Markus Moest

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So very excited for the magnum opus of my #PhD to finally be out in @pnas.org. 🎉🎉 We demosntrate that mutualistic co-mimicking tropical butterflies not only converge in light microhabitat but, as a consequence, have also converged in visual system morphology! 1/n😀
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Excited to advertise a shared PhD position at KU Leuven (Belgium) and Mondsee (Austria) with @markusmoest.bsky.social on the genetic basis, plasticity and evolution of melanization in Daphnia from alpine lakes. Apply here: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Interested in a PhD connecting sensory ecology and evolutionary genetics? Applications are now open for a project on the Speciation Genomics of Eye Size Variation in Heliconius Butterflies in our lab at LMU Munich: www.evol.bio.lmu.de/research/mer... Please repost!

We are offering a PhD position in eco-evolutionary dynamics in our group at the Research Institute for Limnology in Mondsee, University of Innsbruck, Austria. Details can be found here: tinyurl.com/nep87mys Application review from April 30. Please share!
#ecology #evolution #Daphnia #mesocosm #PhD

Genealogical asymmetry under the isolation with migration model and a two-taxon test for gene flow Abstract. Methods for detecting gene flow between populations often rely on asymmetry in the average length of particular genealogical branches, with the A

My and Derek Setter's work on gene flow is now published in the latest issue of Genetics. We show that it is possible to detect past gene flow between two populations by summarising the asymmetry in pop-specific external branch lengths. 1/2
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I am looking for a PhD student to start in fall of 2025 at MSU. Potential topics include trait-based approaches to plankton community resilience, temperature effects on communities, harmful algal blooms and many others. Please get in touch if interested. More info: www.kl-lab.group.

Hybrid adaptation is hampered by Haldane’s sieve - Nature Communications Hybrids have complex genomes that influence their adaptive potential. This study reveals that yeast hybrids adapt slower than their parental species in a new environment, primarily due to a reduced ra...

For her PhD work, Carla Bautista in our group discovered that yeast hybrids adapted slower to stressful conditions, and she figured out why. See what she found here. #evolution www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The newly established Core Facility for Genomics at the University of Oldenburg is looking for a bioinformatician! Please apply / or spread! (3 years + possibility of permanency)
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Some research news: we finally uploaded the latest D. galeata genome version (Chr. level), here www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/... !
Corresponding preprint/pub upcoming, get in touch if you have questions! With me or @markusmoest.bsky.social, project leader is former PhD student Jana Nickel, not on BS

Our new study 'Late Pleistocene stickleback environmental genomes reveal the chronology of freshwater adaptation' is now available open access online.

www.cell.com/current-biol...

Hi Eryn! Thanks for doing this!

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A single giant cell at the origin of an evolutionary innovation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are also currently advertising a permanent position for a lab technician (100%)!!!
Apply here: tinyurl.com/mpjp8h6d
English job ad here: tinyurl.com/ybvpwjyb

It is still possible to apply for this 3-yrs Postdoc position! 👇

PhD opportunity in my group at UiO on adaptation to shifting temperatures in house sparrows. Looking for candidates interested in combining evolutionary genomics and ecological approaches! Please share! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

We are hiring! 3-yrs Postdoc position in our group at the Research Institute for Limnology, Mondsee, University of Innsbruck. Evolutionary ecology, genomics, invasive species and global change! Find more details here: tinyurl.com/ys9a82fm For Qs, please just contact me directly. Please share widely!

(thread) New butterfly Hox paper out
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
I want to highlight the main part on Hox "insulation"

How do butterflies forewings differ from hindwings in patterns and shape? Rare spontaneous mutants show patches of forewing transformed into hindwing identities? How is that possible?

Our new study on the ecological aftermath of mass mortality event with my good colleagues Simon Tye (UARK), Sam Fey (Reed College), and JP Gibert (Duke University) is out today in Nature. Read all about it here: rdcu.be/dwfcW
 
We also had a nice Research Briefing! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Just how important is intra-specific diversity for ecosystem functioning?

Our paper showing how to figure out is now published in Ecology #OpenAccess

"Quantifying interspecific and intraspecific diversity effects on ecosystem functioning"

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Does anyone have Gambusia affinis males and females in lab and the ability to send us morphometric pictures of 5 of each? We need some outgroup measurements for revisions of a paper. Would appreciate any leads! 🙏