Genotyping the balanced lethal system in newts benwielstra.com/2025/06/21/t...

Brief post on my website introducing our scientists' warning on genetic pollution benwielstra.com/2025/05/29/a...

New paper on the Near Eastern Neurergus newts benwielstra.com/2025/06/15/s...

Mendelian inheritance with a deadly twist. We use the bizarre balanced lethal system in Triturus newts in our course Evolutionary Biology 2 to teach basic principles of natural selection and genetic linkage. benwielstra.com/2025/06/13/t...

Patrones de diversidad genómica en el sapo partero común: perspectivas filogeográficas y de conservación. Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1... @chrisdufresnes.bsky.social @benwielstra.bsky.social @

New smooth newt paper: benwielstra.com/2025/01/01/u...

𝘛𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘶𝘴 newts are wild! Great talk by @benwielstra.bsky.social at @unituebingen.bsky.social EvE seminar. Hybridization and balanced lethal systems 😮🧬

New banded newt paper

Now @benwielstra.bsky.social and co have worked out how this situation came about Around 24 million years ago, when paired chromosomes were swapping bits of DNA during meiosis, one huge chunk of chromosome 1 got transferred instead of swapped www.newscientist.com/article/2455...