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Else Mikkelsen @else_mikkelsen

PhD candidate at the University of Toronto studying the genomics of speciation. Currently studying skuas, manakins, and rates of sequence evolution. Toronto, Ontario Joined January 2019
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Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids 🦆🧬 @Jente_O

8 months ago

New story on the #AvianHybrids blog! Potential adaptive introgression between Pomarine Jaeger and Great Skua avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2023/09/13/pot… Based on the @systbiol paper by @else_mikkelsen & Jason Weir | #ornithology

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Ben Freeman @BenGFreeman1

8 months ago

Are you into mountain birds and climate change? I'm recruiting graduate students and postdocs to join my lab @GTBiology. Job ad coming soon, some details here: benjamingfreeman.com/opportunities

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Silu Wang 王思露 (she/her) @silurian_wang

11 months ago

"Character displacement of egg colors during tinamou speciation" is published at Evolution.😃This hobby project started in a library, led us to museums, then the Amazon rainforest (!!), & adventures will continue... academic.oup.com/evolut/advance… #evolution #speciation #birds @SSEgrad

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Matt Daugherty @Daugherty_Lab

a year ago

New paper out in PNAS about how the ability of vertebrates to see is in part due to a gene we acquired from bacteria. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Huge congratulations and thanks to authors @ChinmayK98 @AlexJohnWeitzel, and @BriBerryTea! More below: 1/

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Mafalda Sousa Ferreira @MafaldaSFe

a year ago

In the 60s, a study described that white-tailed jackrabbits displayed continuous color variation in winter. Fifty years later, this study inspired us to ask "How can this stunning variation in winter camouflage play a role in adaptation to climate change?" 🧵

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alan lewis wildlife stuff @LewisStuff

a year ago

Wood-Quail sp? Off to Southern Peru in the summer, so was reviewing records of Stripe-faced Wood-Quail on Ebird a few days ago, when I came across this image, which doesn't match any known Wood-Quail species, listed on this checklist as SFWG.. ebird.org/checklist/S642…

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Yan Wang @funganomics

a year ago

Proud to present this genomic update on zygomycete fungi through collaborative support @zygolife @jgi These new genomes provide insights into the divergent evolution of early terrestrial fungi & the diversity of fungal CotH, a virulence factor of human-infectious Mucormycosis

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Jason Stajich @hyphaltip

a year ago

Proud to present this genomic update on zygomycete fungi through collaborative support @zygolife @jgi These new genomes provide insights into the divergent evolution of early terrestrial fungi & the diversity of fungal CotH, a virulence factor of human-infectious Mucormycosis https://t.co/jzYwuvvCAX

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Oscar Johnson, PhD @henicorhina

a year ago

🚨 New paper alert!! 🚨 Does living in a very dynamic habitat influence genetic structure? We set out to answer this question in the coolest Amazonian habitat, riverine islands. 🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me… 1/10

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Vanessa Luzuriaga @VanessaLuzuria5

a year ago

Can't believe this is happening! Excited to finally have my research wrapped up after ~5 years of amazing field expeditions, cool science, and a pandemic! DM me for zoom link if you’re interested in learning about genomic evolution of Neotropical birds 🐦

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Jeannette Whitton @JeannettWhitton

a year ago

I'm really happy to have this paper out soon in AJB (now in early view). It combines work on dispersal traits by then-undergrad Alberto Ruiz-Larrea Medina, with germination and establishment data from @litbotany's beautiful dissertation work.

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Botanical Society of America @Botanical_

a year ago

I'm really happy to have this paper out soon in AJB (now in early view). It combines work on dispersal traits by then-undergrad Alberto Ruiz-Larrea Medina, with germination and establishment data from @litbotany's beautiful dissertation work.

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Kasun Bodawatta @KBodawatta

a year ago

Do you know that there are birds with the same toxins found in poison dart frogs? See our new study where we found 2 new toxic bird species and identify some genomic adaptations related to toxic lifestyle @Carlsbergfondet @michaeltpoulsen @CBeemelmanns doi.org/10.1111/mec.16…

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Nic Rawlence @nic_rawlence_nz

a year ago

This #FossilFriday check out the nest of an extinct moa from #NewZealand, complete with clipped twigs & coprolites. Our lab is part of an exciting opportunity to preserve this important fossil site & promote fossil tourism. Stay tuned. @Lubbe_P @otago

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Silu Wang 王思露 (she/her) @silurian_wang

a year ago

Finished painting the poster😊. Happy to co-organize this symposium: Ecological Dimensions of Hybridization. #speciation @beepeg2023 @CSEE_SCEEmtgs @CanBotanical @CSEE_SCEE

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Silu Wang 王思露 (she/her) @silurian_wang

a year ago

Finished painting the poster😊. Happy to co-organize this symposium: Ecological Dimensions of Hybridization. #speciation @beepeg2023 @CSEE_SCEEmtgs @CanBotanical @CSEE_SCEE https://t.co/bPGVn6LhN8

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Brian Weeks @BriWeeks_MI

a year ago

Interested in bird skeletal evolution? Skelevision is officially out: computer vision to measure skeletal traits from museum specimens! At this point, we've measured ~15,000 specimens from ~2,000 species and counting! Reach out if interested in the data! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

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John McCormack @LAevolving

a year ago

Pleased to share our paper in @journal_evo revisiting Charles Sibley’s classic species conundrum in hybridizing Pipilo towhees, a case study that influenced cline theory & Mayr's and others' views on the nature of species during the Modern Synthesis academic.oup.com/evolut/advance…

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Ben Freeman @BenGFreeman1

a year ago

How predictable is trait evolution? I remember sketching this plot to a potential advisor while applying to grad school Took me 12 years, but now I have an answer w/ @sierrawormlion @julianheavyside @Andre_Moncrieff @henicorhina @winger_ben academic.oup.com/evolut/advance…

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Gregory Owens, PhD @Greg_Owens

a year ago

New paper by Nathan Sykes, MSc student in my lab. We reanalyzed published rockfish genomic data to identify sex determining regions across 8 species biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/5

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Stephen I. Wright @stepheniwright

a year ago

Presenting Dr @tylervkent ! Tyler successfully defended his thesis today, presenting his work on the weird and wild evolutionary consequences of plant genome structure. Well done Tyler! thanks @AmLarracuente for acting as external examiner and sharing her work @eebtoronto !

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Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids 🦆🧬 @Jente_O

a year ago

🚨New Goose Paper🚨 Highly differentiated loci resolve phylogenetic relationships in the Bean Goose complex bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… Main result: Taiga Bean Goose is most closely related to Pink-footed Goose, and not to the Tundra Bean Goose. #ornithology

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