Leah Houri-Zeevi

Thanks Olivia!!!

A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult Aedes aegypti mosquito A comprehensive single-nucleus RNA-seq atlas of >367,000 nuclei from male and female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes reveals sexual dimorphism in sensory systems and brain cell types and widespread co-expres...

🦟 We've just published the world's first head-to-toe single-cell atlas of the Aedes aegypti mosquito in @cp-cell.bsky.social!
The #MosquitoCellAtlas maps 69 cell types across 19 tissues, revealing surprising biology. Read it here:
shorturl.at/dJWT3

Congratulations MCAs!!! What a spectacular achievement ✨

A real game-changer for the mosquito community - all packed in a beautiful paper!!!!

Thanks so much Rory! 🎉

Thanks a lot Oded!!! 🥂

The lock and key system that we discovered evolves rapidly in the wild because of the species that cheat it (thank you 𝘈𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘴) - and creates a rich model for understanding how to encode a recognition system, adapt it when under pressure, and generally:
how to change a nervous system.

A rapidly evolving female-controlled lock-and-key mechanism determines Aedes mosquito mating success Houri-Zeevi et al. uncover a lock-and-key mating system in mosquitoes, where females control mating through genital responses to rapidly evolving male structures. Males of the invasive Asian tiger mos...

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

Many thanks to the amazing team that made the weird fun (but not the fun weird): Madison Walker,
@jacoporazzauti.bsky.social, Anurag Sharma, Amalia Pasolli, and the almighty @leslievosshall.bsky.social

The male genitalia of an 𝘈𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘴 mosquito

What does mating look like when you only have a single shot at getting it right?

Very excited to share our work on an almost-invisible female control, rapidly evolving mating recognition systems, and species that break the rules and take over the world. IN MOSQUITOES>

The lock and key system that we discovered evolves rapidly in the wild because of the species that cheat it (thank you 𝘈𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘴). This creates a rich model for understanding how to encode a recognition system, adapt when under pressure, and generally: how to change a nervous system.

A rapidly evolving female-controlled lock-and-key mechanism determines Aedes mosquito mating success Houri-Zeevi et al. uncover a lock-and-key mating system in mosquitoes, where females control mating through genital responses to rapidly evolving male structures. Males of the invasive Asian tiger mos...

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

Many thanks to the amazing team that made the weird fun (but not the fun weird): Madison Walker, @jacoporazzauti.bsky.social, Anurag Sharma, Amalia Pasolli, and the almighty @leslievosshall.bsky.social

Q.E.D works amazingly well! I was a skeptic at the beginning and then just really really impressed. For change 🥂

Induction of menstruation in mice reveals the regulation of menstrual shedding During menstruation, an inner layer of the endometrium is selectively shed, while an outer, progenitor-containing layer is preserved to support repeated regeneration. Progress in understanding this co...

Congratulations @karalmckinley.bsky.social & lab on their groundbreaking recent preprint establishing + characterizing a chemically inducible model of menstruation in mouse:

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

My jaw dropped when I heard this presented earlier this year. Incredible.

הופה! אולי אתה חווה את הפלישה של הנמר האסייתי? (Aedes albopictus)
הן חיות רעות

מצטערת מאוד לשמוע איתי, תנחומיי

If you scan it you get a QR code that links to the FlyBase donations page

Pls. share widely

Calling all transposon fans & lovers of genetic innovation

MOBILE GENOME welcomes you in Heidelberg, Nov. 4–7 2025

→ Vibrant & friendly community
→ Cutting-edge talks from mechanisms to physiology
→ Plenty of surprises (TEs never stop innovating)

submit abstract by July 29

Thank you!!! 🥹

I completely missed this post!!! Thanks so much Olivia, it was a crazy ride 🦄

Pan-viral ORFs discovery using massively parallel ribosome profiling Defining viral proteomes is crucial to understanding viral life cycles and immune recognition but the landscape of translated regions remains unknown for most viruses. We have developed massively para...

Just finished reading this amazing work from @WeingartenShira et al. A real tour de force to reveal the “dark matter” of viral genomes in high throughput:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Also, the shoooooes!!! 😍😍😍

Insect Sex - Alex Wild The world's millions of insect species display a glorious diversity of strategies for courting and mating.

Dr. Wild's Big Gallery of Bug Sex

YouTube video by KevinIhle Gregory Alan Isakov covers "The Trapeze Swinger"

It’s such a beautiful song. Do you know this version?

youtu.be/USom8PhOXgs

Super interesting, congratulations!!!

Thanks a lot Begüm!!! 🥳

Thanks so much Naama!!!! 🥳

((BSKY killed the resolution...))

Wait, do you mean something like this? ;)

Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience The mission of the Simons Collaboration on Ecological NEuroscience (SCENE) is to understand how affordances offered by the world shape representations in the mind and the brain.

Fantastic!! www.simonsfoundation.org/neuroscience...

New technique expands tissues so hundreds of biomolecules can be seen inside cells A new tissue expansion method developed by Janelia and University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers enables scientists to use mass spectrometry imaging to simultaneously detect hundreds of molecules

🥼A new tissue expansion method developed by researchers in the Wang & Tillberg labs & collaborators @uwmadison.bsky.social enables scientists to use mass spectrometry imaging to simultaneously detect hundreds of molecules at the single cell level in their native locations ➡️ hhmi.news/4ixHOZZ