Excited to be part of the amazing team behind our upcoming symposium on Sex Evolution at #SMBE2026! 🔹 Daniel Jeffries 🔹 Paul Jay 🔹 @sphaeromeria.bsky.social 🔹 @astridboehne.bsky.social 🔹 @cbenvenuto.bsky.social Join us in Copenhagen for cutting-edge discussions on #sex #evolution

🔬 Uncovering the mechanisms of sex chromosome dosage compensation in skinks! 🦎 🧬 Our latest collaborative study on how a lizard species with an extraordinary ability to change sexual phenotype maintains genomic balance. 👇 rdcu.be/eVjqW

🎯Excited to share our new collaborative paper in Mol Ecol - Beautifully lead by @marta-fb.bsky.social & @coreykirkland.bsky.social - Exploring the fascinating evolutionary story of the waterbuck, shaped by climate and unique chromosome changes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Just one week left to submit your abstract for our symposium on eco-evolutionary dynamics of #sexualselection and #sexualconflict at @ece2026tours.bsky.social ! Join us in beautiful Tours, France, 29 June – 3 July 2026!

Organisers - @aruizherrera.bsky.social | @ibb-uab.bsky.social - Daniel Jeffries | University of Bern - Paul Jay | Universite Grenoble Alpes - @sphaeromeria.bsky.social | @ibb-botanic.bsky.social - @astridboehne.bsky.social | @leibnizlib.bsky.social - @cbenvenuto.bsky.social | @salforduni.bsky.social

Invited Speaker - Nicole Valenzuela | @iastateresearch.bsky.social

SMBE2026 Symposium 9 | New frontiers in sex evolution: evolutionary patterns and innovations 📨 Abstract submission smbe2026.org/abstracts 📋 Programme details smbe2026.org/programme #SMBE2026

I've written about this reproductive system, the mix of males and hermaphrodites without pure females (called androdioecy) before, here: academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...

What's in a name? 🐙🦑 @ideaspermatheca.bsky.social @treeofsex.bsky.social

My latest paper, Cryptic female choice can maintain reproductive isolation, with @servedio.bsky.social and Suzanne Alonzo is now out in the October issue of @journal-evo.bsky.social ! (1/3) academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...

Does #SexualSelection fuel #Speciation? Our new #meta-analysis of comparative studies finds support for a positive relationship, but the rather moderate global effect suggests it’s not necessarily a dominant force. doi.org/10.1093/evle...

This is a really interesting story. Microsporidia have genome architecture as no other creatures! Congrats @amjadkhalaf.bsky.social

Join our online course on Sex Chromosome Evolution (6–10 Oct) with @astridboehne.bsky.social & @idarolti.bsky.social to gain hands-on experience in genomic and transcriptomic analyses. www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... #SexChromosomes #GenomeEvolution #Transcriptomics #ComparativeGenomics

I'm very happy to share that our paper describing the evolution of sex chromosomes in brown algae is out!🎉 This project was a long journey, but it came together into a nice story 🧬 🌊 Grateful to everyone who helped along the way!

Family photo of the 2025 Workshop of the @treeofsex.bsky.social ! Thanks everyone for attending and see you soon!

Great work by @aruizherrera.bsky.social's lab! Amazing paper and have you see the graphical abstract? Happy reading!

This is insane! The Atlas blue butterfly has 227 pairs of autosomes and four sex chromosomes, the highest recorded chromosome number in non-polyploid Metazoa!!!! See below!🦋

Hot from the press: XX/XY sex determination in Nautilus (unique among cephalopods)!!!! 🐙

The day 2 of the #TreeOfSex annual workshop started with a great talk by @yannguiguen.bsky.social about B chromosomes and their role in sex determination in fish. Next up, Sònia Garcia is giving an update on the works of the Literature team.

Tree of Sex annual workshop started today. It will be two days packed with reproductive biology.

Good to see some of our US-based ToS members at #Evol2025! If you're at the meeting and interested or just curious about the project, say hi to @ajmongue.bsky.social @nicolevalenzuela.bsky.social @ideaspermatheca.bsky.social @emistasis.bsky.social, Mike White or Louise Heitzmann!

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

As work ramps up, we've created a Starter pack to follow members of the consortium. go.bsky.app/QjiXdsc Please comment below to be added!

Hi folks, this is the official Tree of Sex account. We are an open consortium of reproductive scientists with the aim to catalogue reproductive knowledge across Eukaryota. You can be part of it too: treeofsex.sanger.ac.uk

The @treeofsex.bsky.social is working on this! 🤞🏽