Pajic, @gokcumenlab.bsky.social @spit-lab.bsky.social et al. explored the evolution of saliva-related SCPP genes, observing extensive diversification of SCPP genes within mammals, driven by gene duplications and losses. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf165 #genome #evolution #primates

And finally formatted :) Complex Genomic Landscape of Inversion Polymorphism in Europe's Most Destructive Forest Pest academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-... photo credit: Gilles San Martin

Science to read for your weekend: first up: Urban Coyotes are evolving to handle more human foods. #UrbanEcology 🧪 🐕 source.washu.edu/2025/01/coyo... academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...

Cool new work! Some lineages experiencing ancient whole-genome duplications seem to hold on to their duplicate genes for a really long time & keep accumulating homoeologous exchange events! Runs counter to early models where gene loss is expected to be rapid post-WGD academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...

This was a fun little paper with Rachel Bainbridge where we discovered that Xenopus laevis, a model organism in fertilization research, lacks the gene for PLCZ1, an enzyme previously thought to be essential for fertilization. 🧪 academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...

In Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, multicellularity evolved under predation but not settling selection. Only certain genotypes gave rise to multicellular forms, showing both deterministic and random factors shape this transition. academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...

9/9 🧵In sum: Parasitic rotifers have shed: 🔹85% of miRNA families 🔹50% core protein-coding genes 🔹Key morphological structures But they gain new traits for parasitism. This is degressive evolution—consistent with Dollo’s Law. 📖 Read the full paper: academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...

Can we use NGS data for pooled strain phenotyping & association mapping as a tool for the genetic dissection of trait variation in BSL3 fungi? Why yes we can. academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...

New accepted manuscript (preprint) on the evolution, phylogenetic types, expression, and fxns of a male-killing gene from a phage in a common endosymbiont of animals. Credit to many lab coauthors and led by Dr. Emilie Lefoulon. Lots of fun and insights in this one. academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...

@okerstenscience.bsky.social @kjetillsj.bsky.social @sanneboessenkool.bsky.social et al. investigate adaptive divergence between puffin subspecies from the Arctic - indicating the High Arctic subspecies harbors unique genetic diversity. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf162 #genome #evolution

Integrative genotyping and analysis of canine structural variation using long-read and short-read data. #DogGenetics #StructuralVariants #LongRead #SequenceData @genomebiolevol.bsky.social academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...

Hospodářská, @petrnguyen.bsky.social et al. investigated genome size and karyotype in Polyommatus and Lysandra butterflies, rejecting polyploidy to confirm karyotypic diversification via chromosome fragmentation in Polyommatinae butterflies. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf157 #genome #evolution

Angst, Ebert & Fields investigated variation in genetic and epigenetic architectures in the genomes of major microsporidia clades, revealing high variation among microsporidia, despite all of them adapting to a parasitic lifestyle. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf166 #genome #evolution

@nicolasdussex.bsky.social et al. investigate the genomic basis of adaptation in the Svalbard reindeer, an endemic subspecies that colonized the High Arctic ~7,000 years ago, adapting to extreme cold, day length changes, and resource scarcity. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf160 #genome #evolution

Meng gave such a great talk, and her work highlights the power of using distantly related species to really interrogate common evolutionary forces shaping variation in nature academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

The recent GBE Review on approaches to phylogenetic genotype to phenotype mapping is the focus of a new Highlight. Highlight: Leveraging Phylogenomics to Uncover the Loci of Repeated Evolution 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf164 #genome #evolution #phylogenetics

The September cover of Genome Biology and Evolution features the work of Weng et al., who studied the dietary evolution of moth and butterfly larvae. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf156 #genome #evolution #lepidoptera

France et al. fail to find evidence for an ancient Y-chromosome origin for the Triturus balanced lethal system (a non-recombining regions that leads to half of the progeny dying before hatching). 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf155 #genome #evolution #amphibians

I'm very excited to have the revised version of this paper out in the world. A big thank you to the reviewers who's feedback helped us refine our ideas and discussions of the exciting new world of PhyloG2P! @tasbarb.bsky.social @maddieejames.bsky.social

In a new Review article in GBE, @scientific-arlie.bsky.social et al delve into the growing field of phylogenetic genotype to phenotype mapping (PhyloG2P), discussing advances and future directions for using phylogenomic data to map traits to genomes 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf150 #genome #evolution

Thank you @claudiaalcar.bsky.social for contributing to the special section in structural phylogenetics @genomebiolevol.bsky.social conserved motifs across different protein folds reveal deep evolutionary relationships. Folds don’t just mutate, they swap domains, permute, lose/gain motifs.

Versoza, Jensen & @susanneppfeifer.bsky.social use WGS data from 14 aye-ayes, detecting >1k autosomal structural variants, providing the first overview into the landscape of structural variation in this primate species. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf167 #genome #evolution

Cridland et al. investigate male reproductive tract transcriptomes from 3 Drosophila species, finding that despite adaptive parallelism among species, selection responses are not well predicted by relatedness or similar ecologies 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf161 #genome #evolution #drosophila

Happy to share Piecing Together the History of Protein Folds From a Fragmented Evolutionary Record 🧪 It appears as part of a Special Section in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social organized by @cpuentelelievre.bsky.social @proteinmechanic.bsky.social and J. Douglas doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...

This week, we hit the mark of 3,000 followers on our Bluesky account! Thank you to the community of researchers who follow us! #genome #evolution #science #biology #societyjournal

So proud to see my cohort-mate’s paper up!

Zhao, Quinteros & Machado describe unusually large and continuous pericentromeric transposable element-rich regions in all chromosomes of the genome of a Neotropical fig wasp, 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf158 #genome #evolution #TEsky

Hasan et al. investigated methods for generating weighted quartets and assessed their impact on species tree inference, providing evidence that methods like wQFM can be more accurate than the popular ASTRAL. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf159 #genome #evoluion #phylogenetics

We are proud to present the new logo of Genome Biology and Evolution! 🙌 Our new face reflects our continued commitment to serving the fields of genomics and evolutionary biology as a society journal belonging to @official-smbe.bsky.social #genome #evolution #science #biology #societyjournal

Fantastic review on methodological developments in protein structural phylogenetics academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

Man I really like these guys, Chinese suckers Myxocyprinus asiaticus. They change as they become adults and get too big for any tank I'll have for the foreseeable future. I was involved in the genome paper on them. academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

In a new GBE Review, @cpuentelelievre.bsky.social @proteinmechanic.bsky.social & J. Douglas give an overview on protein structural phylogenetics, how to obtain evolutionary insights from structural data, and key applications and future directions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf139 #genome #evolution

#structuralphylogenetics #strphy #3di

Thrilled to see this out! Thank you for the shout out @chercheurjuteux.com!

Beautiful work from @claudiaalcar.bsky.social, congrats! Piecing Together the History of Protein Folds From a Fragmented Evolutionary Record academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

Presence of DNA transposons in the breakpoints of the inverted genotype in Atlantic cod - perhaps also the case for many other species? Great to see this finally out academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

Short tandem repeats driving adaptation in a changing environment - population genomics of Atlantic puffin - finally out 😀https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/doi/10.1093/gbe/evaf162/8237912

Third Era of Phylogenetics! 1️⃣ Era 1: Morphology 🦴 2️⃣ Era 2: Sequences 🧬 3️⃣ Era 3: 3D Structures ⚛️ Solving deep evolutionary puzzles like never before. Our new review in GBE explores what's next in #phylogenetics academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #structuralbiology #evolution #AlphaFold #SciSky

Hidden Markov Model-Based Prokaryotic Genome Space Mining Reveals the Widespread Pervasiveness of Complex I and Its Potential Evolutionary Scheme url: academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

New Perspective on the Arrival of the Eastern Mediterranean Genetic Influx in Central Italy Before the Onset of the Roman Empire url: academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

If you’re after more on structural phylogenetics, you’re in luck. Check out this review that came out the other day. Lots of awesome 3Di work coming from @cpuentelelievre.bsky.social @proteinmechanic.bsky.social @jordandouglas academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

New paper with @spit-lab.bsky.social @genomebiolevol.bsky.social - Bottom-line: genes that encode secreted saliva genes evolve pretty fast and gene duplications/deletions are mostly the culprit. academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...

Watanabe et al. reconstruct the biogeographic history of the Hondo red fox, a fox subspecies that evolved within the Japanese Archipelago, with demographic dynamics revealing independent trajectories on each island following the Last Glacial. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf152 #genome #evolution

Super fun collaboration with Diana Percy and Patrick Degnan. #symbiosis #genome evolution #psyllids #Bvitamins

The culmination of a very long project in which I played a small role on this as a summer intern at TIFR! Special thanks to @amiteshanand.bsky.social for giving me a shot at working on this. Not only did I learn a lot, we found some very cool stuff 😊

In a new Letter, @claudiaalcar.bsky.social analyses structural divergence in folds that contain the β-hammerhead motif, suggesting that βHMs are conserved structural features inherited from ancestral proteins. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf148 #genome #evolution #proteins

@robinaraya.bsky.social @naturalselection.bsky.social @kjetillsj.bsky.social et al. investigate TEs in four large inversions in Atlantic cod - TEs accumulate in breakpoints, suggesting they drive inversions through ectopic recombination. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf131 #genome #evolution #TEsky

Our recent article on the regulatory evolution of dosage-sensitive genes by @alanrice.ie et al. is the focus of a new Highlight. Highlight: Dosage-Sensitive Genes “Thread the Needle” of Selection 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf144 #genome #evolution #geneexpression

Cunha‬, @tatianattorres.bsky.social et al. present the first genome assembly and annotation for Chrysomya bezziana, a parasitic blowfly that causes myiasis. The assembly has a size of 472 Mb, N50 of 1.8 Mb, and 98.4% of BUSCO single-copy genes. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf121 #genome #evolution

A. Shirsath, @amiteshanand.bsky.social et al. analyzed the prokaryotic genome space to trace the distribution of 14 core C-I or NADH-quinone oxidoreductase subunits. Authors share these results on prokcomplexone.streamlit.app 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... #genome #evolution #microbesky