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Out today in @molecology! We explored the landscape of gene expression in the amazing adaptation of Emperor penguin's to the extreme conditions of Antarctica 🐧🧊 First paper from the @MSCActions Poly2Adapt project! 🇪🇺onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Famed lions’ full diet revealed by DNA — and humans were among their prey nature.com/articles/d41586-0… (a round-about way to get into Nature 😍 it was nice chatting to Emma Marris about these lions!)
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Paper out today! We used tiny hair fragments from the teeth of the historic #TsavoLions to identify their prey 🦓🦒🦁 @CurrentBiology @FieldMuseum @IGBIllinois @UofIllinois cell.com/current-biology/ful…
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Today we’re excited to freely share an early-version of, perhaps, the world’s most expansive genetics dataset: Logan.
#bioinformatics #petabase #genetics #genomics #openscience
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Happy to release Stacks v2.67 today. This release updates process_radtags to make it easier to use SRA data and to filter poly-G (error) runs coming from Nextseq/Novaseq machines + bugfixes. We also added a genotype depth filter to populations #RADseq
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Catherine Wilson & @JohnPostlethw8 published research in #G3journal that explores unique features of the zebrafish sex chromosome, identifying a gene regulatory block of the zebrafish genome responsible for overseeing the maternal-to-zygotic-transition: bit.ly/4cYCkVL
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In a new study, Illinois researchers describe a hybrid zone between two manakin species in Panama that has overall remained relatively stable over the past 30 years.
Learn more at bit.ly/3LiSqOg.
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Awesome article (and photos of manakins!) just released today, written by @Bird_Sock on my recent paper with @arcolon14, @KevinFPBennett, @jcatchen, Jeff Brawn and Mike Braun in @journal_evo
Check it out: buff.ly/3L3sar0
#ornithology #manakin #TeamManacus
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Who’s going to #SMBE2024 in Puerto Vallarta? My talk is going to be about paleogenomic analysis of hair from cavities in the the teeth of lions featured in this (epic) movie 🦁come say hi! And share your presentation info so I can check out your talk! #TheGhostandTheDarkness
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The Beck Lab is hiring an assistant researcher/lab manager or two @KUbiology. Position starts this August in Lawrence KS. We are a 50/50 wet/dry lab and are looking for people with a wide range of skills. Must love mitochondria. Helpful if you love fish. employment.ku.edu/staff/2812…
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Out in MER!
𝐾𝑙𝑢𝑚𝑝𝑦: a new kmer-based tool by Gio Madrigal, @minhasbushra, & @jcatchen for evaluating and visualizing genome assemblies and sequence motifs using long-read sequencing data.
@WileyEcolEvol @iBioIllinois
Read More: buff.ly/3KiIIuq
Out today in Molecular Ecology Resources: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… (open access)
Congratulations to Gio on his first, first author paper and on publishing a useful tool for the community!
If you have a sequence that you love – a gene family, transposable element, regulatory feature – you probably spend a lot of time looking for it in different sets of sequence. If so, you might find our latest tool, Klumpy, useful. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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I’m excited to share my first dissertation chapter and first, first-authored article “Ongoing introgression of a secondary sexual plumage trait in a stable avian hybrid zone” being published with Evolution! doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpae0…
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Please share! My lab will be hiring 2-3 postdocs over the coming months to study the genetic basis of behavioral traits in darters using brain transcriptomics & population genomics. First ad is posted here: tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/… #behavior #popgen #evolution #neuroethology
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Our preprint exploring the role of Ne and gene expression on purifying selection in penguins has been recommended by @PCIEvolBiol! Approaches can be extended to many non-model organisms, including using expression bins as a proxy for selection coefficients evolbiol.peercommunityin.org…
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As Zam says, this is impressive work by shows @nanopore consensus call accuracy being better than illumina (with a deep learning caller, in bacteria) - I have huge COI (long established consultant for @nanopore and shareholder) but wanted to put this in short+long term context
Mandatory reading and surprising results from Michael Hall and colleagues - much better SNP/indel calling results from latest nanopore (beating illumina), and deep learning methods really doing well. Extremely thorough work
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On the back pages of BYTE from Dec 1995, there was an article on FreeBSD by Jordan Hubbard. Jordan is the co-founder of the FreeBSD project and later became the director of Unix technology at Apple
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We made the cover of @theAGA_org 🦁 Thank you @VelizarSim for these beautiful visualizations. See thread for free access to our article "Genomic analysis supports Cape Lion population connectivity prior to colonial eradication and extinction"
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A recent study, led by a team of researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, compared the genetic diversity and distinctiveness of Cape lions to modern lions across 13 African countries.
Learn more at bit.ly/3ULvoW5.
