🏔️ 🌱 Postdoc @Uni Lausanne
Interested in limits to evolution, evolutionary quant gen | PhD@UniversitätBasel
First real post on the new blog!
If you follow human genetics, you've likely of "missing heritability". If you look at twins to estimate heritability, you get values much larger than what molecular genomic methods produce. IQ, for example, goes from 50-80% heritability to 10-15%. Which is right?
Two Book Reviews this issue:
"The long and difficult history of the path between Darwinism and Lamarckism" by Günter P Wagner
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"Evolution of adaptation’s evil Doppelgänger" by Erik I Svensson
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It was fun to work on this meta-analysis of resurrection studies involving plants with Lillie Pennington, Steven Franks, Jill Anderson, and @elenahamann.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
One of my dream projects, ever since joining here in Basel, out now in @nature.com :
single-cells 🤝 eco-morphological proxies
rdcu.be/fiyso
How cells and tissues adapt to dietary niches...
Thanks and congrats to Antoine, Walter, and all the other co-authors for this great collaboration!! 🙏🥳
Why do species' ranges stop where they do? New theory shows that matching habitat choice can sharpen range boundaries and reinforce limits imposed by competition academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
By Shirani and @benjaminfreeman.bsky.social
"Sexually antagonistic selection: a review of the theory and its implications" doi.org/10.32942/X28M22
Ever since the articulation of a coherent theory of evolution, alternatives to the Darwinian narrative have been proposed. The most widely known, perhaps,
This is awful to hear, describing how Sean Eddy (HMMER, infernal, pfam, rfam) has been defunded. The letter said his work
"had been determined to be of absolutely no value to the US taxpayer, and therefore it was being specifically terminated,"
www.npr.org/2026/05/21/n...
📣 New paper out in ProcB📣
... and we're on the cover! (Perks of having a beautiful study species)
Find it here:
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Excited to share our new paper in which we test how competition alters adaptation at a warming range edge @science.org
We find that competition can increase adaptation to warming when there is a shared evolutionary response to both biotic and abiotic drivers of selection:
tinyurl.com/3j8s9t8b
Premise Global climate change has altered the eco-evolutionary trajectories of plant species, leading to observed shifts in phenotypes, such as earlier flowering. However, disentangling the contribu...
Nature - Single-cell transcriptomics combined with morphological and ecological data show that the rapid evolutionary radiation of cichlid fishes in Lake Tanganyika was accompanied by dietary...
Excited to share our global collaborative project: “Ontogenetic Thermal Fertility Limits” 🌍🔥🦋🪰🪲🪳🐞
We’re bringing together researchers to understand how temperature affects fertility across life stages in a warming world.
Explore the project & get involved: www.thermalecologyalliance.org/projects
Abstract. Existing theory examining the coevolutionary dynamics of species’ range borders assumes random dispersal, which causes maladaptive gene flow from
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Evolution
Seema Sheth
Tschopp Lab
Even with federal grants largely restored, scientists say the Trump administration is still preventing those funds from reaching them. The consequences, they say, are already becoming clear.
Abstract. Despite its detrimental effects, inbreeding depression in wild populations is relatively under-explored. Here, we use whole-genome sequence data
Most predictions of whether populations will adapt to warming range edges ignore species interactions. We experimentally tested whether range-edge populations can adapt to warming within a competitive...
