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Lydia Fong

@squarehare.bsky.social

PhD Candidate at UBC - She/Her/They Sex chromosomes in guppies are cool. My favourite things: The colour yellow and my dog and cat.

570 Followers  |  1,020 Following  |  2 Posts  |  Joined: 28.09.2023  |  1.343

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Now out! How important is social experience in male mating behavior? @corrallopeza.bsky.social found that experienced males were more likely to coerce non-receptive females, but did not change overall preference onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... w/ @vdbijl.bsky.social @idarolti.bsky.social

11.12.2025 15:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Team fish - we need your help! We are trying to build a database of all the fish chromosome-scale genomes where sex chromosomes have been identified. Have you build one or some? Do you know someone who has? Can you post the link in the comments? Please spread the word and repost! Thank you!

20.11.2025 16:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 45    ๐Ÿ” 64    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ“ข NEW GENOME ALERT

In #G3journal, @squarehare.bsky.social, @judithmank.bsky.social, and team generated a genome assembly of the Amazon guppy, Poecilia bifurca and showed how this speciesย shares sex chromosomes with related species, albeit with substantial Y chromosome degeneration. buff.ly/lM7etkw

26.09.2025 18:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Just in time for her #eseb2025 poster on Thursday, @squarehare.bsky.social 's paper on the Poecilia bifurca sex chromosomes was published today academic.oup.com/g3journal/ad...

20.08.2025 18:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'd like to be added as well! Thank you!

15.08.2025 08:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m really sorry to be missing #eseb2025, but for those sorting out their conference plan there are several lab talks and posters about what we are up to. Spoiler, they aren't all talking about guppies, or even fish! 1/n

14.08.2025 15:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Just out - Genome of the Amazon Guppy (Poecilia bifurca) reveals conservation of sex chromosomes and dosage compensation. By @squarehare.bsky.social, with @idarolti.bsky.social and others not yet on Bsky.

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

26.05.2025 14:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This is fine...

29.10.2023 12:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2522    ๐Ÿ” 539    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 21    ๐Ÿ“Œ 27

#HiSciSky

My name is Lydia and I study sex chromosome evolution in guppies! Very excited to make my transition here! #academicsky
#biology #evolution

28.09.2023 18:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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