Lukas Musher

The biogeographic and genomic signatures of dynamic river networks for terrestrial species in Amazonia Amazonia contains Earth's largest freshwater basin, largest contiguous stretch of tropical forest, and most species-rich terrestrial biota on Earth. Rivers are key geographic features that drive dive...

My new paper on Amazonian biogeography and genomics is out in early view in Biological Reviews!

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Great question!

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Whole-genome phylogenomics of the tinamous (Aves: Tinamidae): comparing gene tree estimation error b... bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

We have a new preprint in the whole-genome phylogenomics of tinamous! We compare gene tree estimation error for protein-coding and ultraconserved elements and find these two data types behave quite differently. Also a new species! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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3 articles, Oct 30

Women remain underrepresented in academia www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Toxic workplaces are main reason women leave academic jobs www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Women faculty feel pushed from academia by poor workplace climate
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Women more likely to leave academia due to work place climate than due to work family conflict.

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Hermit crab (Pagurus prideaux) on the substrate looking up at you. Instead of a shell it is covered in an orange anemone (Calliactis palliata) with pink spots. Coming off that are neon pink silly strings, which are the anemone's tentacles! Photo by Darryl Meyer https://www.flickr.com/photos/27988477@N02/3992801991/in/photostream/

Hermit crab (Sympagurus dofleini) in the deep sea. It is facing to the side, with a purple striped sea anemone (Stylobates) covering its posterior, with the anemone's tentacles facing down. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/waf/okeanos-animal-guide/Paguroidea015.html

4 different views of the carcinoecium produced by the anemone Stylobates aeneus, which look exactly like a snail shell. But they are not. Image by Chong Chen https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10207492582127068&set=a.10200283324540134&type=3

Did you think hermit crabs always live in snail shells? 🧪🦀

Some deep sea hermit species live symbiotically with anemones that DISSOLVE the shell and SECRETE a new one ("carcinoecium") made of chitin! The carcinoecium has evolved at least 3 times! Photo credits in alt text. @megdaly.bsky.social

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Hi folks! I’m an evolutionary biologist who studies speciation, genomics, and biogeography of birds and their ectoparasites. I’m currently a postdoc at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University.

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I am!

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With @thamnobravo.bsky.social and @rafamarcondes.bsky.social along with Greg Thom, Glaucia Del-Rio, and Robb Brummfield.

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Our paper on how phylogeographic signal covaries with recombination and selection landscapes out in Systematic Biology! Read about how extrinsic factors like river capture interact with genomic processes to drive diversification of an Amazonian bird here: academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

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