Kira Long

Ongoing introgression of a secondary sexual plumage trait in a stable avian hybrid zone Abstract. Hybrid zones are dynamic systems where natural selection, sexual selection, and other evolutionary forces can act on reshuffled combinations of d

My 1st dissertation chapter was published recently on hybridization of manakins and genomic and phenotypic introgression overtime in Panama: doi.org/10.1093/evol...
Ben Vernasco and I also published a paper on variation in telomeres and heterozygosity across the hybrid zone: doi.org/10.1111/mec....

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Our paper on the genome assembly and annotation of the Antarctic bald notothen (Trematomus borchgrevinki) is now available in G3!
This paper was lead by @niraj-rayamajhi.bsky.social, in collaboration with Bushra Fazal Minhas, Chris Cheng, and @jcatchen.bsky.social.
doi.org/10.1093/g3jo...
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FSU - Biological Science Department of Biological Sciences website

Job Alert: Florida State University is searching broadly for an Evolutionary Biologist (asst prof / tenure track). The Ecology and Evolution group here is an unusually collegial and supportive group (people matter!). Great facilities and resources.
 
Details: www.bio.fsu.edu/current_facu...

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Snow geese fill the sky at sunset in Washington's Skagit Valley.

I am delighted to announce that the Department of Biology at the University of Washington is advertising for a tenure-track assistant professor position on the quantitative understanding of collective behavior.

I will be chairing the search; details are here: apply.interfolio.com/130336

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Congratulations to Dr. Pearl Rivers, who did a great job of defending her dissertation research today!

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Chromosome genome scan showing private alleles from two species in a hybrid population

Zoomed in 1Mbp region showing private alleles having introgressed into hybrid populations (dark blue vertical lines)

I have been having a lot of fun revising private allele analysis in #Stacks from #RADseq data. What are private alleles? Given SNPs in a set of populations, a private allele is found only in a specific population. 1/n

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