Please share: Full-time PhD position on Butterfly Evolution at High Elevations 🦋⛰️ The project aims to understand the evolution and adaptation of Andean white butterflies using genomics. DEADLINE: September 11, 2026 More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/

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Opportunities Below are the positions currently open in our lab. Open PhD position (full time) Comparative and Population Genomics of Butterflies at High Elevations. The project aims to understand …

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We just released a new open resource for studying evolution, ecology, colour, behaviour & biodiversity. OzButterflies 🦋 ✨ 4,000+ individuals 🌈 Visible + UV images 🧬 CO1 barcodes 📈 Spectral reflectance data 🏞️ 125 species doi.org/10.1093/data... @mherberstein.bsky.social @livuni-ives.bsky.social

Ce livre raconte leurs aventures scientifiques exceptionnelles à travers 70 portraits illustrés, les obstacles surmontés, les découvertes et progrès de ses "Savanturières" Parmi elles, plusieurs femmes de sciences de l' @isyeb.mnhn.fr 👉 Ed.grand public du @mnhn.fr 📖 www.mnhn.fr/fr/savanturi...

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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Second-chance speciation in the Clouded Apollo butterfly: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Second-chance speciation in the Clouded Apollo butterfly

Lancho-Silva et al. reveal two successive contacts between butterfly populations that capture the surprisingly rapid emergence of reproductive isolation driven by selection for chemical differences, a...

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Super nice new study by Camille Le Roy and collegues finds that "Dipteran flight diversity is shaped by aerodynamic constraints, scaling, and evolutionary trade-offs". Published in PlosBiol

A glimpse of our work on the population genomics of the critically endangered Alcon blue (Phengaris alcon) in Czechia. Many thanks to Jihoceska televize for featuring our research! 🦋

Three days of inspiring science, lively discussions, poster sessions, new collaborations, and a global community brought together by frontier life science.🧪 A big thank you to everyone who made this year's Awardees Meeting such a success. 🙂 Until next year!🙃 #HFSP #sts

Dans @reporterre.net on parle de l'étude menée par une équipe de recherche internationale dont fait partie Rodolphe Rougerie @isyeb.mnhn.fr et qui suggère que la grande majorité des espèces d’insectes sur Terre est encore totalement inconnue de la science.➡️ @pnas.org reporterre.net/INF-Jusqu-a-...

Les espèces d'insectes sont 3 fois plus nombreuses que ce qu'on pensait

Une nouvelle évaluation scientifique estime qu'il pourrait exister 20 millions d'espèces d'insectes sur Terre. Un chiffre aussi énorme qu'inédit, qui devrait inciter à redoubler les efforts d'étude et...

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ISYEB@isyeb.mnhn.fr · last mo.

#Entomology #Insect_species #hyperdiverse #Barcode_Analysis #projet_BIOSCAN_France "Constructing a lower-bound estimate of the global number of insect species..." Colwell, R. K., Rougerie, R., @isyeb.mnhn.fr et al. doi.org/10.1073/pnas... En savoir + 👉 isyeb.mnhn.fr/fr/actualite...

Repeated evolution of iridescence and hindwing tails is associated with morphometric flight proxies in skipper butterflies academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...

Repeated evolution of iridescence and hindwing tails is associated with morphometric flight proxies in skipper butterflies

Abstract. Phenotypic evolution is shaped by phylogenetic history, ecology and biomechanical constraints. Butterfly wings offer an ideal system to explore t

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New paper out today! @sternarchella.bsky.social and I review how modularity and integration influence adaptive radiations and diversification. Read it here: rdcu.be/fpcSX

🎉 PUBLISHED!!!! Out now in @newphyt.bsky.social 🎉 We found positive selection on leaf shape plasticity in a Monkeyflower species. This experiment used two big field transplants, greenhouse, AND growth chamber work. It was hard, but awesome. With @ferrisifolius.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Phenotypic plasticity is broadly adaptive across an elevation gradient in the Cutleaf Monkeyflower

Leaf shape plasticity expression is variable in Mimulus laciniatus.

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Super nice podcast by Violaine Llaurens on the evolution of Morpho butterflies (in french!) www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

New paper on Biorxiv by Raphaël Dupillier, analyzing escape flight in Morpho menelaus : huge field work effort! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

araucan regulates butterfly wing iridescence by coordinating scale structure and pigmentation royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

araucan regulates butterfly wing iridescence by coordinating scale structure and pigmentation

Abstract. Butterfly wings exhibit a remarkable diversity of structural iridescent colours, yet the genetic regulation of iridescence remains poorly underst

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New👉 @royalsocietypublishing.org B 293(2071) #OpenAccess "Short-and long-term antagonistic selection explains dispersal polymorphism.." #heritability #kin_selection #Zootoca_vivipara @laspic.bsky.social , @pdevillemereuil.bsky.social @isyeb.mnhn.fr et al. 🦎 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Léa Koch@laspic.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Happy to see our new paper published today in @royalsocietypublishing.org B ! In it, we present an extensive work on the evolution of dispersal in a natural population of common lizards (Zootoca vivipara) 🦎 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Gouv. 🇫🇷 & 🇪🇺 sabrent un à un les dispositifs de contrôle/protection de l'usage de l'eau & de sa qualité. Réalisent-ils qu'ils sont les fossoyeurs de notre habitabilité & celle de nos enfants? Colère face à tant d'irresponsabilité pour satisfaire des intérêts particuliers 😡 www.cnrs.fr/fr/actualite...

Directive européenne sur l’eau : le CNRS en position d’alerte face à une réforme stratégique

Face à la révision annoncée de la directive-cadre sur l’eau (DCE) par la Commission européenne, le CNRS alerte sur les risques d’un affaib

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Fluctuating asymmetry(FA) is a common estimator of developmental stability. A genome-wide screen of deficiency lines that induce developmental instability in #Drosophila identifies new deficiencies that either enhance or reduce FA. @vincentdebat.bsky.social More in #GENETICS: buff.ly/mnUFexr (5/7)

Animaux hybrides, le superpouvoir de l'évolution. On en parle à la @sciencecqfd.bsky.social aux côtés de @natachatriou.bsky.social à 16h.

La Science, CQFD@sciencecqfd.bsky.social · 5mo ago

[RDV 16h !] Pour notre partenariat avec le magazine @epsiloon.com, on s'intéressera aujourd'hui aux hybrides et à leur rôle évolutif ! 🦁🐹🦒 Une émission co-animée par @mathildefontez.bsky.social, avec Violaine Llaurens et @crouxevo.bsky.social #ScienceCQFD www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Introducing the campest katydid of all time. 🦄💅🏽👸💞 Why would this animal (Arota festae) have evolved this way, other than to look utterly fabulous? We have unleashed some (slightly whacky) thoughts, now out in @esajournals.bsky.social. Photo credit: @zekerowe.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... 1/n

Species-specific spectral tuning of motion vision in butterflies: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Species-specific spectral tuning of motion vision in butterflies

Supple et al. investigate the spectral sensitivity of motion-sensitive descending neurons (DNs) connecting the brain to thoracic motor centers in butterflies. Optic flow-sensitive DNs are spectrally b...

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This is amazing! Infrared radiation is an ancient pollination signal | Science www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Infrared radiation is an ancient pollination signal

Color and scent are well-known pollinator cues. Some plants also produce heat, but its role remains unclear. Here, we report that plant-generated thermal infrared radiation serves as a pollination sig...

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We found support for the Rapoport effect in butterflies 🦋 species that live in more variable climates have broader thermal tolerances and larger range sizes. A collaboration with Aaron Yilmaz and @sarahdiamond.bsky.social 🔬 academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...

Climatic variability drives greater thermal tolerance breadth and enables larger range size in butterflies

Abstract. Although climatic variability has been proposed to shape physiological tolerances, and in turn, species distributions, relatively few studies hav

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Émerveillez vous devant le phénomène naturel d' #iridescence ! 💎✨ Liée à l'interaction entre la lumière et la surface d'un objet, l'iridescence s'observe dans la #nature : des ailes soyeuses de #papillons aux #minéraux irisés, on vous explique... 👉 www.mnhn.fr/fr/qu-est-ce...

Qu’est-ce que l’iridescence ?

L’iridescence est un phénomène optique dans lequel la couleur d’un objet dépend de l’angle d’observation et d’éclairage de celui-ci. En fonction de l’interaction de la lumière avec les structures à la...

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Aerodynamic consequences of wing damage in dragonfly flapping flight url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...

Aerodynamic consequences of wing damage in dragonfly flapping flight

Abstract. Flapping wings are the primary means by which dragonflies generate forces, but they are susceptible to damage due to their inherent fragility. Th

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The Map butterfly differs in wing size and color between seasons. We tested how these differences influence body temperature dynamics, revealing potentially optimized thermal performance between seasons. 🦋☀️ The study, led by Dani and Irča, is in preprint version: doi.org/10.64898/202...

A new paper on the genetics of fluctuating asymmetry... An old collaborative work finally published!! Thanks to Fred Peronnet and co and reviewer Ian Dworkin academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

Interested in adaptive genomics, genomic offset and simulations? This seems to be an extraordinary opportunity to work with Thibaut Capblancq and Olivier François, two excellent experts in the field (and also great people)

EvolDir@evoldir.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Postdoc opportunity in ecological genomics at Université Grenoble Alpes focuses on gene-environment interactions under climate change. Duration 18 mont… https://academicpositions.com/ad/universite-grenoble-alpes/2026/postdoctoral-researcher-in-population-biology-and-ecology-m-f/243400#apply #postdoc

Great new paper from Agathe Puissant's PhD in Ecology Letters: predation‐driven adaptive syndromes combining wing shape and colour patterns in Swallowtail Butterflies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...