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Jesper Boman
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Jesper Boman @jesperboman.bsky.social · Apr 3
I feel honored that our work: "On the origin of an insular hybrid butterfly lineage" was picked as "Editor's choice" and that my picture of a mating couple (🧡🤎) covers the latest issue of Evolution @journal-evo.bsky.social. Link to paper: academic.oup.com/evolut/artic... (1/8)
Cover: Northern brown argus (Aricia artaxerxes) mating in the wild in Uppland, Sweden. These individuals (female-left, male-right) and forty of their offspring were later whole-genome resequenced to make a linkage map. Boman J., Nolan, Z.J. And Backström, N. On the origin of an insular hybrid butterfly lineage. Evolution 79 (4)
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 1d
Tip rate estimates can predict future diversification, but are unreliable and context dependent https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.06.680809v1
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Jesper Boman @jesperboman.bsky.social · 4d
"An appealing metaphor is that the smaller population is on a drunkard’s walk, and the larger population, sober though tethered to the drunkard, must counterstep to keep the pair on target; in doing so, however, the sober member of the pair also looks drunk." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Quantitative system drift
We consider a biological system composed of multiple genetically variable components, the combined result of which is a quantitative trait under stabilizing selection for an optimal value. We show mat...
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Marcela Uliano-Silva @marcelauliano.bsky.social · 6d
Preprint Alert! 🦥
We produced complete genomes for 2 Xenarthra and placed them in a mammalian comparative framework. We found that Xenarthra harbour the largest number of retrocopies in mammals! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Retrocopy formation and domestication shape genome evolution in sloths and other xenarthrans
Xenarthrans, comprising sloths, anteaters, and armadillos, represent one of the most morphologically and physiologically specialised mammalian clades, yet the genomic basis of their adaptations remain...
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Dr. Tyler A. Elliott @transposableman.bsky.social · 7d
#TEsky Satellite DNAs rising from the transposon graveyards
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Simon Evans @sevans.bsky.social · 9d
Our 4yo wants to keep some of our kitchen’s fruit flies as pets. Feels like I’m already l losing him to popgen.
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Patrick Krapf @krapfpatrick.bsky.social · 10d
(1) So happy to share our recent work on Finish wood ants 🐜🧬🥳
"Evidence for climate-mediated range expansion of hybrid wood ants"
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@helsinki.fi & @uvapress.bsky.social
This integrative project was funded by the Research Council Finland & #MSCA of the European Comission
Evidence for climate-mediated range expansion of hybrid wood ants
Climate change challenges many species. To persist, species can shift ranges, respond plastically, and adapt. Yet, these responses require variation - often limited in natural populations. While hybri...
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Ryo Yamaguchi @r-yamaguchi.bsky.social · 12d
Question for speciation researchers!
I'm looking for "the most classic mathematical models of speciation" to introduce in my class. What comes to mind when you hear this phrase?
Would love to hear what you consider the classical models in the field. I'll start first:
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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 13d
🦋 Butterflies are booming across England, thanks to nature friendly farming

New research shows that agri-environment schemes (AES) are significantly boosting biodiversity by paying farmers to adopt nature-friendly practices like wildflower strips and hedgerows.
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Jenn Coughlan @jenncoughlan.bsky.social · 13d
I'm so proud of this work!!! It was an incredible amount of effort that started when I was trapped in a greenhouse during the pandemic and is only now seeing the light of day. Kudos to Megan, Hagar, & Pia!

We'd love to hear your thoughts!
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Introgression and Parental Conflict Underlie Repeated Occurrences of Postzygotic Isolation
Postzygotic reproductive isolation is often thought to accumulate as a byproduct of neutral divergence. Yet, it frequently evolves rapidly, in line with non-neutral evolution. A major driver of intrin...
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Jesper Boman @jesperboman.bsky.social · 17d
From Tränkner and Nuss (2005), Nota lepid. 28 (1): 55-64
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Jesper Boman @jesperboman.bsky.social · 17d
Wouldn’t mind combining butterfly watching with asparagus season myself ;)
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 20d
We have a new paper out in Molecular Ecology, led by @devinbendixsen.bsky.social ! Reproductive isolation due to divergent ecological selection is accompanied by vast genomic instability in experimentally evolved yeast populations onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 24d
A single genotype of Kalanchoe ×houghtonii as the 1st reported clonal hybrid capable of worldwide colonization

"striking genetic uniformity, high phenotypic plasticity, and extremely high rates of vegetative reproduction ... a 'general-purpose genotype'"

From: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The Winner Takes It All: a single genotype of Kalanchoe ×houghtonii is a global invader
Background and Aims Invasive alien plant species pose a global challenge, and their impact is amplified by globalisation and the accelerating pace of climate change. In mild-climate regions, drought-t...
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Project Psyche @projectpsyche.bsky.social · 25d
(1/6) 🦋 We are thrilled to announce the release of the 1,000th reference genome of Lepidoptera species found in Europe!
This goal was reached with the release of Stenoptilia islandicus, also known as the mountain plume moth.
Read the story below!👇🏽
Genome sequencing progress for Lepidoptera. Stacked bar charts represent the cumulative number of lepidopteran species with a reference genome per year. The colours represent the different levels of genome assembly quality, ranging from contig to chromosome-level. Numbers in brackets represent the range in numbers of species that have a given assembly level per year. Data derived from GoaT on 05.09.2025.
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Benoit Bruneau @benoitbruneau.bsky.social · 29d
Finally quality sperm whale content! Where is this from?
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Jean-François Cudennec @jfcudennec.bsky.social · Sep 8
Just woke up from a social media pause and the first thing I see is an incredible footage of a sperm whale casually cruising with a giant squid in its mouth ??

🦑 🌊 🌿
Vertical photo of a sperm whale with a giant squid in its mouth. The tentacles and body of the squid can be seen emerging between the teeth. Ventral view of the same scene : a sperm whale with a giant squid in its mouth. The tentacles and body of the squid can be seen emerging between the teeth.
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Jonathan Romiguier @selfishmeme.bsky.social · Sep 4
You may have missed this #ant poster at #ESEB2025, but be sure not to miss the article just published in #openacess in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature
In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...
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Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos @dortizba.bsky.social · Sep 3
We’ve just published a paper on Senecio showing that ecological speciation and mutation-order speciation can act together rather than as an either/or. Congratulations, Maddie James and MC Melo!
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Mahwash Jamy @mjamy.bsky.social · Sep 3
Check out our new paper on adopting a trait-based framework for protist diversity! We make the case for a unified protist trait database, how to build it, and how it could transform research on protist ecology and evolution.
#protistsonsky
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Pierre Ramond @pierreramond.bsky.social · Sep 3
Hello there 🦋
Happy to share our piece "Towards a trait-based framework for protist ecology and evolution" in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social

Let's build a unified trait 📏 database to unlock transformative insights into protist 🔬 ecology 🌍 and evolution ⏳

▶️ doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · Aug 29
In the earliest stages of adaptive introgression, beneficial immigration can drive genome-wide changes. In a new preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... colleagues & I document exceptionally rapid genomic introgression in a lake population of stickleback.
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Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾‍♀️ @crazychipkali.bsky.social · Aug 28
Learnt loads working on this review together with incredible 🌿 biologists! We discuss the role of chromosomal rearrangements in population div. & speciation & attempt to bridge the gap between macro- and microevolutionary processes. www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...
Frontiers | Bridging micro and macroevolution: insights from chromosomal dynamics in plants
Understanding the relationship between macro- and microevolutionary processes and their delimitation remains a challenge. This review focuses on the role of ...
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Germán Hernández-Alonso @germanha.bsky.social · Aug 28
New rock dove paper!🕊️
Bit by bit, we are disentangling their evolutionary history and adding evidence to recognise the elusive West African rock doves as a different species
*please ignore the little typo in the title, livia should be lowercase
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Gone With the Wind: Exploring a Vanished Rock Dove, Columba Livia, Hybrid Zone in the Sahara Desert
In this study, we tested the hypothesis of the existence of a hybrid zone between two differentiated rock dove lineages, which may contribute significantly to their divergence. By analyzing newly gen...
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Pável Matos @pavelmatosm.bsky.social · Aug 19
New PhD position: Butterfly Conservation Genomics 🦋
The project focuses on threatened butterflies in Czech dry grasslands and steppes.
Deadline: September 12, 2025
More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/
Join us
Opportunities Below are the positions currently open in our lab. PhD position (full-time doctoral funding) We are seeking a highly motivated PhD student to join our team. The goal of the project is…
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Martin Johnsson @mrtnj.bsky.social · Aug 21
Lou Guyot: Long term balancing selection can favour the evolution of recombination suppression by linked selection on deleterious recessive alleles. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

(From the posters. A preprint QR code is really the best part of a poster.)

#eseb2025
Loci under balancing selection facilitate the emergence of pseudo-overdominance and recombination suppression
Loci under strong balancing selection, such as sex-determining, mating-type, and self-incompatibility loci, are frequently flanked by regions of suppressed recombination. The reasons why recombination...
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Mahwash Jamy @mjamy.bsky.social · Aug 21
Interested in eukaryotic algal evolution, metagenomics, new plastid diversity, and more? Check out my poster (P175) today at #eseb2025 ! #protistsonsky
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Justin Blumenstiel @bdelloid.bsky.social · Aug 16
The original circos plot? From the 1947-1948 Carnegie Yearbook, the page prior to McClintock's Mutable Loci in Maize paper.
An old image of a salivary gland chromosome from Drosophila melanogaster, with lines across different segments indicating contact points.
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