Galen Martin

Excited to share our new preprint! 🍇🧬

We analyzed 639 genomes across 48 grape species to understand how hybridization drives adaptation.

• ~14% of average Vitis genome is introgressed

• Most parallel adaptations are shared via gene flow

• Two "hybrid species" are actually hybrid swarms

Wonderful (and humble) essay on mentorship by Brandon Gaut, on occasion of Brandon receiving the inaugural Mentorship Award of @genetics-gsa.bsky.social. I hope this will be widely read!

academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

HPLC (high-performance liquid computing)

Jay is the lead author on a fascinating paper I was involved in, about how male mimicry by female hummingbirds provides the first example of a type of signaling system that we predicted from theoretical principles over a decade ago.

This is infuriating.

And I believe it's due to anti-trans bias.

Are you at #PAG31 ? Like grapes and crop wild relatives? Come see my talk today in the Grape Genome Initiative workshop in Pacific H-I at 2:10PM!

A non-adaptive explanation for macroevolutionary patterns in the evolution of complex multicellulari... bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

We have a new preprint up. This one is a hypothesis paper, addressing one of the bigger unanswered questions that people have been asking me for the last 15 years: why has complex multicellularity only evolved in eukaryotes, never in prokaryotes? 1/33

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...