environmental responses, its mechanistic effects and heritability remain unclear. Our take out in @natecoevo.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/
Experiments in the cnidarian Nematostella vectensis show a role of gene body methylation in transposable element suppression and that epigenetic inheritance is constrained by chromatin context and tra...
