🧬🌍 Happy to see our latest paper out at @royalsocietypublishing.org We show how genetic risks in endangered species can stay hidden due to a time-lag between demographic collapse and genetic loss. Work led by amazing MSc students Xufen Liu and Ester Milesi #ConservationGenomics Pic by David Stowe - ThreadSky

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hernmoral.bsky.social • 52 days ago

🧬🌍 Happy to see our latest paper out at @royalsocietypublishing.org
We show how genetic risks in endangered species can stay hidden due to a time-lag between demographic collapse and genetic loss. Work led by amazing MSc students Xufen Liu and Ester Milesi #ConservationGenomics
Pic by David Stowe

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hernmoral.bsky.social•52 days ago

👀 Our study shows why single-time genetic assessments can miss the bigger picture. We sequenced genomes from 100 years ago and today to track change across time. We also used ecological modeling & genomic simulations to show how hidden genetic risks emerge only when viewed across time #Museomics

hernmoral.bsky.social•52 days ago

🌦️ Environmental decline is accelerating. Our species distribution models show regent honeyeater breeding habitats could vanish before 2040. This will likely compound the ongoing genomic erosion for the Regent honeyeaters

hernmoral.bsky.social•52 days ago

By modeling future genetic decline after bottlenecks, we show that harmful mutations can build up even when diversity looks fine leading to increased #ExtinctionRisk

hernmoral.bsky.social•52 days ago

📜 Just out in Proc. R. Soc. B: "Time-lagged genomic erosion and future environmental risks in a bird on the brink of extinction." Catch the full story here https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2024.2480 #ConservationGenomics

hernmoral.bsky.social•52 days ago

This was a fun collaboration with @hannahoish.bsky.social @noguesbravo.bsky.social and other not in BS
Xufen and Ester are on Lnk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/xfliu/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ester-milesi-a7985414a/

And I think this was a nice summary of the findings:
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-assumptions-genomic-diversity-illusions-population.html

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