@eksramos.bsky.social et al. reveal that the marine transition in turtles is characterized by rapid evolution and expansion of genes linked to iron metabolism, organ morphogenesis, sensory perception, mirroring other secondarily marine tetrapods. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag114 #evobio #molbio

The genomic basis of independent marine transitions in turtles: convergent episodic adaptation and demographic shifts

Abstract. The transition from terrestrial to marine environments represents one of the most fundamental evolutionary shifts in vertebrate history, requirin

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Happy to announce the release of TOGA2 data for 68 turtle genomes, generated with a cryptodiran and a pleurodiran turtle reference. The combined TOGA2 annotation consistently improves annotation completeness compared with RefSeq. All data at genome.senckenberg.de/download/TOGA2. Genome browsers ...

⏰⏰⏰ 6 days more to apply!! Don't be shy if you feel like you don't fit all criteria; motivation, curiosity and fun to work with, are the most important traits that we are looking for! ⏰⏰⏰

Mozes Blom@moosblom.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨 Wanted: PhD student excited about population genomics, Natural History Collections and birds! 📍 Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany 🕒 3 Years, funded by the Leibniz Junior Researchgroup program Details and Application portal 👇 jobs.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/jobposting/d...

I am hiring a PhD student to join our group in Lund, Sweden working on an ERC-funded project to untangle color and polarization vision in some amazing crustaceans – minute water fleas and pugnacious mantis shrimp! Please forward this to promising students. Apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Check out this fantastic #new #genome #ressource for >1000 mammals 🦊 and >850 birds 🐦 🧬

Michael Hiller@hillermich.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We now have genome browsers on our UCSC mirror at genome.senckenberg.de for the 1033 mammal and 866 bird assemblies, showing spliceAi, reference-based and ref-integrated TOGA2 tracks. Tables with links to all browsers are genome.senckenberg.de/TOGA2Mammali... & genome.senckenberg.de/TOGA2Aves.html

When these #eels 🐟were caught, the world still ran on sail and steam. #Darwin was years away from "Origin of Species🐦". #Mendel had not even planted a pea🪴. Today, the same specimens may tell us whether/how eels can adapt to the #Anthropocene🐟🏢.

What a #collection @nhmwien.bsky.social 🤩 #flexibEEL #museomics #eels #evolution #Wien

(1/15) Thrilled to share new Evo-Devo work where we address the molecular, cellular & morphometric basis of an extreme axis segmentation program in the Japanese eel — an animal that forms 120 vertebrae.

Good morning from Vienna☀️! Sampling #historical 100+ year old #eels for the #flexibEEL project in the fantastic #collection of the NHM Wien @nhmwien.bsky.social 🙂🐟 #eels #evolution #museomics

NEW: Global Assessment of Migratory Freshwater Fishes @worldwildlife.org www.worldwildlife.org/publications... “Vital freshwater fish migrations are collapsing; hundreds of species need urgent, coordinated cross-border action” Please share!

I wrote a short Nature Methods News & Views piece on deep learning based gene finders such as ANNEVO. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Learning genes deeply - Nature Methods

Annevo uses deep learning to achieve unprecedented accuracy in eukaryotic gene annotation, approaching the performance of evidence-based methods.

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I hear you want novelty🦎->🐢, chromosome evolution 🧬, sex determination🩷, link population history📈 & climate🌏🌡️? Or you share my love for wonderfully weird animals? Side-necked turtle genomes reveal chromosomal dynamics, skeletal innovation and cancer resistance www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A 🧵

Happy to share that our work with Ekaterina Osipova, @maggiemcko.bsky.social, Tim Sackton, Maude Baldwin & fantastic collaborators on convergent and lineage-specific genomic adaptations in sugar-feeding birds is published in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... While high sugar intake ...

Convergent and lineage-specific genomic changes shape adaptations in sugar-consuming birds

High-sugar diets cause human metabolic diseases, yet several bird lineages convergently adapted to feeding on sugar-rich nectar or fruits. We investigated the underlying molecular mechanisms in hummin...

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"Medaka: A novel model for analyzing genome-environment interactions" by Kiyoshi Naruse & colleagues "Endemic to habitats spanning from 4 to 40°C and varying salinities, [medaka] combines broad ecological adaptability with experimental tractability." Read more: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

From Permits 📜 to Samples🧪🧬 Addressing Key Challenges for High-Quality Reference Genome Generation in Europe🧬🇪🇺 Now published in Mol Ecol Res! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Thanks to the @ergabiodiv.bsky.social team!!!🙂

Want to study the genomics of repeated adaptation with data from hundreds of species? New funding for non-Canadians @ grad or postdoc level. Internal competition at UCalgary with very short deadline so please get in touch ASAP!! sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/funding/o...

Integrative PhD position available in my lab on the mechanisms (gene expression, metabolism, microbiome and hormones) of intestinal remodelling in lampreys. Come work in a great and fun research environment with @nealdawson.bsky.social & Adam Dobson (not here). Apply: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...

Happy to present TOGA2, developed by Yury Malovichko @ymalovichko.bsky.social, the faster, memory-efficient & more accurate TOGA1 successor (github.com/hillerlab/TO...). And annotations, orthologs & gene loss/dup data generated with 4 references for 883 placental mammal and with 5 refs for 676 ...

Come join us in Heidelberg for the first German fish meeting 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬🧬🔬🐟🐠

If you like genomics, speciation, and primates, this PhD position is for you! Unraveling the genomic architecture of speciation and gene flow in guenons, a diverse group of African monkeys. Funding through DTP. Do reach out with questions! #genomics #genome_assembly evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...

One week to apply for our fully funded PhD position in Norway! This is a really exciting project in collab. with University of Helsinki and Benchmark Genetics. Samples are ready - you do (read: learn) everything - functional genomics, bioinformatics, genotype-phenotype associations 🤩 Please RT!

Jukka-Pekka Verta@jpverta.bsky.social · 12mo ago

How do regulatory genes control alternative life histories? We have an open PhD position to answer this question using functional genomics in Atlantic salmon. Apply by October 15th through www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Please share widely! 🧬🦑🖥️

Exciting news! The next #PopGroup meeting will take place in Lille 🍟, France, 7–9 January 2026 – just 1 hour by train from London, Brussels, and Paris. This year, PopGroup will also host ALPHY, the annual meeting of Evolutionary Genomics. More info: populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk See you there !

This is just the first effort of our foray into cichlid behaviour and genetics! If you are interested in working on the evolution, genomics, and neurobiology of sleep and chronobiology @uoftcellsysbiol.bsky.social in beautiful Toronto, please reach out! shafer-lab.netlify.app

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Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues

I will present my freshly published paper on bat diet reconstruction and phyllostomid ancestral omnivory at ESEB @eseb2025.bsky.social, on Tuesday August 19th, poster session 2 P02.375. Looking forward to it!🦇

🧬 Explore the latest from Bioinformatics Advances: “Exonize: a tool for finding and classifying exon duplications in annotated genomes” Full article available: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf177 Authors include: @chriswheat.bsky.social

You link #phenotype 🦜 to #genotype 🧬 with #comparative #genomics 💻? This #review is for you 📜: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... We review new #methods, remaining #challenges and #future directions and highlight recent key studies. Thanks @hillermich.bsky.social! Please share! 🙂

1/5 ✨Proud✨ to see our review with Katie Peichel as featured content in Trends_Ecol_Evo, with my beloved alpine lineages of Arabidopsis arenosa on the cover. Hope that you find it interesting! doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.11.007

🚨 Super exited to see our paper on the inheritance and genetic basis of guppy color variation come out in @natecoevo.nature.com‬ rdcu.be/eugWV Guppy males have enormous variation in color patterns, with many combinations of ornamental spots and stripes. But where does all this variation come from?

Its that time again - the list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2026 is live! PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/2XTHBP6CZGEn... Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share! 🧪

Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2026

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