Evolutionary Biology at Uppsala University

Detailed analysis of fungal communities in Norway spruce logs reveals stochastic fine-scale patterns of species and detects lichen forming fungi without their photobionts Fungal ecologists have long been intrigued by the mechanisms behind the high fungal species richness in dead wood at small and large spatial scales. W…

Can #lichen forming fungi live without their #photobionts?

Recent work brings evidence in this regard. Read more here:
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Congrats toAnders Dalhberg, Silvia Pioli, Mari Jönsson, Florian Barbi, Göran Thor, @veera-t-nogerius.bsky.social!

Elevational range expansion of Betula pubescens may be slowed by lack of suitable mycorrhizal symbionts in alpine soils The elevational limit for trees is increasing worldwide due to global warming. The elevational range expansion of obligate ectomycorrhizal trees, such…

New research article investigates the role of #fungal communities in treeline expansion under global warming, finding that fewer #ectomycorrhizal fungi in alpine soils may limit the establishment of #Betula pubescens seedlings above the treeline.
With Eivind Ronold, @drhyfe.bsky.social & Ella Thoen

Short‐ and long‐read metabarcoding of Archaeorhizomycetes reveals high phylogenetic diversity structured by vegetation and climate Archaeorhizomycetes is a class of globally widespread soil-dwelling fungi, originally proposed to be associated with plant roots, but their ecology and nutritional mode are not clearly defined. To i...

Paper Alert @newphyt.bsky.social ! The diversity of #Archaeorhizomycetes the class of fungi commonly present in soil but little understood is finally revealed using long and short-read amplicons. Read more here
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Could a slab of ancient Australian rock rewrite everything we thought we knew about the origin of land-dwelling vertebrates? @perahlberg.bsky.social , @evobiouppsala.bsky.social @uuvertpalaeo.bsky.social , discusses: faculti.net/earliest-amn...
#natural sciences

YouTube video by SciLifeLab Genetics vs. Extinction: The Clouded Apollo Butterfly Genome

Featured researchers:
• @jhog.bsky.social (SciLifeLab/ @uu.se ‬/ @animecol-uu.bsky.social researcher)
• Niclas Backström, (@uu.se‬ / @evobiouppsala.bsky.social)

Watch ↓ 🌍🧪🧬
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#EvoSKy #EvoBio #Conservation #BioDiversity #BiodiversityCrisis

@ergabiodiv.bsky.social

New paper by @aleixpalahi.bsky.social et al in #molecularecology. They unravelled the history behind the establishment of multiple disjunct distributions in Vanessa butterflies, highlighting the importance of long-distance dispersal and introgression in the process.

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Paper link: https://academic.oup.com/evolut/article/79/4/510/7984342?login=true In this photograph you can see the butterflies mating'. Photo by Jesper Boman @jesperboman.bsky.social

PAPER ALERT! @jesperboman.bsky.social et al just published @journal-evo.bsky.social. Their work 'On the origin of an insular hybrid butterfly lineage'.
They came up with a #novel #method based on historical #recombination events (Fisher junctions) to understand this hybridisation event.

PAPER ALERT! Painted lady #Butterflies (Vanessa cardui) can fly long! They can even cross the ocean! Congrats for this great work @megansreich.bsky.social et al. !
@pnasnexus.org

Paper alert!
@JesperBoman et al bring empirical evidence for the idea that #chromosome number differences between taxa can contribute to #speciation!

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Paper alert! More evidence that sex-specific dominance of regulatory variants contributes to the maintenance of genetic variation in fitness mediated by sexually antagonistic selection in Seed Beetles!
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Paper alert! A #lichen is more than meets the eye!

The The Birgitta Sintring Foundation at Uppsala University Sweden offers attractive postdoc grants!
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Come and join us @UU_University Sweden!

PostDoc in Evolutionary/Conservation Genomics on Clouded Apollo butterfly 🦋 in @niclasbackstromgroup

#Popgen #conservation #butterfly

More details here 👇
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The Evolutionary Biology curling team from Uppsala University

Last week we celebrated the beginning of Christmas holiday with a #curling match!

JOB ALERT!
A fully funded PhD opportunity awaits at Uppsala University, Sweden, focusing on the evolution and biology of lichen photobionts.

The position will involved field work, molecular lab work and data analyses (from meta-omics to pop genetics).
#PhDposition

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