PhD student in evolutionary genetics. University of Lausanne
Alexandros Topaloudis
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day 2 #InverteFest #invertebrate weird fact:
there are some ants with only a single chromosome, while some butterflies shred their genome into multiple "microchromosomes" π§¬ππ¦
Truly grateful to everyone who helped make this into the publication it is. Special thanks to Tristan and Eleonore with which we worked so hard to put together this reference panel and lcWGS dataset, and Jerome who trusted us to.
π¨π!!! Check out our new paper where we investigate the impact of a soil level (SoilTemp) dataset on niche shifts of introduced ant species globally β using soil temperatures often lessens the extent of niche shifts between native and introduced ranges! π π onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Pre-print now out on bioRxiv! If you saw my talk at #eseb and want more info, here it is:
Our new @science.org paper is out! Cuckoos and hosts are locked in a coevolutionary arms race over egg mimicry.
But how are these egg types inherited, and could this drive speciation? We sequenced hundreds of genomes to find out!
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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Interested in working on the evolution of genetic architecture 𧬠of complex traits using linked-read sequencing of thousands of common lizards π¦ from a wild population and common garden experiment?
#evolution #genetics
Well, I have a PhD offer for you π
devillemereuil.legtux.org/erc-funded-p...
I'm excited to share that our preprint is now available on bioRxiv! Our study challenges the widespread use of molecular genetic diversity as a predictor adaptive potential, with important implications for how genetic data is used to inform conservation decisions.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
PhD fellowship available π’!
We are offering a 3-year fully funded PhD fellowship at the interface between functional ecology and quantitative genetics in Montpellier FR ! (Application deadline 31 July)
Host-parasite arms races facilitate rapid evolution and can fuel speciation. Cuculus cuckoos are deceptive egg mimics that exhibit a broad diversity of counterfeit egg phenotypes, representing host-ad...
The May issue of MBE is here, featuring the work of @topalwos.bsky.social et al., who evaluated genotype imputation accuracy in a large barn owl low-coverage WGS dataset.
π academic.oup.com/mbe/issue/43/5
π· Alex Labhardt
#evobio #molbio
A capacity to adapt is essential for a population to avoid extinction in a changing world and is recognised as a global conservation priority. Adaptation requires additive (heritable) genetic variatio...
Are you looking to sequence a bunch of samples from a wild population in low-coverage but don't have a reference panel?
You might be surprised how well it can work.
See for yourself in our new benchmark study:
doi.org/10.1093/molb...
Alexandros Topaloudis
Petra KorleviΔ
Anna Hewett
Olivia Bates
Justin Merondun
Pierre de Villemereuil
Katie Abson
Germain Montazeaud
Abstract. Whole genome sequencing (WGS) of a large number of samples is costly. Solutions include targeting a proportion of the genome (eg SNP arrays) or l
