Postdoc - computational, evolutionary and conservation genomics @ the Globe Institute (University of Copenhagen) - 🦜👨🏻💻🧬
One lives only to make blunders.
Audald Lloret-Villas
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New study 🧬 Inbreeding depression is a concern in small populations, and evaluating its genomic proxies is important for #ConservationGenomics. In hihi, genome-wide homozygosity best predicts lifetime reproductive success, compared to genetic load and FROH.
Publication: doi.org/10.1111/eva....
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Population declines result in increasingly small populations, which often experience an increase in inbreeding. Inbreeding may be negatively associated with fitness traits like survival and reproduct...
A couple of (belted?) Galloway cows enjoying the first spring days in Utterslev Mose, the outskirts of Copenhagen.
Some botanical gardens happen to use poison dart frogs to keep insect plagues under control. Interestingly, such frogs are not poisonous in captivity, as they lack the alkaloids they would naturally get from their diet.
This is a blurry Epipedobates anthonyi in the Botanisk Have in Copenhagen.
Great write up of our study showing that both extrinsic factors (e.g. habitat availability) and intrinsic traits (e.g. body mass and diet) play important roles in shaping patterns of genomic diversity in birds 🦜 🧬 🌏
#consgen #popgen
Hui Zhen Tan
Just around the corner.
Last few days to sign up for the free workshop on relatedness with @jolijnerven.bsky.social!
New story on the Avian Hybrids blog!
Phylogenomic analyses reveal an X-linked speciation supergene in placental mammals
avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/p...
Based on the Nature paper by Nicole Foley and her colleagues | Focusing on mammals, with a bit of #ornithology
Audald Lloret-Villas
Audald Lloret-Villas
📣 New paper out in ProcB📣
... and we're on the cover! (Perks of having a beautiful study species)
Find it here:
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Anna Brüniche-Olsen
Abstract. Despite its detrimental effects, inbreeding depression in wild populations is relatively under-explored. Here, we use whole-genome sequence data
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@rsbiello.bsky.social et al. present the first whole-genome analysis of Mediterranean fin whales, showing that although these form a distinct genetic cluster, they are not fully isolated from North Atlantic populations.
📷 Danny Kessler
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag084
#genome #evolution #popgen
Anna Hewett
AaRC
New story on the Avian Hybrids blog!
What factors shape genomic diversity in birds?
avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2026/03/04/w...
Based on the Proceedings B paper by Anna Brüniche-Olsen, Kenneth Kellner and their colleagues | #ornithology
Wanna learn how to explore your genomic data to know how related your samples and populations are to each other? Come and join us and @jolijnerven.bsky.social on our next #AaRCademy workshop! April 16h at 14:00 CET!
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