PAPER ALERT! Tuovinen Nogerius et al. describe Semicentenialea rex (Clade establishing a new class: Semicentenialomycetes (Basidiomycota). 🔗 imafungus.pensoft.net/article/1898... #Mycology #Fungi #Biodiversity #eDNA”

Another dark taxon comes to light: Semicentenialomycetes, a new class within the Pucciniomycotina (Basidiomycota), and its first described representative, Semicentenialea rex

Only a small fraction of the global fungal diversity is described, and a large number of fungal sequences from environmental DNA (eDNA) lack relevant reference sequences for taxonomic identification i...

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Recruiting a PhD student on the evolution of mating behavior in water striders using deep learning behavioral tracking and brain transcriptomics. Looking for a curious, computationally strong candidate. Fully funded, 4 yr, Uppsala University. @corrallopeza.bsky.social uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

PhD student in evolutionary genomics and behavioral ecology

PhD student in evolutionary genomics and behavioral ecology The Department of Ecology and Genetics is an international environment with staff and students from all over the world. Our research spans f

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PAPER ALERT! How do organisms time reproduction? Can #epigenetic mechanisms play a role in this regard? Find out more here: academic.oup.com/eep/article/...

PREPRINT ALERT! No preference for performance: Host plant preference, offspring performance and host plant distribution in the butterfly Aricia artaxerxes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #Ecology #Evolution #HostPlantPreference #Butterflies #BehaviouralEcology #PlantInsectInteractions #Lepidoptera

PREPRINT ALERT! Determinants of chromosomal rearrangements in holocentric Leptidea butterflies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Massive #chromosome reshuffling in Leptidea #butterflies reveals how satellite DNA, rDNA, and duplications—not #transposons, shape the architecture of #genomeevolution.

#NewPaper @molecularecolup.bsky.social Resource Availability Modulates Gene Expression Across Life Stages in a Migratory Butterfly READ PAPER HERE! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Genomics #Migration #Butterflies #Ecology #ScienceBluesky

#NewPaper @molecularecolup.bsky.social An Equatorial Hemispheric Barrier Shapes theDiversification of Migratory Belenois Butterflies READ PAPER HERE! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #Evolution #Biogeography #Butterflies #Ecology #ScienceBluesky

New paper out published in @currentbiology.bsky.social ! Reveals the hidden, but prevalent, presence of a black-fungus in Umbilicaria lichens! Read the paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Lichenology #Mycology #Symbiosis #Ecology #NewPaper #ScienceBluesky #ResearchFediverse

New publications from Immonen Lab 1.Sex-Biased Gene Expression Under Sexually Antagonistic and Sex-Limited Selection academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... 2.The effects of sexual selection on functional and molecular reproductive divergence academic.oup.com/evlett/advan... #evolution #selection

Sex-Biased Gene Expression Under Sexually Antagonistic and Sex-Limited Selection

Abstract. Sex differences in gene expression are ubiquitous, evolve quickly, and are expected to underlie phenotypic sexual dimorphism (SD). Despite long-s

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Can #lichen forming fungi live without their #photobionts? Recent work brings evidence in this regard. Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Congrats toAnders Dalhberg, Silvia Pioli, Mari Jönsson, Florian Barbi, Göran Thor, @veera-t-nogerius.bsky.social!

Detailed analysis of fungal communities in Norway spruce logs reveals stochastic fine-scale patterns of species and detects lichen forming fungi without their photobionts

Fungal ecologists have long been intrigued by the mechanisms behind the high fungal species richness in dead wood at small and large spatial scales. W…

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New research article investigates the role of #fungal communities in treeline expansion under global warming, finding that fewer #ectomycorrhizal fungi in alpine soils may limit the establishment of #Betula pubescens seedlings above the treeline. With Eivind Ronold, @drhyfe.bsky.social & Ella Thoen

Elevational range expansion of Betula pubescens may be slowed by lack of suitable mycorrhizal symbionts in alpine soils

The elevational limit for trees is increasing worldwide due to global warming. The elevational range expansion of obligate ectomycorrhizal trees, such…

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Paper Alert @newphyt.bsky.social ! The diversity of #Archaeorhizomycetes the class of fungi commonly present in soil but little understood is finally revealed using long and short-read amplicons. Read more here nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.....

Short‐ and long‐read metabarcoding of Archaeorhizomycetes reveals high phylogenetic diversity structured by vegetation and climate

Archaeorhizomycetes is a class of globally widespread soil-dwelling fungi, originally proposed to be associated with plant roots, but their ecology and nutritional mode are not clearly defined. To i...

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Could a slab of ancient Australian rock rewrite everything we thought we knew about the origin of land-dwelling vertebrates? @perahlberg.bsky.social , @evobiouppsala.bsky.social @uuvertpalaeo.bsky.social , discusses: faculti.net/earliest-amn... #natural sciences

Featured researchers: • @jhog.bsky.social (SciLifeLab/ @uu.se ‬/ @animecol-uu.bsky.social researcher) • Niclas Backström, (@uu.se‬ / @evobiouppsala.bsky.social) Watch ↓ 🌍🧪🧬 www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bNT... #EvoSKy #EvoBio #Conservation #BioDiversity #BiodiversityCrisis @ergabiodiv.bsky.social

Genetics vs. Extinction: The Clouded Apollo Butterfly Genome

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New paper by @aleixpalahi.bsky.social et al in #molecularecology. They unravelled the history behind the establishment of multiple disjunct distributions in Vanessa butterflies, highlighting the importance of long-distance dispersal and introgression in the process. shorturl.at/UFrrU

PAPER ALERT! @jesperboman.bsky.social et al just published @journal-evo.bsky.social. Their work 'On the origin of an insular hybrid butterfly lineage'. They came up with a #novel #method based on historical #recombination events (Fisher junctions) to understand this hybridisation event.

Jesper Boman@jesperboman.bsky.social · last yr.

I feel honored that our work: "On the origin of an insular hybrid butterfly lineage" was picked as "Editor's choice" and that my picture of a mating couple (🧡🤎) covers the latest issue of Evolution @journal-evo.bsky.social. Link to paper: academic.oup.com/evolut/artic... (1/8)

PAPER ALERT! Painted lady #Butterflies (Vanessa cardui) can fly long! They can even cross the ocean! Congrats for this great work @megansreich.bsky.social et al. ! @pnasnexus.org

PNAS Nexus@pnasnexus.org · last yr.

Painted lady butterflies that migrate from Europe to the Mediterranean are not genetically distinct from those that migrate from Europe to West Africa. Instead, environmental cues likely determine migration distance. In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Paper alert! @JesperBoman et al bring empirical evidence for the idea that #chromosome number differences between taxa can contribute to #speciation! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Paper alert! More evidence that sex-specific dominance of regulatory variants contributes to the maintenance of genetic variation in fitness mediated by sexually antagonistic selection in Seed Beetles! academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Paper alert! A #lichen is more than meets the eye!

Complexity of the lichen symbiosis revealed by metagenome and transcriptome analysis of Xanthoria parietina

Lichens are symbiotic associations of fungi, algae, and bacteria that result in large, self-assembling organisms. Tagirdzhanova et al. use metagenomics to profile taxonomic diversity within the sunbur...

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Ioana Brännström@ioanabrannstrom.bsky.social · 2y ago

From 1 fungus + 1 algae ....to >150 organisms living in #lichens! Congratulations @metalichen et al. ! Thank you for including me in this study! www.cell.com/current-biol...

The The Birgitta Sintring Foundation at Uppsala University Sweden offers attractive postdoc grants! www.uu.se/en/departmen...

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Ioana Brännström@ioanabrannstrom.bsky.social · 2y ago

Are you interested in joining my group as a #postdoc to explore the diversity of #lichen #photobionts, conduct comparative #genomics, or infer the population structure of symbionts? The Birgitta Sintring Foundation's postdoc stipend call is now open at my department. PM for more information!

Come and join us @UU_University Sweden! PostDoc in Evolutionary/Conservation Genomics on Clouded Apollo butterfly 🦋 in @niclasbackstromgroup #Popgen #conservation #butterfly More details here 👇 uu.se/en/departmen...

Last week we celebrated the beginning of Christmas holiday with a #curling match!

JOB ALERT! A fully funded PhD opportunity awaits at Uppsala University, Sweden, focusing on the evolution and biology of lichen photobionts. The position will involved field work, molecular lab work and data analyses (from meta-omics to pop genetics). #PhDposition www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...