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Well if that's the game of the game...here's a shot of Fulgora lanternaria from a recent trip to Costa Rica.

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It's finally out! This paper took quite a while but I'm so excited to share now! For anyone who studies sex chromosomes, take note: we found a rare "slower X"! (dN/dS_X < dN/dS_Autos) 👀

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Re-upping this thread on PGE in mealybugs because the results are finally published in Molecular Ecology: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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In full sincerity, now is the moment to emphasize that undoing the changes implemented by DOGE is good for America, and increasing investment into NASA, NSF, NIH and other agencies will keep Elon from profiting off taxpayers.

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How do you differentiate species when the most visible lifestage is a featureless brown rugby ball? You sequence it and place it with phylogenomics! Read all about this and the evolutionary genetics of a moth-infecting apicomplexan #parasite in our pre-print here: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

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Proposed cut to NSF Biology budget is 70%. 70%. Seventy. Call your senators & reps nonstop. Give them numbers on NSF impact for state/district. tableau.external.nsf.gov/views/NSFbyN... explain this will decimate the economy if their districts, especially if it has a major research univ. 🧪

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Some more mantidfly mania for #WorldBiodiversityDay These two were photographed in Costa Rica, where my lab is currently doing fieldwork (more on that soon)!

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Officially (re-)annoucing the Tree of Sex! Read all about it in JEB below!

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This is far from the most salient problem with the new "dire wolves," but while we're all dogpiling this story...they couldn't even name the female pup Arya or Sansa? They went with the title (not even name) of the war crimes dragon lady...absolute hacks

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Excited to be part of this project! Follow the starter pack for more great repro evo researchers!

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The National Science Foundation benefits communities in every state.

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Roche's SBX sequencing by expansion - preprint out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Time to update my sequencing technologies lecture!

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I am thrilled to share our new review on holocentric chromosomes. It was a lot of fun to write it together with Ines Drinnenberg! Same but different: Centromere regulations in holocentric insects and plants doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

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Excited to announce another genome preprint! This one is first-authored by my first master's student, Tracy! We generated a chromosome level genome for the invasive hibiscus mealybug, a citrus crop pest. Thanks to coauthors @lmdiepenbrock.bsky.social @kkbugtime.bsky.social tinyurl.com/5n8h42r6

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People need to grasp that these chaotic funding cuts aren't coming from a desire to reign in federal spending or balance budgets. They are coming from religious extremists who see science- and other forms of honest, evidence-based epistemology- as a direct threat to their political power.

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If all extant cephalopods have a single origin Z chromosome, then did ammonites use that sex determination system as well? Why do all Z chromosome systems seem to date back to the Mesozoic?😮

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It's finally out! The long-awaited Ross lab B chromosome paper! Check it out for more weird genetics: a selfish chromosome found in only some populations of mealybugs and in variable copy number! My old labmate Kamil has a good breakdown below!

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#postdoc job #Scotland elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #genome #evolution

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Per an NIH source: “Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”

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The NSF and NIH stuff is the kind of lower-salience thing where it is probably more useful to contact your representative and let them know people are pissed about this, people who vote.

submitted 138 days ago • 2 comments

Reposting because the final version finally came out and there are way more people on the site now. To you it might just be a genome note, to me it's the first fully Mongue lab paper (feat. @erincpow.bsky.social and @kkbugtime.bsky.social )! A #newPI milestone! academic.oup.com/g3journal/ar...

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Recent studies have revealed unexpected Y chromosome diversity and suggest that the Y may play a big role in evolution. @vdbijl.bsky.social and I wrote this perspective for @evolletters.bsky.social with a few suggestions and requests. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan... Figs by www.jacelyndesigns.com

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Hi -omics friends, I'm looking for some #sequencing recommendations: what's your favorite alternative to Novogene for doing Illumina WGS of non-model critters? (Bonus points if it's not a "Chinese company" and can get through my state's new restrictions on who we can do business with 🙃)

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Wow, lots of new followers this week! To celebrate and (re)introduce myself, I want to share one of the weird reproductive systems my lab works on: Paternal Genome Elimination in mealybugs. If you have house plants, maybe you know these waxy little pests already. But do you know their genetics? 1/n

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