Excited to be at #SMBE2026 and looking forward to so many interesting talks and posters! I'll be presenting a poster today on pervasive hybridization and conservation challenges on a very cool group of freshwater fish 🐟🐟 at Arkaden 4+5. Come say hi! (if you can find the posters upstairs)

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Evolutionary Genomics and Bioinformatics@evogenbioinf.bsky.social · 8mo ago

(1/2)🎓The EGB group congratulates @sofialmendes.bsky.social on the successful defence of her PhD thesis entitled “The role of hybridization in speciation and adaptation: insights from Iberian freshwater fish species” held last Thursday at FCUL. We wish Sofia continued success!

Help! Is anyone else finding batch effects between whole genome sequences generated with Illumina NovaSeq6000 vs NovaSeqX? Any suggestions or solutions would be hugely appreciated! 🙏 #PopGen #ConGen #Bioinformatics #Genomics 🧬🖥️🧪

🎙️Our team member @sofialmendes.bsky.social was recently featured in @90segundosciencia.bsky.social, where she spoke about her work on the description of an endemic fish species in the Sado River basin: Squalius caetobrigus🐟 ▶️Tune in to hear more (only in 🇵🇹): 90segundosdeciencia.pt/episodes/ep-...

📢Just out! A new preprint from our team members Alex Blanckaert and Vitor Sousa. 💡"Evolution of mate choice or accumulation of DMIs: exclusive paths to reproductive isolation?" 📎Available at: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @cienciasulisboa.bsky.social @ce3c

Interactions between mechanisms of reproductive isolation

Speciation is responsible for the diversity of species observed today and corresponds to the build-up of reproductive isolation between populations. Reproductive isolation can be generated by differen...

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On February 11th, we celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, recognizing their vital role in science and technology. Meet some of the women from our team who are driving science forward!💪👩 @cienciasulisboa.bsky.social

(1/2) We congratulate our student Julie Westerling on the defence of her MSc dissertation, last friday, entitled: "Exploring genetic diversity and population structure of the Spanish minnowcarp (Anaecypris hispanica)".🐟 @cienciasulisboa.bsky.social 📷Carlos Carrapato

A study of 632 freshwater fish species from 9,989 locations finds climate warming affects fish abundances, with increases at the poleward edges of species’ distributions and declines at the equatorward edges of species’ distributions. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Super happy to share that we described a new species of #freshwater #fish endemic to the Sado River basin in Portugal - the Sado chub🐟🐟

Iberian Association of Limnology (AIL)@aillimnologia.bsky.social · 2y ago

A new species of the genus #SQUALIUS (Leuciscidae, Actinopterygii) from the Sado River basin in Portugal. By: Sofia L. Mendes @sofialmendes.bsky.social, Silvia Perea, Vitor C. Sousa, Carla Sousa-Santos and Ignacio Doadrio. New online article published in #Limnetica. www.limnetica.net/en/limnetica...