Just bridged my account from Mastodon to Bluesky using @bsky.brid.gy so you can now follow me on either platform! Still relatively new to all of this, trying to figure things out as I go ...
#Macroevolution
🧬 New post on The Brownian Notion
🐸🦎 Frogs, salamanders, and jumping genes: amphibian genomes are messy, huge, and full of stories about how DNA moves, adapts, and evolves. #transposons #mobileDNA #evolution #macroevolution #genomics
https://substack.com/home/post/p-175407494
Till Selection Do Us Part? Testing Sexual Selection’s Role in Speciation
Summary & Analysis by Pooja Radhakrishnan of "Evolutionary lability of sexual selection and its implications for speciation and macroevolution" by Januario et al.
https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/April-2025-Januario.html
Check out our new article introducing phylogeochemistry, combining #macroevolution with #geochemistry. We investigated evolutionary patterns of element ratios in #belemnites through the Jurassic and Cretaceous.
Simon et al. compared the role of constraints and selection on function to align micro- and macroevolutionary patterns of hindlimb trait covariation in frogs. They inferred that species tracked jumping performance peaks mostly along lines of least resistance within-species. Read now ahead of print!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/735569
#evolution #macroevolution #species #performance #hindlimb #covariation
Genetic Differentiation and Evolutionary Transition-Transversion Bias in Vertebrates by the Example of the CYTB Gene with Emphasis on Mammals and Primates - #microevolution #macroevolution #transitiontransversionbias #mutationprocess #geneticsaturation #generegulation - https://link.springer.com/article/10.3103/S0095452724060045
Januario et al. found no correlation between sexual selection intensity & speciation rates or proxy traits. Because sexual selection intensity has high intraspecific variation and low phylogenetic signal, its macroevolutionary impacts are weak. Read now!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/734457
#sexualSelection #speciation #intraspecificVariation #phylogenetics #macroevolution
🚨New #phylogenetic paper alert!🚨
🌲+🔥= speciation?
This one has been a bit of a journey, but thanks to lead author Dan Turck's expertise on #conifers it has turned out as quite the treasure-trove of conifer #Evolution !
https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16454
(reading-access link on my website)
#AJB #macroevolution #botany
Interested in doing a PhD in Sheffield on traits innovation and elaboration in the North Sea with myself, Tom Webb and Katie Fields? Have a look at this funding opportunity: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/acce-dla-programme-traits-innovation-and-elaboration-in-marine-ecosystems/?p176792
#macroevolution #macroecology #rstats #phd
🚨New Paper🚨
@EvolLetters Check out a cool story behind the importance of ecological opportunities in #lizard #macroevolution ! Besides exciting 🦎-biology, it's our 1st go at Causal Inference for #diversification models (our related project funded by @snsf_ch ). More soon!
Microevolution can be used to predict longer term evolution, new study shows #evolution #microevolution #macroevolution #study #climate #evolvability #change #selection #science
Fancy looking at how mass extinctions shape biodiversity? Join me and Gavin Thomas at Uni of Sheffield and Natalie Cooper at the NHM for this flexible PhD open to anybody. We really encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds in academia to apply! #macroevolution #PhD https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/how-are-mass-extinctions-shaping-biodiversity/?p170698
📢 Postdoc job!
Knowledgeable in #phylogenetic comparative analyses and #macroevolution?
Join us to study the #evolution of biotic dispersal across seed #plants!
Details: https://computationalecology.github.io/posts/2024-postdoc-plant-macroevolution/
Come explore the frontier of PCM with us! Mariana P. Braga (https://www.marianapbraga.com) and I host the symposium “What we can and cannot know through current and upcoming Phylogenetic Comparative Methods” at the joint@evol_mtg in Montréal and want your views in that discussion!
https://ecoevo.social/@evol_mtg/111976003905981068
#Evol2024 #evolution #macroevolution #phylogenetics
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Deeply honoured for this invitation and to be able to present my research in front of an Indian scientific audience. Hopefully, I will be able to deliver!
#India #Odonata #macroevolution #microevolution #insects #Darwin #Wallace #evolution
Excited about this new preprint by my colleague Stephen De Lisle and myself about (the lack of) time-dependency across both micro- and macroevolutionary scales:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.02.569704v1
#macroevolution #microevolution #EvolutionaryBiology #Evolution
#fossilfriday idiosyncratic #paleontology paper of the week. This time, interest in questions of when and how groups evolve traits, ecologies that we now consider characteristic of their modern relatives: an example with #beaversofmastodon
I signed up for this site last year so it’s about time I actually started using it! A bit of an #introduction. I am an #ornithologist who works on #phylogenetics #taxonomy and #macroevolution. These days mostly with #suboscine birds. I love working with and contributing to citizen/community science databases like #iNaturalist and #eBird. Follow along for wildlife photography and science content!
David Černý presenting his new (dated) supertree inference method BLeSS, with some cool insights on the pros and cons of imputing missing taxa #Evol2023 #Evolution2023 #phylogenetics #macroevolution
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