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Kay Lucek retweeted
30 Apr 2025
#ERGAReads | Despite rapid chromosome changes, sedges maintain conserved synteny - likely due to repetitive DNA shaping recombination and gene order. This may explain how they retain species cohesion despite high rates of #chromosome evolution. 🧬
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/mec.17086
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Kay Lucek retweeted
28 Apr 2025
Camille Cornet, @KayLucek, Paula Escuer & I had the pleasure of organising the first conference on holocentric chromosomes in @UniNeuchatel . 2 days of terrific talks & 🗣️ all about holocentricity, its #evolution across the Tree of Life, role in #speciation & #adaptation 🙌🏾🌱🦋🕷️
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Great effort! So eager to see #Erebia taking off
13 Jan 2025
🚨 New ERGA-BGE study alert! 🚨 @BioGenEurope
The reference genome of Erebia palarica, a montane butterfly endemic to North-West Iberia 🦋, is now available.
Explore its insights for biodiversity 🌍✨
➡️ Read the full preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.08.6…
#genomes for #biodiversity
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Looking forward to get the #holocentric community together @UniNeuchatel
Thanks to @snsf_ch we can also offer some travel awards! 👉 holocentricity.ch
20 Dec 2024
So excited to be organizing this with @KayLucek! Come to our lovely swiss city and share with all your network, we're gonna have a great time! 🧬🦋🌱🪱
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Thanks to all the authors providing a diverse and exciting overview where the field stands
12 Dec 2024
New ME Special Issue!
𝘼 𝙂𝙚𝙣𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙘 𝙐𝙥𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙀𝙫𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙄𝙢𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝘾𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙡 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨, edited by @HAugustijnen, @CrisAriasSarda, @marta_f_b, & @KayLucek.
@WileyEcolEvol
Read more: buff.ly/4gbNs3u
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Kay Lucek retweeted
12 Aug 2024
Many thanks to @erga_biodiv for highlighting our @BioGenEurope project in this new blog post! Go check it out! 🦋🧬🏔️⬇️
12 Aug 2024
#ERGABlog | This Monday we head to the Alps 🏔️ and learn more about the @BioGenEurope case study investigating the functional #Genomic diversity of #butterflies in the context of adaptation to environmental change 🦋
Text by @CamilleCornet17
erga-biodiversity.eu/post/ge…
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Great article @guardian featuring Project Psyche projectpsyche.org aiming to sequence reference genomes for all European Lepidoptera 🦋 👉theguardian.com/environment/… honored to be part of this exciting community project @UniNeuchatel
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What happens when strongly divergent species form zones of secondary contact? 👉 @HAugustijnen last paper with me @Mol_Ecol onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… on alpine #erebia 🦋 using whole genome resequence data for 300 individuals #biodiversitygenomics
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Kay Lucek retweeted
27 Jul 2024
@ibc2024 has been joyful to meet our incredible collaborators, plant peers 🌍🇮🇳, learn loads about 🌱 ecology, evolution, genomes, adaptation, & more! Follow us for updates on genome evolution in the holocentric Carex genus! @MEscudero_Carex @KayLucek #IBC2024
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Kay Lucek retweeted
24 Jul 2024
Throwback to last year's fieldwork in Georgia 🇬🇪 collecting Erebia 🦋 for genome annotation as part of our @BioGenEurope Case Study! Thanks to our Georgian experts Tina and @iankoshvili from CaBoL and to @REA_research, @SBFI_CH, @ISBSIB, @EUgreenresearch
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Well done! Let's explore the role of 3D genomic changes during speciation in #holocentrics and beyond
17 Jul 2024
Happy to share our press release (in French) from @UniNeuchatel! We propose a new 3D genomics view to help understand species diversification 🧬🌱🦋 with @crazy_chipkali @scueridae @KayLucek
-> The press release: bit.ly/4cHOdzn
-> The paper: bit.ly/4cHycd3
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Looking forward to exciting discoveries in Erebia! Go team 🦋
28 Jun 2024
Very excited to start a @BioGenEurope case study with @KayLucek on the adaptive potential of alpine butterflies in changing environments! 🦋🏔️We will annotate genomes to showcase the importance of genomics for conservation 🧬 @REA_research, @SBFI_CH, @ISBSIB, @Eugreenresearch
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Kay Lucek retweeted
16 Jun 2024
For me personally, I started thinking about genomic rearrangements, & 3D genome structures during my @MSCActions grant at the Natural History Museum London during wonderful discussions with @jeff_streicher & @anjgoswami ! Thank you so much for planting this seed in my head! 🙌🏾4/4
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Kay Lucek retweeted
16 Jun 2024
We thank the Fondation Pierre Mercier pour la Science & @SNSF for funding, @AliceLaigle & @CharJWright for giving precious feedback on earlier drafts, & the editorial team of @TrendsGenetics for smooth processing 3/4
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Kay Lucek retweeted
16 Jun 2024
Complex interactions b/w 3D genome structures & sequence evol., genomic rearrangements, & processes such as recombination suppression intrigued us. We immensely enjoyed writing this work! Hope it evokes such intrigue in you & opens a new perspective for speciation research! 2/4
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So exciting! What a great outcome of a group effort! Now we need to get the empirical side sorted 😊
16 Jun 2024
🚨 🧵 We (@CamilleCornet17 , @scueridae , @KayLucek & I) are delighted to share our perspectives on how the 3D genome structure could be both a cause & a consequence of speciation, just out in @TrendsGenetics !!Keeping reading 👇🏾 sciencedirect.com/science/ar… 1/4
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Kay Lucek retweeted
17 Apr 2024
7/7 Overall, we show that fusions and fissions can have a considerable impact on speciation rates, particularly when groups are chromosomally diverse, and that the importance of fusions and fissions can differ even among clades within a single genus.
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Kay Lucek retweeted
17 Apr 2024
6/7 The pattern becomes more complicated when clades within Erebia are considered: karyotypically diverse clades (e.g. the purple clade) show higher associated speciation rates while in more conservative clades (e.g. the red clade) diversification is driven more by other factors.
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Kay Lucek retweeted
17 Apr 2024
5/7 We found that, while most chromosomal change across Erebia is anagenetic, fusions and fissions seem to differ in the degree to which they are cladogenetic, with fissions being more directly linked to speciation.
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