MEPGT
@mepgt.bsky.social
PhD student in Uppsala University and Zhejiang University
Neutral Theory Is the Foundation of Conservation Genetics academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
Neutral Theory Is the Foundation of Conservation Genetics
Abstract. Kimura’s neutral theory of molecular evolution has been essential to virtually every advance in evolutionary genetics, and by extension, is found
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Just posted: a group paper describing major updates to my software pixy, for population genetic summary statistics. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... New since 2021: arbitrary ploidy, multiallelic sites, missingness-aware Watterson's θ and Tajima's D, Hudson's FST, multicore execution!
A nice paper by @ahancock.bsky.social, A VIM2/4 deletion, and premature truncations of CMT2 and FBX5, drive DNA methylation changes after colonization of a novel habitat. Nat. Plants (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s414...
A VIM2/4 deletion, and premature truncations of CMT2 and FBX5, drive DNA methylation changes after colonization of a novel habitat - Nature Plants
This study shows that Arabidopsis thaliana colonizing the Cape Verde Islands rapidly evolved altered DNA methylation patterns through high-impact mutations affecting VIM2/4, CMT2 and FBX5, linked to a...
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Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies the ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado | PNAS
In avocado and certain wild relatives in Lauraceae, a highly synchronized daily rhythm of floral sex timing promotes cross-pollination between two ...
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The Schatz Center is recruiting a postdoctoral scholar with experience in whole-genome resequencing to study how demography, genetic variation, and selection interact to contribute to range expansion and adaptation. Come join us!! #evolutionarygenomics psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
Postdoctoral Scholar - Adaptive Evolutionary Genomics
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Happy to share that Maëva Gabrielli's latest work on Zosterops borbonicus is now published in Evolution! Interested by identifying barrier loci with genomic data? I hope you will find this piece of work interesting! ⬇️ academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
Accounting for recombination rate variation improves inference of barrier loci and reveals the role of both natural and sexual selection in an incipient bird radiation
Abstract. Examining genomic patterns of differentiation across lineage pairs at different stages of the speciation continuum, in combination with recombina
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Hi everyone, I just started a bluesky account to share my work and keep up with the work of others :) ! I am very pleased to share this review on the evolutionary causes behind the existence of meiotic recombination hotspots: doi.org/10.1371/jour... I hope it will be useful to some of you!
Why recombination hotspots?
Meiotic recombination is the process by which DNA is exchanged between parental chromosomes during the production of gametes in eukaryotes. This phenomenon has important implications for fertility, ge...
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Simulating the pathway from life history to phylogeny - Althaus - 2026 - New Phytologist - Wiley Online Library nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Simulating the pathway from life history to phylogeny
This article is a Commentary on Smith et al. (2026), 250: 661–671.
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Genomic Imprint of Chromosomal Inversions and Demographic History in Island Populations of Deer Mice academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
The Genomic Imprint of Chromosomal Inversions and Demographic History in Island Populations of Deer Mice
Abstract. Populations that colonize islands experience novel selective pressures, fluctuations in size, and changes to their connectivity. Owing to their u
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Excited to share the SNPstar! preprint! 🌿 SNPstar helps researchers explore how natural variation in Arabidopsis thaliana affects protein structure and function by integrating SNP data, AlphaFold3 models, stability predictions, population context, and more. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
SNPstar: A Web Server Linking Allelic Variation to Protein Structure and Function in Arabidopsis thaliana
Understanding how natural genetic variants affect protein structure and function is central to plant biology. The 1001 Genomes Project has catalogued millions of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)...
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Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals
Analyses of deidentified data reveal complex interactions that quantify success at elite general science journals.
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Delayed post, but we are excited to share this study on decades of monitoring of translocations launched by the late Reed Bowman. We show a demographic boost (i.e., rescue!), but success was largely driven by a few individuals leading to erosion of genetic diversity. www.kbs.msu.edu/2025/05/scru...
🎨 job alert 🐠 Come join us! We have two positions open! These are part of our @erc.europa.eu funded project on the mechanisms underpinning convergence of colour patterns in cichlid fishes! Closing date: 16th August. Postdoc: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... Technician: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
Callipterus Cichlid Collecting Shell
ALT: Callipterus Cichlid Collecting Shell
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Florida scrub-jay genomes across space and time reveal impacts of population decline and reduced gene flow Small, isolated populations provide a test bed for conservation doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
Cool paper to be a part of! So many applications for ecology and other disciplines. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s43... #Ecology #Statistics #DataScience #ClimateChange #GAMLSS #DistributionalRegression
Distributional regression using generalized additive models for location, scale and shape - Nature Reviews Methods Primers
Distributional regression models entire conditional response distributions. In this Primer, Merder et al. discuss how distributional regression is used to predict uncertainty and extreme conditions in...
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Models used for Red List assessments underestimate climate-related extinction risk of range-shifting species doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Models used for Red List assessments underestimate climate-related extinction risk of range-shifting species - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Climate change is a threat to many species. Here the authors show that species’ range dynamics determine the ability of correlative and process-based models to predict extinction risk under climate ch...
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Interested in joining a growing lab in LA? We’re hiring a postdoc!! Please spread the word to folks in your network and feel free to get in touch with any questions recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF11142
How good is MiniBWA, the successor to BWA? To test it, I ran MiniBWA on sequencing from 76 different species, comparing mapping speed, rate and accuracy with BWA MEM. In short, it's really good. If you map short reads, it's well worth your time. andrewcarroll.github.io/2026/06/30/t...
The Best of Both Worlds - Assessing MiniBWA
Recently, Heng Li released MiniBWA (GitHub) alongside a paper by Heng Li and Nils Homer describing the method (paper). MiniBWA builds on the approaches in Minimap2 (also by Heng Li), but falls back on...
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New position for Postdoctoral Research Associate! @rbuggs.bsky.social careers.kew.org/vacancy/post...
Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) - Careers | Kew Gardens
We are seeking a postdoctoral research associate to conduct genomic analyses of elms affected by Dutch elm disease, including genome assembly, annotation, and phylogenomic convergence analyses. The pr...
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Estimates of the Mutation Rate per Year Can Explain Why the Molecular Clock Depends on Generation Time academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
Estimates of the Mutation Rate per Year Can Explain Why the Molecular Clock Depends on Generation Time
Abstract. Rates of molecular evolution are known to vary across species, often deviating from the classical expectation of a strict molecular clock. In man
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Genomic erosion across avian lineages in the context of their evolutionary history academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
Genomic erosion across avian lineages in the context of their evolutionary history
Abstract. Loss of genetic diversity threatens species survival, yet its dynamics and impacts can vary widely across species depending on their evolutionary
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Highlight: How the clock ticks—species-specific mutation rate informs koala conservation academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
Highlight: How the clock ticks—species-specific mutation rate informs koala conservation
The mutation rate of a genome is one of the fundamental evolutionary properties that determine the amount of genetic variation available in a population (K
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PhD Position at Uppsala University. Sophie Karrenberg’s Lab. the project is about sex chromosome evolution in plants. Come join us! Deadline 22 July. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
PhD position in evolutionary genomics - Uppsala University
PhD position in evolutionary genomics, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University
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Physiology is a hidden dimension of diversity in the radiation of woodland salamanders | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Physiology is a hidden dimension of diversity in the radiation of woodland salamanders | PNAS
Morphological evolution can be explosive, producing visually spectacular adaptive radiations like Caribbean anoles, Malagasy vangas, and African Ri...
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Very interesting talk by Xuejing (Collapse, recovery and future uncertainty: temporal genomics and simulations of genomic erosion in the Mauritius kestrel)! I've also done some conservation genomics analysis on famous plants and animals -- check out our manuscript, though our focus is on plants:)
Extinction vortices are driven more by a shortage of beneficial mutations than by deleterious mutation accumulation royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Extinction vortices are driven more by a shortage of beneficial mutations than by deleterious mutation accumulation
Abstract. Habitat loss contributes to extinction risk in multiple ways. Genetically, small populations can face an ‘extinction vortex’—a positive feedback
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Three decades of classifying threatened species: lessons learned from and about the IUCN Red List criteria for quantifying extinction risk royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Three decades of classifying threatened species: lessons learned from and about the IUCN Red List criteria for quantifying extinction risk
Abstract. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the most widely used global system for assessing species’ extinction risk, has become a foundational sou
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Trait evolution drives speciation through complex interactions between genome size, adaptation and allometry royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Trait evolution drives speciation through complex interactions between genome size, adaptation and allometry
Abstract. Speciation shapes biodiversity, yet why some lineages diversify faster than others remains unclear. Theory predicts that traits promote ecologica
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@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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Pleased to share that my first, first-author publication was published yesterday in @pnas.org ! We (me + @jrossibarra.bsky.social) did a little bit of detective work to better understand the age and origin of a mutation that played a key role in maize domestication. doi.org/10.1073/pnas... (1/n)
