The energy invested in animal reproduction is as much as 10 times greater than previously estimated, according to a new Science study.

The findings fundamentally challenge longstanding theories and biological models of animal growth and life histories. scim.ag/74l

Another home run from the #NearLab ...Chase Brownstein and coauthors reconstruct the radiation of deep-sea anglerfishes a synergy of changing mode of locomotion, sexual parasitism, and the loss of adaptive immunity

Anyone looking for a research tech? A *fabulous* undergrad is finishing up in my lab and looking for a 2 year position before grad school. She has experience with scRNA-seq, HCRs, and cell culture. Broad range of interests.
Send me a DM if you're interested. She is outstanding!

Here is a new platform to offer or ask specific skills!

NEW Publication: The promise and pitfalls of synteny in phylogenomics in PLOS Biology!!😄
Synteny—conserved genetic collinearity—is a (re)emerging marker for reconstructing the tree of life. Here, we outline the promise and potential pitfalls of synteny for phylogenetic inference

How important is your NSF Project Summary?

It is kind of important as its your first impression to your reviewers. Check out this blog post..

iosblog.nsfbio.com/2024/05/22/pro…

Pl spread the news: applications are open to the next version of the EMBO Practical Course on Developmental Biology, Quintay, Chile, January 2025.
biodesarrollo.unab.cl

The actin cytoskeleton plays multiple roles in structural colour formation in butterfly wing scales.
doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

Super stoked about this symposium next month at SSAR 2024! Thanks again to SSAR for sponsoring, my co-organizers (@danpaluh, Bonnie Kircher, Molly C. Womack), and all of the speakers! This is going to be awesome.

#SSAR2024 #Herpetology #EvoDevo

🚨Great news🚨 Our latest preprint is out on BioRxiv: 'Gene regulatory dynamics during the development of a paleopteran insect, the mayfly Cloeon dipterum.' biorxiv.org/content/10.110…. We used ATAC-seq to explore gene regulation in mayfly embryos. Curious? Read on! 🧵

Do you believe in hopeful monsters? Our recent study within our European Research Council (ERC) project SEA2LAND takes a deep dive into the origins of clitellate annelids by a punctual genomic catastrophe via chromosome shattering and rebirth biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Adaptive evolutionary trajectories in complexity: repeated transitions between unicellularity and differentiated multicellularity biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_evobio

Thanks to LSU and the Hunter family for creating this new Chair in Science Communication. I'm incredibly honored by this new title. #GeauxTigers

I am recruiting a PhD student
CAGToulouse in association with my ERC project anthropYXX. Palaeogenomics, bioinformatics and gender archaeology. More information here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/232339
Université de Toulouse UT3 Paul Sabatier CNRS Occitanie Ouest

Are you interested in using single-cell genomics to study evolution? Then you're in luck! I wrote this for you. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15…

Not only bacteria, also red algae, through a polysaccharide seems to induce multicellular development in the choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta. Nice to see the diversity of biochemical interactions that produce multicellular behaviour on #choanos . Congrats David Booth &

See a really nice News and Views about our paper by Jessica Tollkuhn
nature.com/articles/d4158…

Worm Weds!🪱New preprint- The story of clitellate annelid genome evolution (earthworms, leeches)

We found that they have extensive genome rearrangements, raising questions about how their gene regulation and development differs from other animals
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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You know it’s almost summer when you see The Gemma heading out to collect!

Our study on the genetic constraints to adaptation in the invasive brown anole (led by Dan G. Bock) is now officially published in the Molecular Ecology special issue on the motors and brakes of rapid evolution! There is an anole on the cover somewhere ...🦎