Isabella Childers's Avatar

Isabella Childers

@ichilde.bsky.social

PhD Candidate in the Murphy Lab at Texas A&M University | Sloth enthusiast 🦥 (she/her)

47 Followers  |  116 Following  |  1 Posts  |  Joined: 21.05.2025  |  1.1401

Latest posts by ichilde.bsky.social on Bluesky

Preview
An ancient recombination desert is a speciation supergene in placental mammals - Nature Deep learning methods identified a large and evolutionarily conserved X-linked low recombination region in placental mammals that serves as both a barrier to gene flow in hybridizing lineages and an a...

Please check out the newly published Murphy lab’s new paper in @nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

12.11.2025 17:39 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
Preview
Recombination-aware phylogenomics Phylogenetic variation, recombination rate evolution, and comparative genome structure and organization have typically been explored in isolation. The chromosomal and genomic context of selected genetic markers in phylogenetic studies is usually unknown, given the fragmented nature of most genome assemblies. It is now established that the position of markers in the genome can strongly influence the inferred phylogeny, often not reflecting speciation patterns and subsequent bifurcating tree structure but rather post-speciation introgression. The recent availability of chromosome-level genome assemblies and advances in estimating genome-wide recombination rates have created opportunities to jointly understand the interplay of chromosome evolution, the landscape of recombination, and phylogenetic signal.

Online now: Recombination-aware phylogenomics

18.07.2025 14:30 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

@ichilde is following 20 prominent accounts