Corentin Jouault

Blattodeology (YES, COCKROACHES) with Dr. Dominic Evangelista — alie ward Dazzling colors. Remote habitats. Gentle parenting. Fantastic genitalia. And yeah, swimming through sewers to surprise you. It’s cockroaches and I promise you will find something to love about them in...

WE GOT COCKROACHES.

Learn to love them -- I promise -- with #Blattodeologist Dr. Dominic Evangelista.

STUNNING emerald green ones, glowing roaches, teeny ones that ride flying ants, clean-up helpers, and medical mysteries.

They just want love & garbage. 🖤

www.alieward.com/ologies/blat...

Earth history and trait innovation drive the global radiation of modern #toads #ProcB #OpenAccess #Evolution royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades - Nature Ecology & Evolution The interplay between speciation and extinction rates shapes clade diversity dynamics. Using a novel phylogenetic model that includes living and fossil lineages, the authors estimate speciation and ex...

Excited to share our new paper where we find that the rise, decline and fall of clades is not explained by the usual suspects (diversity-dependence, ecological opportunities) but rather by species' insidious loss of macroevolutionary fitness: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3

🚨 New paper! The first Cixiidae from the Jinju Formation (Republic of Korea) is now formally described!
📄 The first cixiid planthopper (Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) from the Lower Cretaceous Jinju Formation (Republic of Korea)
doi.org/10.1016/j.as...

@morethanadodo.bsky.social @isyeb.mnhn.fr @isyebsp.mnhn.fr

The only thing I really expect from academia is to have fun. 🎉
This paper is pure fun: it started with a BBQ brainstorming, turned into a project with friends, and ended with a super-talented friend making the cover photo. What a combo! 🔥📚📸
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
@mat-bod-evo-23.bsky.social

Bayesian modelling of the fossil record enlightens the evolutionary history of Hemiptera | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Hemiptera, the fifth most diverse insect order, are characterized by their high diversity in deep time, with 145 known extinct families. However, the precise timing of the origin of Hemiptera lineages...

Plus de 300 millions d’années que les #cigales nous cassent les oreilles !!!

Jolie étude chapeautée par @cocomacro.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

In Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 292(2054)20251133 #OpenAccess
"Bayesian modelling of the fossil record enlightens the evolutionary history of Hemiptera"
#bayésienBrownianBridge
@mat-bod-evo-23.bsky.social ., Peng,A., Nel,A.
@isyeb.mnhn.fr et al.
➡️ doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Sorting of ancestral polymorphism and its impact on morphological phylogenetics and macroevolution Abstract. Intraspecific phenotypic variation provides the basic substrate upon which the evolutionary processes that give rise to morphological innovation,

Excited to share a new paper! "Sorting of ancestral polymorphism and its impact on morphological phylogenetics and macroevolution". Part of some work I've been doing on modelling the evolution of polymorphic traits in fossil echinoderms.

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One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...

The actual research article is #openaccess and free to read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Exciting find from last year’s Maliau Basin (Borneo) collections—a specimen of the rare ant genus Ishakidris! 🐜✨

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying!

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Paru dans #Annales_de_la_Société_entomologique_de_France
(N.S) 1-7 #Full_Access
"Le troisième Asilidae (Diptera : Asiloidea) de l’ambre du Kachin du Crétacé moyen"
Miquel,M., Jouault,C., Huang,D., & Nel,A. @isyeb.mnhn.fr
#n.gen. #n.sp.
#assassin_fly #taxonomy #diversity
🪰 doi.org/10.1080/0037...

Thrilled to see my first PhD paper finally out in @pnas.org !!!
We investigated the macroevolutionary dynamics of South American #Mammals across the Eocene-Oligocene Transition (~34 millions of years ago) 🦥❄️

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Darwin Tree of Life Impact Assessment This form is used to share information within DToL about case studies, ongoing research, and funding awards that demonstrate the impact the Darwin Tree of Life consortium project has had on Global and...

Do you use Darwin Tree of Life (DToL) genomes for your work or grant applications? If so, can you please fill out this form? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We are gathering info on how DToL genomes are used. It will help us raise money to continue producing publicly available high-quality genomes.

Front view of an orange/brown ant. It has large “angry” eyes like that of a wasp on its triangular head and slender, toothed mandibles. It has long antennae spread sideways. It has a thorax shaped like a stubby spoon (with the head being the front part) and a short bulbous abdomen.

Here’s a second, ridiculous litter monster ant (Myrmoteras sp.) from leaf litter samples in a secondary forest in Borneo, this time a much better photo. It has eyes which look like they might cry any time soon…

Phylogenetic history and temperature adaptation contribute to structural and functional stability of proteins in marine mollusks - Communications Biology A comparative analysis between the phylogenetic relationships and functional as well as structural stabilities at protein and mRNA levels of cytosolic malate dehydrogenase orthologs of 41 marine mollu...

New paper in @commsbio.bsky.social using @gbif.org mediated data:

Phylogenetic history and temperature adaptation contribute to structural and functional stability of proteins in marine mollusks

#CiteTheDOI: ❌

https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-07881-8

Do you love #fossil plants? Are you searching for a #PhD position? I am recruiting a doctoral student to join my group at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt/M! Deadline on the 11th of May
#paleobotany #paleontology #plants #botany

www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc...

Bayesian Selection of Relaxed-Clock Models: Distinguishing between Independent and Autocorrelated Rates Abstract. In Bayesian molecular-clock dating of species divergences, rate models are used to construct the prior on the molecular evolutionary rates for br

Very interesting read!

A chronogram of the ant tribe Myrmicini, showing the disparity of divergence dates between alternate placements of the fossil species †Manica andrannae

🐜🐜🐜Fans of Myrmicinae! New paper in Syst Biol in collaboration with C. Rabeling🐜🐜🐜

doi.org/10.1093/sysb...

Une nouvelle espèce de tatou découverte en Guyane On connait actuellement une vingtaine d'espèces de tatous, ces mammifères emblématiques de l’Amérique du Sud. La plus répandue aurait été le tatou à neuf bandes, qui s'est révélée être en réalité un g...

Notre article sur la délimitation des espèces de tatous du genre Dasypus est désormais publié dans Systematic Biology (doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syae027) officialisant ainsi le tatou à long museau de Guyane (Dasypus guianensis) comme une nouvelle espèce endémique du plateau des Guyanes

In @currentbiology.bsky.social #OpenAccess
"The radiation of Hymenoptera illuminated by Bayesian inferences from the fossil record"
By @cocomacro.bsky.social @morethanadodo.bsky.social Legendre, F. @isyeb.mnhn.fr et al.
#flowering_plants #macroevolution #paleoenvironment
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Figure 2 from Jouault et al. in Current Biology. The figure consists of 4 x 3 graphs in which each row shows the diversification (origination, extinction, net diversification, and diversity) history of a group of hymenoptera. Emphasis is put on the effect that the rise of angiosperms and the KPg mass extinction event have had on the complex histories of hymenoptera, showing sharp increases in diversity after the K/Pg

Cool paper by @cocomacro.bsky.social et al. showing the diverse diversification history of hymenoptera in the fossil record!

doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

#macroevolution #evolution #paleobiology @morethanadodo.bsky.social

Out now in @pnas.org , we study the recovery dynamics of biodiversity across the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction. We quantify how species-area relationships – how diversity scales with geographic area – have changed for dinosaurs, mammals and others: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

So excited to see this paper finally out! Part of the Paleobiology 50th anniversary issue, we cover the history of the field, morphometrics, morphospaces, new approaches to evolutionary models & disparity, incorporating climate, the importance of fossils & more. Check it out! doi.org/10.1017/pab....

Phyloformer is finally published in MBE! 🎉

academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...

The thread below provides a summary of our neural network for likelihood-free phylogenetic reconstruction.

Almost there!
👉Plant pollination by insects from the Cretaceous ambers.
PhD dissertation by Constanza Peña-Kairath in one week!
@irbio-ub.bsky.social @amberia-team.bsky.social

📅 19th of March
⏰ 15:00 hours
📍Facultat Ciències de la Terra, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

Thinking about flipping your journal to Diamond OA? Check out this guide from the Netherlands' Diamond Expertise Centre buff.ly/0lVMMq2 FYI, PCI is mentioned there too 😉 #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing

The deep sea, especially hadal zones, characterized by high-hydrostatic pressure, low temperatures, and near-total darkness, present some of the most challenging environments for life on Earth. However, teleost fish have successfully colonized these extreme habitats through complex adaptations. We generated genome assemblies of 12 species, including 11 deep-sea fishes. Our findings reconstructed the teleost deep-sea colonization history and revealed the overall impact of the deep-sea environment on fishes. Interestingly, our results question the previously assumed linear correlation between trimethylamine oxide (TMAO) content and depth. By contrast, we observed a convergent aa replacement in the rtf1 gene in most deep-sea fishes under 3,000 m, and in vitro experiments suggest that this mutation can influence transcriptional efficiency, which is likely to be advantageous in the deep-sea environment. Moreover, our study underlines the pervasive impact of human activities, as we detected the presence of persistent organic pollutants in species from the Mariana Trench.

Evolution and genetic adaptation of fishes to the deep sea

Xu et al. 2025 Cell

Generated genome assemblies of 11 deep-sea species ... found pervasive impact of human activities, including presence of persistent organic pollutants in species from the Mariana Trench

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Hemiptera, the fifth most diverse insect order, have often been overlooked in macroevolutionary studies. In this study, the authors analyse its fossil record and show that global flora changes through time shaped the evolution of hemipteran insects.

www.nature.com/articles/s42...