Postdoc working on population genetics | 🦋🐥🌱

Joined October 2018
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Passionate about studying the genomics of local adaptation? Join us for a fully funded 4-year PhD at Uppsala University, Sweden. Enjoy competitive salaries, full employment benefits, and a vibrant research community surrounded by nature. Apply here bit.ly/4gAsHyn
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European butterflies have been studied intensely by scientists and naturalists for centuries. It is therefore with some surprise that we wish to report the discovery of a European hybrid lineage of butterflies that has persisted for more than 50,000 years. (THREAD)
On the origin of an insular hybrid butterfly lineage biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_evobio
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Genomic regions of current low hybridisation mark long-term barriers to gene flow in scarce swallowtail butterflies biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_evobio

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Genealogical asymmetry under the IM model and a two-taxon test for gene flow biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_evobio

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PopGenomics twitter, I am looking for examples of papers where the authors fit a demographic model to a pair of species and the maximum likelihood estimate of migration rate was 0. Anyone have any suggestions? There should be loads... (retweets appreciated)
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Evolution of hybrid inviability associated with chromosome fusions biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_evobio

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PHD CONTRACT ON BUTTERFLY GENOMICS The Butterfly Diversity & Evolution Lab in Barcelona offers a 4-year PhD contract. If you are interested, please send to Roger Vila (roger.vila@csic.es) a brief letter of motivation, CV, and the BS and MS academic record (with average grades).
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Inversions, ARGs and seahorses !
Divergence and gene flow history at two large chromosomal inversions involved in long-snouted seahorse ecotype formation biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_genomic
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I'm advertising a @darwintreelife postdoc to work at @EdinburghUni @SBSatEd on comparative #plant genomics! 16 months to use chromosomal level genome assemblies to investigate genomic diversity in British native flowering plants. Collab with @RBGE_Science. 🌲☘️🌼 Please RT.
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Large-scale phylogenomics uncovers a complex evolutionary history and extensive ancestral gene flow in an African primate radiation dlvr.it/Sr3XVB

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Do chromosome rearrangements fix by genetic drift or natural selection? A test in Brenthis butterflies biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_evobio

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New preprint! Using >200 chromosomal genomes, we reconstruct the chromosomes of the ancestral Lepidopteran and show that for over 250 million years of evolution, butterfly and moth genomes have largely been shaped by fusions involving small autosomes and the sex chromosome 🦋🧬
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Chromosome evolution in Lepidoptera biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_evobio

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A #macroevolution -ary role for chromosomal fusion and fission in #Erebia #butterflies👉@HAugustijnen 's second thesis chapter as preprint #bioarxiv biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… | Great work with great collaborators, including @RogerVila_Lab @Vlad_E_D @baetscher_livio @iankoshvili

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Team "Willow Warbler" proudly presents: Two loci that both follow dominant inheritance and interact via epistasis explain 74% of variation in migration direction in willow warblers! @VioJagger @johnsas_k @StaffanBensch @Susanne_Akesson nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

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Recent evolution of a maternally-acting sex-determining supergene in a fly with single-sex broods biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_evobio

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Environmental stress during larval development induces head methylome profile shifts in the migratory painted lady butterfly (Vanessa ... biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_evobio

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