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2025 Harry Smith Prize awarded to Óscar Romero-Báez for landscape genomics work that “sets a new standard”

#science #MolecularEcology #genetics #evolution #ecology

https://www.molecularecologist.com/2025/05/16/2025-harry-smith-prize-awarded-to-oscar-romero-baez-for-landscape-genomics-work-that-sets-a-new-standard/

Sceloporus grammicus, a smallish brown lizard with a substantial dewlap at its throat, and orange and blue-green coloring along its flanks

our new paper divining into the molecular underpinning of sympatric ecotypes of the common #quail

http://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17740

described in this blog by Santi Montero

https://santiagomonteromendieta.github.io/portfolio/20250319_quails/

#evolution #biodiversity # ecology #MolecularEcology #science

"Association scans" are just the first step to understanding local adaptation https://www.molecularecologist.com/2025/03/10/association-scans-are-just-the-first-step-to-understanding-local-adaptation/
#Evolution #MolecularEcology #Selection #Genomics

Check out this short write-up I put together, "Warmer samples for a cooler world", highlighting our recent paper.

The paper assessed the impact of different sample storage techniques on chemical (ammonium, orthophosphate, pH, conductivity, turbidity) and biological markers (SARS-CoV-2, CrAssphage) in #wastewater!

The big shock was that storage at bog-standard 4°C was a real winner:
https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/2895393-turning-up-the-temperature-for-climate-change

#WBE #Research #MolecularEcology #Sewage #Bioarchive #COVID #SARSCoV2 #ClimateChange

Nominations open for the 2025 Molecular Ecology Prize

The prize will go to an outstanding scientist who has made significant contributions to Molecular Ecology. These contributions would mostly be scientific, but the door is open for other kinds of contributions that were crucial to the development of the field.

nominations DUE Friday, April 11, 2025

https://www.molecularecologist.com/2025/02/11/nominations-open-for-the-2025-molecular-ecology-prize/

#MolecularEcology #Evolution

A request to the #eDNA #environmentalDNA community. We are working on a project related to eDNA and ethics and looking for feedback from the user community. Please help us and complete this survey. https://forms.office.com/r/P6R57BAbZq Please pass it along to other users.

If you are a #conservation biologist, #ecology practitioner #molecularecology etc. or have been thinking of using the tool, we would like to hear from you.

New manuscript category coming soon for Molecular Ecology and Molecular Ecology Resources, "minireviews" on e.g. new topic or research area for which there is not yet sufficient data for a full review or focused overview of a niche topic ... and more. Message me for further information
#genomics #MolecularEcology

Environmental DNA: The next chapter

TLDR
(1) sample collection
(2) primer development
(3) biomonitoring
(4) quantification
(5) behaviour of DNA in the environment and
(6) reference database development

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.17355

#eDNA #Opinion #MolecularEcology

Metabarcoding, metagenomics and other omics methods revolutionize the study and monitoring of aquatic ecosystems. Come and join the 350 scientists and managers who will be discussing the use and development of these methods.
https://aquaecomics.symposium.inrae.fr/

#metabarcoding #metagenomics #fish #algae #protist #DNA #bioinformatic #pipeline #omics #MolecularEcology

There is a free online Conservation Genetics Workshop running March 27-29 at the link below. The goal is to identify barriers to using these methods, and also to foster some collaborations among scientists. It involves some group work/discussions after each seminar. It runs for 2 hours each day.

https://molecular-ecology.org/materials.html

#academia #biology #conservation #science #workshops #seminars #MolecularEcology #ecology #PopulationGenetics

banner of photos of different conservationists doing their work, including field studies and lab work

Adaptive cellular evolution or cellular system drift in hares
#molecularEcology

Volume 32, Issue 15 p. 4093-4096

Arnar Palsson, Sarah Elizabeth Steele

First published: 31 May 2023

No hares found in this habitat....
#Iceland

#happynewyear

"All boreal forest successional stages needed to maintain the full suite of soil biodiversity, community composition, and function following wildfire"

#biodiversity #biomonitoring #MolecularEcology #fungi #arthropods #bacteria #soil #wildfire #succession #metabarcoding

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30732-7

Stand development stages from wildfire disturbance, establishment, crown closure, early self thinning, late self thinning, to mature. With more frequent wildfires, there is less time for regeneration between disturbances, leading to a truncation of stand development stages. This gives less time for sites to reach the mature stage.

Please help me advertise a job in the Clare lab. #postdoc #ecology #eDNA #MolecularEcology

http://www.csee-scee.ca/bioscan-postdoctoral-position-at-york-university/

Excellent organization of the UB ICTM in Serbia for the couses we gave to more than 100 people #metabarcoding #diatom #ecology #metabarcoding #biomonitoring #MolecularEcology #phylogenomics

This was last week: a nice workshop and courses we gave to 60 people online and 50 on site about #eDNA #diatom #ecology #metabarcoding #biomonitoring #MolecularEcology
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid05fCx4y9fTTmMMXRP1L8my9oUWbLtnpHwzvnpMcvkgvk5mMmfjUyNmy93zaSQFr1Yl&id=100086646482373&sfnsn=scwspmo

"**Towards exhaustive community ecology via DNA metabarcoding**"
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.16881
#metabarcoding #MolecularEcology #Biomonitoring #diversity

Using #environmental #DNA (#eDNA) from #soil to not only detect the presence or absence of #endangered #kākāpō in #New #Zealand, but to also assess #population #genetic patterns and even identify individuals.

This could be developed into an excellent, non-invasive #conservation #monitoring and #management tool.

🦜 🧬 💩 🇳🇿

#biodiversity #MolecularEcology

#Preprint 🔗 https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/84553

A kākāpō named Sirocco on Maud Island. (A green parrot.)

Figure 1 from the paper. Quote: “a) Cladogram of all species and genera detected by 12S rRNA metabarcoding of Whenua Hou soil samples. b) Relative taxon abundances of sampled locations averaged across replicates (from left to right: kākāpō display sites, feeding stations, abandoned nests, and Nestor parrot aviaries). Two different sites per location were sampled (top and bottom) at three different distances, and two aviaries of the Nestor species kea and kākā. For feeding station 2 (4m), both replicates resulted in dropouts.”

Hey y’all the #evolution and #molecularecology communities need to realize that all the mountains of genomic data we are collecting are really valuable observations of the most fundamental level of biodiversity: genetic diversity. https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cobi.14061?af=R

My new paper in Stoten:
Diatom endemism and taxonomic turnover: Assessment in high-altitude alpine lakes covering a large geographical range
#metabarcoding #diatom #ecology #lake #MolecularEcology #mountain
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969723005855?dgcid=author

New paper out today in #MolecularEcology early view!

"Biogeographic inferences across spatial and evolutionary scales"

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mec.16861

#molecularecology

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