Pooja Nathan

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05.09.2025 15:20 — 👍 396    🔁 126    💬 6    📌 15

Presenting Dr. @bmsacchi.bsky.social !! Bianca successfully defended her thesis on Rumex sex chromosome degeneration and regulatory evolution today. Bravo!!

13.08.2025 17:53 — 👍 23    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 1

Now out in Oecologia! Check it out: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

16.07.2025 14:42 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Shifts in bee diet breadths are associated with gene gains and losses and positive selection across olfactory receptors Abstract. Bees are palynivorous insects that vary widely in the number of plant families from which they collect pollen. Their evolutionary history has bee

🧬 Shift between specialized & generalized diets in #bees is associated with evolutionary changes in their sensory genes. Generalists lose odorant receptors (ORs) and gain gustatory receptors (GRs), while specialists diversify existing genes 🌸🐝 #genomics #pollinators
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11.07.2025 17:55 — 👍 70    🔁 25    💬 1    📌 3

Pesticide drift and exposure can alter plant mutualisms in ways both direct and indirect.

Out of site, out of mind? Considering #pesticide drift and plant #mutualisms

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👆 A #Commentary by Charlie C. Nicholson on this article by Baucom et al. 👇

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#LatestIssue #PlantScience

24.06.2025 11:31 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1

TropiRoot 1.0: Database of tropical root characteristics across environments Tropical ecosystems contain the world's largest biodiversity of vascular plants. Yet, our understanding of tropical functional diversity and its contribution to global diversity patterns is constrain...

🎉 Our collaborative TropiRoot data paper “TropiRoot 1.0: Database of tropical root characteristics across environments” is out in Ecology! Explore 8,000+ standardized tropical root trait records from 104 studies across 25 countries. Data are freely available ! 🌿 doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... #tropiroots

19.05.2025 13:39 — 👍 19    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 4

Screenshot from the cover page of the paper

A map of the world showing fly migration study locations and estimated routes

A close up photo of Eristalinus taeniops the stripey eyed hoverfly on a yellow flower in Cyprus

A close up photo of the locust blowfly Stomorhina lunata on a rock. My favourite fly

It's published!
The largest research work I've ever undertaken:

Lords of the flies: dipteran migrants are diverse, abundant & ecologically important

Published in Biological Reviews: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks so much to co-authors @koralwotton.bsky.social & Myles Menz
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02.04.2025 06:39 — 👍 280    🔁 96    💬 7    📌 9

Thanks for the editorial support, Quarterly team! Check out my article on why natural history is still important :)

10.02.2025 22:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The second chapter of my PhD is now available as a preprint! We sampled ant-plant interactions across a ~20° latitudinal gradient across the Indian subcontinent to test the biotic interactions hypothesis for mutualism. Check it out!

09.01.2025 03:42 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Evolution 2025 logo. A plane traveling from a globe toward a silhouette of Georgia with a pin over Athens. Text: Society for the Study of Evolution International Travel Stipends.

Applications now open for the 2025 International Travel Stipends to attend #Evol2025! Funds cover registration, travel, food, and lodging. Can also be used to attend #ESEB2025! Apply by January 31: https://buff.ly/3ZEWUqe @evolmtg.bsky.social

06.12.2024 13:22 — 👍 40    🔁 45    💬 0    📌 0

I'm excited to see our paper being part of this special issue!

04.12.2024 01:16 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0