Happy to share this release of some new long-read genomes in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social! We hope that subspecies-specific, quality genomes will enable better profiling of variation underlying phenotypic differences in Heliconius, mitigating bias from using a relative's genome as the reference 1/3

Genome Biology and Evolution@genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 5d ago

@a-mack-s.bsky.social @evolvwing.bsky.social et al. generate deep-coverage PacBio long-read data from five Heliconius, recovering high genome contiguity, quality, and completeness scores. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag171 #societyjournal #genome

#SMBE2026 S03: Genome Plasticity and Evolutionary Innovation 🗓️ Tue Jun 30, 10:20 am - Part 1 🗓️ Tue Jun 30, 1:20 pm - Part 2 🔗 smbe2026.org/programme

🥳 Super excited to see this work out from the urchin side of the Wray lab team! ⬇️

Alejandro Berrio Escobar@urchinpapi.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It takes two to tango but gastrulation is a contra dance Cells move through changing partners and signals, and many Wnts act together to keep the choreography coordinated in space and time. That’s the core idea behind our new paper on gut formation in #seaurchins 🧵

Join the SEPEEG meeting on Oct 3-5 in the Great Smoky Mountains to explore ecology, evolution, and genetics. It’s student-friendly! More info: https://sepeeg2025.blogspot.com/ #conference

🌟 paper tweetorial! 🌟 check out my first first-author paper from my Ph.D! We wrote a small (=easy-to-read) Perspective piece trying to bridge the gap between #evolutionarybiology and the expanding world of #genomic assays, specifically #chromatin conformation capture (3C and related approaches) 🧵1/7

Genome Biology and Evolution@genomebiolevol.bsky.social · last yr.

As 3D genome tools become more accessible, studying three-dimensional genome architecture in non-model organisms offers powerful ways to integrate evolution and gene regulation. Read more in this new Perspective by @a-mack-s.bsky.social & Wray. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf113 #genome #evolution

🦋 Happening today at #BoG25: Are you interested in unusual patterns of recombination in the context of ongoing hybridization?? If you answered yes OR no to this question, come by poster 187 tonight! Learn something, or teach me something! 🦋

Ava Mackay-Smith@a-mack-s.bsky.social · last yr.

🦋 If you're 1) coming to #BoG25 (!!!) and 2) like thinking about weird patterns of recombination or population genetics, come say hi & stop by my poster "Exploring hybridization persistence: Gene regulatory dynamics and sex-specific recombination landscapes in Lepidoptera" 🦋

🦋 If you're 1) coming to #BoG25 (!!!) and 2) like thinking about weird patterns of recombination or population genetics, come say hi & stop by my poster "Exploring hybridization persistence: Gene regulatory dynamics and sex-specific recombination landscapes in Lepidoptera" 🦋