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@HeredityJournal @heredityjournal.bsky.social · 9d

🎙️ Have you discovered the Heredity Podcast?

👂 Hear about the latest genetics research straight from the authors

📚 Archive: www.nature.com/hdy/podcast

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@HeredityJournal @heredityjournal.bsky.social · 13d

📑 You can read their paper now on the Heredity website:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Impacts of temperature on recombination rate and meiotic success in thermotolerant and cold-tolerant yeast species - Heredity

Heredity - Impacts of temperature on recombination rate and meiotic success in thermotolerant and cold-tolerant yeast species

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@HeredityJournal @heredityjournal.bsky.social · 13d

🎙️ 📻 New Heredity Podcast!

We talk with @caitismuheil.bsky.social and Jessica McNeill about their work showing the sensitivity of meiosis to temperature and what this might mean for populations in a warming world.
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@HeredityJournal @heredityjournal.bsky.social · Aug 27

You can read the article now on the Heredity website:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Local adaptation has a role in reducing vulnerability to climate change in a widespread Amazonian forest lizard - Heredity

Heredity - Local adaptation has a role in reducing vulnerability to climate change in a widespread Amazonian forest lizard

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@HeredityJournal @heredityjournal.bsky.social · Aug 27

🎤 🦎New Heredity Podcast:

The genomes of organisms can tell us about evolutionary processes in the past - but can they also give clues about the future?

André Yves and Fernanda Werneck tell us about their work on climate adaptation in Amazonian lizards.

Listen here: shows.acast.com/heredity-pod...

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Aurora Ruiz-Herrera @aruizherrera.bsky.social · Aug 21

Another presentation from the team at #ESEB2025 today 21st - 11:30am room 115
Laura will be presenting her work on the effect of temperature on recombination - fresh from the oven 👉 journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

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Aurora Ruiz-Herrera @aruizherrera.bsky.social · Aug 21

Well done @lauuragon.bsky.social !!! Presenting at #ESEB2025 her work on temperature & recombination.
Thanks to the symposium organizares @amandabretman.bsky.social et al for selecting the work ☺️

Amanda Bretman @amandabretman.bsky.social · Aug 21

@lauuragon.bsky.social tells us about temperature and recombination rates in reptile spermatocytes🦎(check out her recent publication in PLoS Genetics)

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Damien Gergonne @damsgergonne.bsky.social · Aug 20

I presented my poster at the #ESEB2025 !

📢 Call for entomologists🐝 We are looking for Vespula germanica from Europe to further our understanding of the invasion dynamics of the species. Please get in touch!

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Henry North @henrylnorth.bsky.social · Aug 20

Surely one of the all-time best conference outreach activities: an evolution-inspired decorated street for Les Festes de Gràcia #ESEB2025

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Rob Waterhouse @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social · Aug 21

Thanks to all who popped by the booth at lunch, we're here the rest of #eseb2025 so anyone with questions feel free to come and see us. @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @biogeneurope.bsky.social @ebpgenome.bsky.social

ERGA - European Reference Genome Atlas @ergabiodiv.bsky.social · Aug 21

As a community, it’s wonderful to meet in person after so many online meetings!
📸 Here are some of the many #ERGA members at #ESEB2025.

Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth to say hi and learn more about ERGA!
#GenomesForBiodiversity

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Aurora Ruiz-Herrera @aruizherrera.bsky.social · Aug 19

Wonderful wrap up for a great symposium #ESEB2025 - thank you to all parcitipants for their high quality presentations, talks and posters (here most of the female contributors, but there were more 😉)

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · Aug 19

Unfortunately, I couldn't join in person #eseb2025, but the organizers kindly accommodated a video. Posted here in case you missed it!
youtu.be/n9Ls9-8p8x0?...

Zenil-Ferguson. The importance of quantifying rate uncertainty

YouTube video by Rosana Z-F

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Aurora Ruiz-Herrera @aruizherrera.bsky.social · Aug 18

If you are at #ESEB2025 feel free to reach us to discuss your work with us @heredityjournal.bsky.social

@HeredityJournal @heredityjournal.bsky.social · Aug 18

Heredity has a new EiC and if you fancy meeting Louise Johnson or Aurora @aruizherrera.bsky.social our amazing Co-EiC at #eseb2025 please find them or contact them via the app.

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@HeredityJournal @heredityjournal.bsky.social · Aug 18

Heredity has a new EiC and if you fancy meeting Louise Johnson or Aurora @aruizherrera.bsky.social our amazing Co-EiC at #eseb2025 please find them or contact them via the app.

@gensocuk.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social @eseb2025.bsky.social

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Susan Johnston @susanjohnston.bsky.social · Aug 18

I'm missing #eseb2025 but the lab is well-represented 🤩

📊 Kenneth Aase: genomic prediction of crossover rates (Mon S03)
🎤 Lisa Ammer: sex-differences in CO landscape (Thu 11.30am S28)
📊 Gina Henderson: (no) selection on immunity (Thu S48)
📊 Marie Raynaud: recombination hotspot variation (Thu S02)

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Rob Waterhouse @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social · Aug 18

Come find us at the @ergabiodiv.bsky.social stand #eseb2025 exhibition hall

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Aurora Ruiz-Herrera @aruizherrera.bsky.social · Aug 17

Excited to be here!
#ESEB2025 @eseb2025.bsky.social
Join us next Tuesday 19th August 11AM - Symposium 38 - New frontiers in Genome Diversity and Evolution

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Charikleia Karageorgiou (Clio) @evobioclio.bsky.social · Aug 1

A little late to share, but the first paper from the @heredityjournal.bsky.social special issue on functional and adaptive effects of genomic structural variation is now out!

Multiple forms of balancing selection maintain inversion polymorphism - Heredity

Heredity - Multiple forms of balancing selection maintain inversion polymorphism

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Juliana Rodríguez-Fuentes @julianaxrf.bsky.social · Aug 5

Really excited to share my first PhD paper about fitness effects of chromosomal inversions!

Using an experimental approach we explored if inversions involved in ecotype divergence in threespine stickleback affect fitness-proxies 1/🧵

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Experimental test of the fitness effects of divergent marine–freshwater chromosomal inversions in stickleback under different salinity conditions - Heredity

Heredity - Experimental test of the fitness effects of divergent marine–freshwater chromosomal inversions in stickleback under different salinity conditions

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@HeredityJournal @heredityjournal.bsky.social · Jul 30

Read the paper on the Heredity website:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The genetic basis of a colorful signal: the polymorphic dewlap of the slender anole (Anolis apletophallus) - Heredity

Heredity - The genetic basis of a colorful signal: the polymorphic dewlap of the slender anole (Anolis apletophallus)

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@HeredityJournal @heredityjournal.bsky.social · Jul 30

Heredity Podcast

Many Anolis lizards have a sail of colourful skin on their throats which they use to communicate, but how does something like that evolve? Find out with researchers Renata Pirani, Carlos Arias and Mike Logan
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Alper Akay @alperakay.bsky.social · May 28

Check out this amazing work from @wbderry.bsky.social lab on nucleolar size regulation by CDK-4 published in @heredityjournal.bsky.social as part of the C. elegans Special Issue. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

CDK-4 regulates nucleolar size and metabolism at the cost of late-life fitness in C. elegans - Heredity

Heredity - CDK-4 regulates nucleolar size and metabolism at the cost of late-life fitness in C. elegans

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Alper Akay @alperakay.bsky.social · Jun 10

Extended deadline for @heredityjournal.bsky.social Special Issue: C.elegans genetics and biology-31st October 2025. We have amazing papers getting into the special issue. Heredity is the official journal of @gensocuk.bsky.social and supports many conferences and training events. @biouea.bsky.social

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@HeredityJournal @heredityjournal.bsky.social · May 28

And you can find the paper on the Heredity website:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The genetic origins of species boundaries at subtropical and temperate ecoregions in the North American racers (Coluber constrictor) - Heredity

Heredity - The genetic origins of species boundaries at subtropical and temperate ecoregions in the North American racers (Coluber constrictor)

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@HeredityJournal @heredityjournal.bsky.social · May 28

New Heredity Podcast!

Frank Burbrink and Ed Myers talk about their recent work on American Racers.

Spatial patterns, hybridisation and why the shapes of evolutionary trees might be more complex than we thought.
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Episode:
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