Jack Rayner
jackrayner.bsky.social
Jack Rayner
@jackrayner.bsky.social
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New paper out: “allopatric” Drosophila species aren’t so allopatric after all. We show that most currently allopatric species pairs probably overlapped in the past and exchanged genes at levels similar to sympatric pairs. @evolletters.bsky.social

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Genomic analyses in Drosophila do not support the classic allopatric model of speciation
Abstract. The allopatric model of speciation has dominated our understanding of speciation biology and biogeography since the Modern Synthesis. It is uncon
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January 15, 2026 at 11:58 AM
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Different transcriptional responses to developmental versus short-term acclimation temperatures in Pieris rapae https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.11.686846v1
November 13, 2025 at 12:31 AM
We have a preprint out for our study testing conditions/signatures of repeated adaptation in multiple wild cricket populations. Feedback welcome!
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Genomic signatures of local adaptation across parasitised cricket populations
Host-parasite interactions are predicted to exhibit geographic heterogeneity, creating the opportunity for local adaptation. This is difficult to detect because it requires knowledge of selection pres...
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September 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Today in: sentences that make me love reading old scientific papers
March 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Our new paper on sexual antagonism in sequential hermaphrodites has now been published! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
November 22, 2023 at 6:31 AM
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Competing adaptations maintain non-adaptive variation in a wild cricket population https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.14.562337v1
Competing adaptations maintain non-adaptive variation in a wild cricket population https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.14.562337v1
How emerging adaptive variants interact is an important factor in the evolution of wild populations.
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October 18, 2023 at 5:32 PM