New paper out in Ecology 🌿🐝 We demonstrated how selective pressures acting on target phenotypic traits indirectly shape genome size evolution in recently diverging plant lineages ➡️ esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @esajournals.bsky.social

Linking genome size variation to phenotypic selection on target traits

Genome size (GS) is known to be highly variable among angiosperm species. However, this variation can also occur within species. Both interspecific and intraspecific variations in GS have been often ....

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Excited to share our new paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social on data and code archiving at @britishecologicalsociety.org journals. TL;DR: Data archiving rates are high, code archiving rates are low, documentation needs to be improved! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.....

Data‐ and code‐archiving in the British Ecological Society journals: Present status and recommendations for future improvements

Data- and code-archiving are important components of open science, as both make research more transparent, reproducible, accountable and credible, allowing future researchers to build on previous ...

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🧬🌸 So happy to see this out in @molecology.bsky.social!! We show that strong hybrid seed inviability evolved rapidly between two incipient lineages of one of the fastest documented radiation in flowering plants, playing a key role in their diversification. ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Insurgence of Strong Hybrid Seed Inviability Explains the Initial Phases of Divergence in the Rapidly Evolving Dianthus rupicola Complex

Understanding the mechanisms underlying fast diversifications is central to evolutionary biology. This can be partly achieved by focusing on intrinsic reproductive barriers that emerge during early s...

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✅📄Now Free Access: Among- and within-population variation in germination response shapes ecological resilience in the Mediterranean cliff species Brassica incana Get the Paper: doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

Among- and within-population variation in germination response shapes ecological resilience in the Mediterranean cliff species Brassica incana

AbstractBackground and Aims. Understanding how plant species respond to extreme conditions is crucial for predicting their ecological resilience under clim

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New Evolution Digest out! 🎉 Does balancing selection maintain fitness variance? Yes, when drift and environmental fluctuations are in play! I discuss why this matters for plant adaptation to climate change. 🌱🌡️ doi.org/10.1093/evol... @sse-evolution.bsky.social @journal-evo.bsky.social

Digest: Drift and environmental fluctuations reveal fitness variance under balancing selection

Abstract. Why natural populations harbor high additive genetic variance for fitness remains an evolutionary puzzle. Connallon and Czuppon (2026) show that

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Our latest issue features a Q&A with Noni Franklin-Tong, who studied self-incompatibility in the field poppy at the University of Birmingham, where she is now Emeritus Professor of Plant Cell Biology. Find out why she began studying biology here: www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Interview with Noni Franklin-Tong, who studied self-incompatibility in the field poppy at the University of Birmingham, where she is now Emeritus Professor of Plant Cell Biology.

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An angiosperm‐wide perspective on reproductive strategies and floral traits

Flowering plants have many modes of sexual reproduction, notably varying from selfing to outcrossing, and from bisexual flowers to individuals with separate sexes (dioecy). These reproductive modes ...

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Carlson et al. build a mathematical model considering how genotype-by-environment interactions can maintain variation and parametrize their model to test its applicability to real mutualisms. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

How Genotype-by-Environment Interactions Can Maintain Variation in Mutualisms | The American Naturalist

Abstract Coevolution requires reciprocal genotype-by-genotype (G × G) interactions for fitness, which occur when the fitness of a genotype in one species depends on the genotype it interacts with in a...

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Thanks everyone for attending the hack-a-thon!

Natalie Cooper@nhcooper123.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Great two days of BES data/code hack-a-thon. 111 people (in person + online) collating data and chatting about open science. Big take homes so far: people ❤️ open science; data/code archiving means different things to different people; we can make some simple improvements with big impacts!

🔥 New paper from my PhD out in @commsbio.nature.com 🔥 🌱 How do seed traits shape plants life? 🧬 We show the link between the genetic architecture of adaptation in seed traits, climate and pollinator communities in the wild plant Brassica incana. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Genomic signatures of adaptation in seed traits in the wild plant Brassica incana - Communications Biology

A study conducted on the wild plant Brassica incana identifies a complex genetic architecture underlying seed trait adaptation and shows how several candidate genes overlap with those involved in adap...

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My first solo author paper is now available in early view at Methods in Ecology and Evolution! I develop a covariance reaction norm (CRN) model for estimating continuous, multivariate, and nonlinear environmental effects on G and P matrices. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Covariance reaction norms: A flexible method for estimating complex environmental effects on trait (co)variances

Estimating quantitative genetic and phenotypic (co)variances is crucial for investigating evolutionary ecological phenomena such as developmental integration, life history trade-offs and niche spe...

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Thank you to our brilliant delegates, mentors, speakers, the organising committee and our hosts at the University of Birmingham for making New Phytologist next generation scientists 2025 a great success!

Truly grateful for the opportunity to attend the New Phytologist next generation scientists symposium at @unibirmingham.bsky.social An inspiring day filled with brilliant people and great science! #npnextgen @newphyt.bsky.social

New Phytologist next generation scientists 2025 starts very soon - at 13:30 BST (UTC+1)! Join in for free online via the livestream: www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent... #PlantScience #Botany

Katie Field@katiefield4.bsky.social · last yr.

Heading to Birmingham for the @newphyt.bsky.social #NGS25 meeting - repping @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social 🌱👥🌍 programme looks GREAT and can’t wait to meet everyone 🤩 - and you can stream online for free over the next few days. www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent...

Thanks to everyone for a fantastic virtual meeting! Shout out to the speakers, attendees, moderators and volunteers for helping make this a successful event. #Evol2025 @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social

The program for Evolution 2025 is now live! Talk schedules for both the virtual and in-person meetings can be found here: www.xcdsystem.com/evolution/pr... @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social #Evol2025

My NSF PRFB on the genetics of female polymorphism in hummingbirds was terminated yesterday. I don't have much to say, I'm just sad. We've discovered so much, and could have gone so much further. If anyone else is in the same boat, esp postdocs, please reach out, it would be good to connect.

🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴 For American students planning to start grad school who are reconsidering their USA offers (or had offer rescinded), my Canadian university #QueensU announced a special funding call. Want to join my lab to study #plant #evolution? Get in touch! 🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴

Registration for Evolution 2025 is now open! Come join us virtually from May 29-30, and/or in-person in Athens, GA from June 20-24. @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social #Evol2025 www.evolutionmeetings.org/registration...

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Evolution 2025 - the joint conference of the SSE, ASN, and SSB

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2025 starts with a methodology publication by Ștefan et al. on Utilising affordable smartphones and open-source time-lapse photography for pollinator image collection and annotation - Happy new year! doi.org/10.26786/192...

Great talks, brilliant researchers and amazing people! So thankful to have been part of this! #BES2024 Can’t wait to see you in Edinburgh! @britishecolsoc.bsky.social

New paper from my PhD thesis finally out! 🚨

Annals of Botany@annbot.bsky.social · 2y ago

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Among- and within-population variation in germination response shapes ecological resilience in the Mediterranean cliff species Brassica incana