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So happy to present Joel Elkin meta analysis of the geneti loci of vertebrate pigmentation at #TiBE2022. Only possible due to @gephebase @evolvwing and Virginie Courtier Orgogozo.

And it is finally out!!! 🥳A humongous effort led by Joel Elkin summarising what we know and what we don't know about the loci underlying variation in vertebrate pigmentation🎨 @gephebase @evolvwing Virginie Courtier Orgogozo onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Congratulations M. Emília Santos @joelElkin416 on the new paper #vertebratepigmentation

Happy #garweek to everyone! I had no idea this was a thing until now but I'm seriously impressed by the effort that's gone into this. Wasting far too much time watching gar videos right now

Pre-print 🚨 neural crest development in #cichlids varies among closely-related species, including a functional divergence in sox10 paralogs - see the 🧵👇 for the roles of these genes have in generating iconic morphological diversity of Malawi cichlids doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

So much goodness in one paper only! Cichlid neural crest, comparative genomics, gene duplications, sox10s and craniofacial skeleton. All led by brilliant Aleksandra Marconi and @gregverne with an amazing team of collaborators. She is on the look out for postdocs...just saying...

Paper for recolorize, my R package for color segmentation, is out! Featuring a couple of new examples. Special shoutout to @SVBelleghem, who lit a candle when we submitted it and also was just the most helpful coauthor you could hope for. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el…

🚨Hey there!!! 🚨Two days left to sign up for the best fish meeting of the year! #FishEvoDevo2024 It will be fintastic!! 🐟🐠sites.google.com/view/fishevode…

Hey there, we are looking for a compact underwater spectrophotometer to measure light intensity and spectrum across depth gradients. What are your favourite gadgets? Suggestions would be most welcome pleeeeease! #visualecology #pigmentation #coloursci

RNA fans in Norwich, don’t miss these two excellent talks today by Miguel V. Almeida and Haopeng Yu about TEs in 🐟 and AI in 🌱. Norwich Research Park @biouea UEA Research NRPDTP John Innes Centre Earlham Institute

After organising the Cambridge RNA Club club for a few years, it's great to finally be on the other side. Looking forward to sharing my work on this small RNA-filled session.

🚨New preprint alert!!🚨 I am delighted to share my first postdoc research paper on the interaction between transposable elements (TEs) and piRNAs in African cichlid fishes 🐠🐠 Link here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Find the highlights in 🧵

Interested in eco-evo-devo? We would be delighted to support projects Dept of Zoology ranging from genetics & plastic control of development to the genomic basis of male ornament variation & sexual conflict.🐠📷🎨 #cichlids are cool!

We celebrated our 2nd lab retreat in Morston, Norfolk. Lots of productive discussions about science and the lab's future. Plenty of seal sightings, good food, and the weather almost held up!! #GreatBritishSummer! Connie Whiting Aleksandra Marconi Joel Elkin Aaron Hickey Patrícia Duarte

Our new preprint is out: Introgression dynamics of-sex linked chromosomal inversions shapes the Malawi cichlid adaptive radiation biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Check out our new preprint about the role (and origin) of large polymorphic inversions across dozens of Malawi cichlid species! 🐟🧬

We have new lab members this week! Tropheops macrophthalmus! They will be joining Patrícia Duarte and Connie Whiting on a quest to uncover mechanisms underlying cranial neural crest divergence and phenotypic plasticity #cichlids Dept of Zoology

What a day 🤗 discussing cichlid research with close collaborators across the UK, Switzerland and Malawi. A big thank you to Bettina, Richard Durbin and Moritz Blumer for organising! #cichlidscience School of Biological Sciences Dept of Zoology GeneticsCambridge

TAFIRI and the University of Cambridge Conduct Research on the Effects of Water Light Changes on Fish in Lake Kisiba, Located in Rungwe District, Mbeya.

Many moons ago I asked M. Emília Santos if she could help me study evo-devo of neural crest using African cichlids for my PhD… and the main results are now published in Molecular Biology and Evolution 🎉 doi.org/10.1093/molbev… Thank you @gregverne for joining this chapter of my fishy adventure 🐠