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SPP 2349 Gevol @gevol.bsky.social · Sep 5

Many thanks to all GEvol members for a truly wonderful annual meeting. It was really great to catch up with you all again.

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SPP 2349 Gevol @gevol.bsky.social · Aug 28

Many thanks to Barbara Feldmeyer, Eckart @eckartstolle.bsky.social and Erich @bornberglab.bsky.social for organising and hosting our GEvol-inspired symposium @eseb2025.bsky.social 👏

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SPP 2349 Gevol @gevol.bsky.social · Aug 20

We wrapped up the day with a nice dinner together — paella included! (2/2)

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SPP 2349 Gevol @gevol.bsky.social · Aug 20

Lots of inspiring talks & posters at our GEvol symposium at #ESEB2025 yesterday!
Thanks to everyone who presented, especially our invited speakers @ahuylmans.bsky.social & @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social. From GEvol, Marie Lebherz, Elisa Israel and Barbara Feldmeyer gave talks about their work. (1/2)

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SPP 2349 Gevol @gevol.bsky.social · Aug 18

Don't miss our symposium (S29: Genomic Basis of Evolutionary Innovations) at @eseb2025.bsky.social tomorrow starting at 11. Hope to see many of you there!

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SPP 2349 Gevol @gevol.bsky.social · Aug 13

A night full of fun, science and insects: We invite you to join our “Lange Nacht der Insekten” on Sept. 5th, 6pm until midnight, at LWL Museum of Natural History in Münster. Bring your family and friends and explore an ant farm, watch a science slam and visit the planetarium! Entrance is free.

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SPP 2349 Gevol @gevol.bsky.social · Jul 16

@eseb2025.bsky.social We are looking forward to welcome four GEvol members presenting Tuesday 19.8. in S29 "Genomic Basis of evolutionary innovation": Invited Speaker @ahuylmans.bsky.social, Marie Lebherz @bornberglab.bsky.social, Elisa Israel (Prohaska Lab) and Barbara Feldmeyer @sgn.one. 🌞

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SPP 2349 Gevol @gevol.bsky.social · Jul 15

🪰🚨 Check the new GEvol paper by our PhD students Andreas Remmel and Karl Kaether and PIs Peter Stadler und Steffen Lemke about stage-specific Genes at Life Stage Transitions in Flies: doi.org/10.1002/jez....

Recently Evolved, Stage‐Specific Genes Are Enriched at Life‐Stage Transitions in Flies

We discovered that 20%–30% of protein-coding genes in Drosophila melanogaster and Aedes aegypti are only expressed during specific stages of development. Surprisingly, many of these stage-specific ge...

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SPP 2349 Gevol @gevol.bsky.social · Jul 3

💻 The last days we had a really interesting workshop on "NEXT LEVEL SCIENCE USING AI ASSISTANTS!" by www.schillermertens.de. As excited as we are about the many possible applications of AI, it's also kind of scary👻.

HOME – Schiller & Mertens

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Elias Dohmen @drdomain.bsky.social · Jun 12

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨

🔬 Ever wondered how new genes emerge from scratch? Meet DESwoMAN, a fully automated pipeline to detect and analyze newly expressed ORFs (neORFs) from transcriptome data — giving us a window into the earliest stages of de novo gene emergence!

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Nico Posnien @posnienlab.bsky.social · Jun 2

You want to apply #ATACseq in your emerging model organism, but you don't know where to start? Is #ATACseq the best method for my research questions? Search no more! We got you covered with our new review: doi.org/10.1002/jez.... Excellent collaboration with @gevol.bsky.social

ATAC‐seq in Emerging Model Organisms: Challenges and Strategies

Principle of ATAC-seq (left), overview of arthropod species with published ATAC-seq data (middle), summary of experimental design (right).

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SPP 2349 Gevol @gevol.bsky.social · Jun 2

🕷️NEW cool GEvol Paper by our Spider Group: "Gene and Genome Duplication in Spiders" by GEvol student Chetan Munegowda, @pechmannm.bsky.social, Nikola Pripic-Schäper and @nturetz.bsky.social
in JEZ-B.🕸️ doi.org/10.1002/jez....

Gene and Genome Duplication in Spiders

In chelicerates whole genome duplications (WGDs) were identified in distinct groups. While there is evidence that Xiphosurans/horseshoe crabs had three rounds of WGD and arachnopulmonates (e.g. spide...

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SPP 2349 Gevol @gevol.bsky.social · May 20

NEW PAPER by GEvol member Jacqueline Heckenhauer and her colleques from @sgn.one about Convergence in the Major Silk Gene in Caddisflies.
doi.org/10.1002/jez....

De Novo Whole Genome Assemblies of Unusual Case‐Making Caddisflies (Trichoptera) Highlight Genomic Convergence in the Composition of the Major Silk Gene (h‐fibroin)

The major silk gene, h-fibroin, was annotated in high-quality genomes of two unusual case-making Trichoptera. H-Fibroin of Limnocentropus insolitus shows a similar amino acid composition to other cas...

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SPP 2349 Gevol @gevol.bsky.social · May 13

Check out the brand new Gevol Paper about epigenetic in the Potato Beetle by our students Zoe from the Kurtz lab (Münster) and Elisa from the Prohaska group (Leipzig). doi.org/10.1002/jez....

Multiomics Reveal Associations Between CpG Methylation, Histone Modifications and Transcription in a Species That has Lost DNMT3, the Colorado Potato Beetle

Despite lacking DNMT3, EM-seq revealed CpG methylation in the Colorado potato beetle. CUT&Tag analysis showed an association of H3K36me3 and H3K27ac with transcription, with H3K36me3 mirroring CpG me....

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SPP 2349 Gevol @gevol.bsky.social · Apr 30

📢Last Chance: @eseb2025.bsky.social in Barcelona🏖️-->Abstract submission deadline Mai 5th. Please submit a abstract to our symposium #29 Genomic Basis of evolutionary Innovation eseb2025.com/list-of-symp.... With our invited speaker @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social and @ahuylmans.bsky.social.

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SPP 2349 Gevol @gevol.bsky.social · Apr 22

A new paper from our Gevol tandem projects of @bornberglab.bsky.social and the lab of John Parsch (LMU). Check out "Expression of De Novo Open Reading Frames in Natural Populations of Drosophila melanogaster" bsky.app/profile/born...

Bornberglab @bornberglab.bsky.social · Apr 22

New Paper Alert! Together with the Parsch lab, we investigated the expression of neORFs (newly evolved expressed open reading frames, identified in a previous study) in Drosophila populations using publicly available RNA-seq data. (1/2)

doi.org/10.1002/jez....

Expression of De Novo Open Reading Frames in Natural Populations of Drosophila melanogaster

We show that newly-evolved, expressed open reading frames (neORFs) identified in a set of inbred Drosophila melanogaster lines are also expressed in multiple tissues and developmental stages of poole...

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ESEB 2025 Congress @eseb2025.bsky.social · Apr 16

📢 ONE WEEK LEFT for abstract submission!

Don’t miss the chance to tell #Barcelona and the field of #EvolutionaryBiology all about your amazing work!

📝 Select from 51 approved symposia to submit your #Abstract: https://eseb2025.com/call-for-abstracts/

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Katharina Hoff @katharinahoff.bsky.social · Apr 21

Annotation of 200 insect genomes. Work driven by @stepbystepsolution.bsky.social and Mario Stanke within @gevol.bsky.social : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Annotation of 200 Insect Genomes with BRAKER for Consistent Comparisons across Species

The annotation of genomes lags behind their sequencing and assembly. For example, of 5,092 insect species in GenBank, as one of the most widely used databases, only 375 currently have annotated genome...

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Toni Gabaldón @tonigabaldon.bsky.social · Apr 9

Registrations are speeding up for #ESEB2025 in Barcelona!

👇
eseb2025.com

Do not miss this opportunity to present your most exciting work at the hot-spot #evolution event in Europe this year.

Choose among the 50+ symposia covering a broad range of topics!

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SPP 2349 Gevol @gevol.bsky.social · Apr 9

Check out the latest publication about genetics of Caddisfly silk by Gevol member Jacqueline Heckenhauer @sgn.one doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

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SPP 2349 Gevol @gevol.bsky.social · Apr 2

Check out the recent "Genetics" paper by our Gevol members Pete Czuppon and Daniel Omole: "Maintenance of long-term transposable element activity through regulation by nonautonomous elements" doi.org/10.1093/gene...

Maintenance of long-term transposable element activity through regulation by nonautonomous elements

Abstract. Transposable elements are DNA sequences that can move and replicate within genomes. Broadly, there are 2 types: autonomous elements, which encode

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SPP 2349 Gevol @gevol.bsky.social · Mar 31

We are very proud that we can already present some of the publications resulting from Gevol. Check out the recent paper by Gevol member @Katja Nowick: Regulatory networks of KRAB zinc finger genes and TE changed during human brain evolution and disease. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Regulatory networks of KRAB zinc finger genes and transposable elements changed during human brain evolution and disease

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ESEB 2025 Congress @eseb2025.bsky.social · Jan 9

📢 Meet the speakers: Beatriz Vicoso 📢

Beatriz Vicoso is a professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (
@ISTAustria
), where her group addresses the evolutionary genomics of model and non-model organisms.
Read more about her here: eseb2025.com/team/beatriz...

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SPP 2349 Gevol @gevol.bsky.social · Mar 21

We are looking forward to your abstracts for our Syposium #29 Genomic Basis of Evolutionary Innovations @eseb2025.bsky.social in 🌞Barcelona this August ➡️ eseb2025.com/list-of-symp...

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SPP 2349 Gevol @gevol.bsky.social · Mar 13

Abstracts for our Gevol organized symposium (nr 29) at the @eseb2025.bsky.social can be submitted until April 25th. We are happy to announce that @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social and Ina Huylmans are our invited speaker for this session. We are really looking forward to meet you there.

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