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Now in print: "The distribution of fitness effects during adaptive walks using a simple genetic network" by talented Nick O'Brien. ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success UQ News journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/a…

Fine-scale contemporary recombination variation and its fitness consequences in adaptively diverging stickleback fish nature.com/articles/s4155…

Of all the bullshit you could spend your time and money on, this test has to be in the >97th percentile for being a useless waste

July's 40th anniversary Perspective by @SuseJohnston helps celebrate 40 years of MBE by highlighting past and current knowledge on the genetic basis of variation in meiotic recombination. buff.ly/4cJomH2

"Our results suggest that hybridization can significantly influence the recombination landscape, and that the reduction in allele shuffling contributes to the initial purging of introgression in the generations following a hybridization event." biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

GATK 4.6.0.0 reverts back to ./. for no-calls instead of 0/0 with DP=0 github.com/broadinstitute…

Hey #evolution2024 I am recruiting a postdoc, starting as early as September 2024, to work on a variety of evolutionary genomics projects in my lab at UC Riverside. Project specifics are flexible, and the position is renewable up to five years. Please RT and get in touch!

Hey #evolution2024, come see my awesome student Alex talk about her work on a very unusual stickleback species pair today at 1130!

Pleased to announce that my lab at UC Riverside has been awarded an NIH/NIGMS MIRA. This grant will fund our research on the evolution and genetics of recombination rate variation. We are also now recruiting at multiple levels, starting with postdocs (see QT below!).

My lab at UC Riverside is looking to hire a *lab manager/technician*. We are a evolutionary genetics lab and we are especially looking for someone with experience working with fish (or a desire to learn!). See here for details: samuklab.com/files/TechAd.p…

We know that DNA introgressed from one population into another is often deleterious, but why? Carl Veller and I show that stabilizing selection, by itself, can induce selection against introgressed ancestry. doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

This is wrong, but there is a lot of confusion about why (thread)

Just posted our first official paper from the lab! Fantastic postdoc @gabbrosandstone led this work, and we're so so happy to have it out! 1/ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Widely observed negative correlation between recombination rate and TE abundance is usually interpreted as recombination rate being the "cause," influencing the efficacy of selection purging TEs. Yet, our recent study "flipped" this causality! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…… (1/5)

Hi all, my lab at UC Riverside is recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025! These positions will be fully funded and include NIH-funded projects on recombination rate evolution and chromosomal inversions. Get in touch with me at [email protected], and please RT!

My department is searching for 2 ecologists, broadly defined: aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01983

New work from my lab, led by graduate student Janis Liu. Janis studied type I error rates in Qst/Fst comparisons (1/n, link to preprint below)

For folks still here, the first big project from my group is pre-printed. Super talented postdoc Maria Akopyan explored how reference bias can skew estimates of diversity, demography, divergence and recombination rate with help from Ellie Armstrong 🦁🐯🐻 and @GMenchev. Thread 👇🏽

New paper with Sarthak R. Mishra ! Maybe it will bring you some joy given all this (waves arms around). "Estimating recombination using only the allele frequency spectrum" 1/2 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to announce my first resource publication “Correcting for Bias in Estimates of Watterson’s theta and Tajima's D From Missing Data in Next-Generation Sequencing” out now in Molecular Ecology Resources! Article linked below in short thread 👇