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Evolutionary History of the Poecilia picta Sex Chromosomes buff.ly/3nT1aSL By Lydia JM Fong Iulia Darolti Yuying Lin Ben Sandkam David Metzger Judith Mank Photo: Wouter van der Bijl

What happens to the genome when you remove sexual selection? Wouter van der Bijl and I wrote a fun news piece for Current Biology about the clever manipulation of sexual selection in mossies by Claudia Wyer, @MossieCator & Brian Hollis sciencedirect.com/science/articl… cell.com/current-biolog…

What is the cause of sex-biased gene expression? Iulia Darolti used single cell RNASeq to determine the role of regulatory versus developmental differences in sex-biased genes and their evolution rates. Now out at @Evolutionletters! academic.oup.com/evlett/advance…

Excited to see my latest work with Judith Mank out now in Evolution Letters! Sex-biased gene expression at single-cell resolution: Cause and consequence of sexual dimorphism doi.org/10.1093/evlett…

A new PhD position is available in the sticklelab at the University of Groningen on animal personality as a driver of reproductive isolation? (Deadline: 30 June 11:59 pm Dutch local time) sticklelab University of Groningen Check all the details here 👇: rug.nl/about-ug/work-…

Well, I thought this had been on the twittersphere but I can't find it now. Deadline in a week May 19. I know I'm biased but I think this is a cool project for a PhD student. Butterflies, heat stress, fertility. Field work in Spain and Sweden. evol.mcmaster.ca/~brian/evoldir…

The EU Council is continuing to debate a law that would require communication providers to scan all communications, potentially including end-to-end encrypted conversations. And they are now debating including audio conversations as well.

New paper out in Evolution Journal ! 🥳 Inspired by bowerbirds, we explore a new theoretical evolutionary possibility for sexual conflict: females may “remodel” males’ capacity to sexually coerce to expand their own freedom of mate choice Yale EEB IAST doi.org/10.1093/evolut…

🚨Preprint! Sex ratio is under strong selection. With random mating, frequency dependence leads to a 50:50 ratio, but in patchy populations, female bias evolves. You might think that this is a solved problem, thanks to decades of theory starting with Hamilton. You’d be wrong! 🧵

Engelstalig onderwijs is dé reden dat het Nederlandse hoger onderwijs boven haar gewicht kan boxen en daarmee waarde toevoegt aan de Nederlandse samenleving en de Nederlandse economie. 1/16

For those headed to #evolution2023, you can catch up on what we've been doing! - Lydia JM Fong's talk about the Signature of Early Y Chromosome Divergence on the Guppy Sex Chromosome is on Saturday at 11:15 in Pecos 230... 1/5

Curious how butterflies evolve across Europe? Me too!!! Let's join forces in sampling butterflies and moths across Europe, studying their evolution across latitudes and through seasons. Help start LepEU, the European Lepidopteran Population Genomics Consortia #LepEU 1/n

One of my PhD chapters is out today! Three generations of great tits and hundreds of reversal learning tests reveal limited repeatability and no heritability of cognitive flexibility. Shoutout to Kees van Oers, Alexander Kotrschal and John Quinn for their guidance. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

. Yuying Lin's paper on variation in germline de novo mutations in guppies made the cover of Genome Research! genome.cshlp.org/content/33/8/1… Art by jacelyn , science contributions from Iulia Darolti Wouter van der Bijl and Jake Morris.

.jim thorson kindly asked me collaborate on an R package for Phylogenetic Structural Equation Models: {phylosem} This package can fit all models {phylopath} can, but adds support for: - latent variables - imputation - more distributions Out now in JEB: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/P…

Just out NatureEcoEvo - Alberto Corral-López 's tour de force! Functional convergence of genomic and transcriptomic genetic architecture underlying sociability. Heritability, GWAS and neuro-transcriptomics of collective behaviour nature.com/articles/s4155… w Niclas Kolm & many others.

{phylopath} 1.2.1 is now on CRAN. This release fixes a bug where some rare combinations of path models would generate an error. It also adds some additional input checks to increase usability.

Really happy to share that our story on mosaic evolution in the internal mushroom body circuit in Heliconiini butterflies is now published Current Biology. cell.com/current-biolog… @EBaBlab #brainevolution DZG Neurobiologie @neuroethology