Group photo by the Rockefeller University River Campus.
Q&A at the 2025 VGP in-person conference.
Erich Jarvis speaking at the planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History.
Attendees at the 2025 VGP in-person conference.
This week, we hosted over 100 scientists at Rockefeller University in New York City for our 2025 in-person conference.
02.10.2025 18:39 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
🧬 1 more week until the VGP in-person conference!
Can't make it to New York City? Sign up to attend virtually: www.eventbrite.com/e/vertebrate...
23.09.2025 18:17 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
This ought to be engraved somewhere.
23.09.2025 02:56 — 👍 17432 🔁 6172 💬 321 📌 194
Now published in Cell! We found that ~15% of SNPs from divergent refs did not liftover as SNPs in the gray fox ref—half mapped to monomorphic sites, half failed to map. Co-authored with Matthew Genchev, @elliecat.bsky.social, and @jazlynmooney.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
22.09.2025 17:41 — 👍 48 🔁 24 💬 2 📌 4
Hahaha... #botanists
15.09.2025 00:49 — 👍 76 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 1
Constraints on chromosome evolution revealed by the 229 chromosome pairs of the Atlas blue butterfly
The genome of the Atlas blue butterfly contains ten times more chromosomes than most
butterflies, and more than any other known diploid animal. Wright et al. show that
this extraordinary karyotype is ...
How many chromosomes can an animal have?
In our paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social we show that the Atlas blue butterfly has 229 chromosome pairs- the highest in diploid Metazoa! These arose by rapid autosome fragmentation while sex chromosomes stayed intact.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
11.09.2025 15:21 — 👍 209 🔁 99 💬 4 📌 6
Massive datasets in #ScienceAdvances confirm that higher adherence to a diet friendly to Earth and human health correlates with lower all-cause mortality. https://scim.ag/46bE644
10.09.2025 19:00 — 👍 41 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 1
This is now published at #MolecularEcology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Check it out!
26.08.2025 11:21 — 👍 50 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 2
#popgen #congen
24.08.2025 22:35 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
How the Pygmy Sea Horse Lost Its Snout
What a sensational science story about an almost mythical beast from @carlzimmer.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/s...
26.08.2025 13:29 — 👍 21 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
Isolating the genomic predictors and mechanisms of inbreeding and outbreeding depression allows us to better weigh their impacts and apply genetic rescue even when outbreeding depression is a risk. Many thanks to excellent coauthors, including @thatlionlady @frozen-zoo.bsky.social!
21.08.2025 20:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
In an admixed breeding program, the number of offspring produced increases with heterozygosity, but there is a reproductive cost to having parents with different chromosome numbers (heterozygous karyotypes).
In an admixed breeding program, we found that the costs of inbreeding depression from genomic erosion outweigh outbreeding depression from chromosomal differences, suggesting that extinction risk is higher if populations remain isolated.
21.08.2025 20:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Formerly a baseball writer and editor, now an amateur wildlife photographer.
I am a bird / nature lover turned into an evolutionary biologist with a focus in genomics...
NSF Postdoc at UC Santa Cruz, studying population and conservation genomics, and taking photos of my cats. she/her
Society encouraging the study of comparative genetics and genomics to document, conserve, and manage organismal diversity. We publish biodiversity genetics & genomics research in Journal of Heredity. https://linktr.ee/theaga_org
SMBE fosters communication among molecular evolutionists and advances the field.
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Associate Professor 🏳️🌈, University of Colorado Boulder
For birds, for people, for the planet!
evolutionary genomics of maize and wild relatives. erstwhile ethnobotanist. purveyor of bad puns. dad. prof and HPC director at UC Davis. not actually a cool cow from 1994. rilab.ucdavis.edu. views, especially bad ones, mine only (he/him)
The Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP) aims to generate error-free genome assemblies for all 70,000 vertebrate species, offering a powerful resource to advance research in biology, genomics, conservation, medicine, and bioinformatics.
Evolutionary and Conservation Genomics / herpetophile / Neotropics / Professor @UTAustin in @texasscience.bsky.social and Department of Integrative Biology / Women & Diversity In Science / Proud to be #Woke
Evolutionary genomics & speciation of mammals. Prof & Director of the UMontana genomics core. http://www.thegoodlab.org
Evolutionary biologist @UCDavis interested in climate change and marine critters
Finished a human genome, working on a few more 👨💻
Lab: https://genomeinformatics.github.io
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Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University. Studies evolutionary genomics, mostly in birds.
🇨🇦 Prof at UC in Aotearoa New Zealand 🇳🇿 #WearsManyHats #JugglesManyBalls incl Conservation Genomics #ConSERTeam🧬 IUCN SSC Conservation Translocation Specialist Group🕊️ PI @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social #KindnessInScience🔬 Opinions are my own.
Associate Prof at W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, MSU. Thinking about evolution and conservation in small populations. she/her 🏳️🌈
Population & Human Genetics
Evolutionary Biologist at Stanford. Rapid Evolution, Adaptation, and Genomics. Open Science advocate.
Professor at UCLA in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology as well as Human Genetics.
Traffic Ninja. Occasional runner...
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