Masahito Tsuboi

Evolution of developmental bias explains divergent patterns of phenotypic evolution in two nematode clades | PNAS Rates of phenotypic evolution vary across traits, and these evolutionary patterns themselves evolve. Understanding how development contributes to s...

Even more evidence that developmental bias is correlated with the pattern of (macro)evolution. It is no more questionable that this is a genuine biological pattern. Now it's time to explain. How exciting!

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Conserved wing shape variation across biological scales unveils dialectical relationships between micro- and macroevolution - Communications Biology Using a dataset of wing variation in Drosophila flies, the authors demonstrate that micro- and macroevolution align across levels. The authors propose multi-directional causal paths to explain the pat...

Using a dataset of wing variation in Drosophila flies, the authors demonstrate that micro- and macroevolution align across levels and they propose multi-directional causal paths to explain the pattern, contributing to the development of a unified theory of evolution. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

wow that's really interesting to hear! What is your field of expertise, if I may ask? As an evolutionary geneticist, this direction started rather spontaneously but the more we learn, the more convincing I am that this is the right thing to do.

thank you for quoting this! It is definitely one of my favourite sentences in this paper ;)

Now online ‪Communications Biology!‬ We showed that variation aligns across biological levels. We proposed that #macroevolution mould #developmentalbias with a cascading effect on variation. #Microevolution, then, may be a result—not a cause of—macroevolution. nature.com/articles/s42...

4 years ago, @anjaligupta.bsky.social spent a summer in Lund and collected amazing data of #damselflies. Now, the data/results are published doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... @jevbio.bsky.social ky.social. My highlight: we proposed a way to relate present-day selection #microevolution with #macroevolution.

PLEASE REPOST! We’re hiring 5 Project assistants/Field assistants for a population study of damselflies with me and @EvolOdonata.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy as PIs. Besides research and field work experience, a beautiful Swedish summer awaits! DM me, should you have any questions.

Evolution meets physics! Very cool!

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Evolutionary lability of sexual selection and its implications for speciation and macroevolution | The American Naturalist: Vol 0, No ja

A nice paper @asn-amnat.bsky.social reports that the proxy for net selection and local estimate of selection mismatch. I disagree with their view that local estimates should be used to infer #macroevolution. I think it's the opposite. Nice work, nonetheless. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Pretty excited about this one, where we studied how a fluctuating environment and evolution of plasticity affect character displacement between competing species. Most unexpected result: character displacement can exist for plasticity itself, but it is often convergent rather than divergent.

thank you Diogo! And great to be connected to you! Lately I chat with Anna Penna very often and we talk about you (it seems that we crossed over in QuanGen course in Knoxville many years ago). And I am a fun of many of your papers. Hope to see you in some conferences soon :)

thank you very much for contributing! I look forward to our next collaboration!

Volume 37 Issue 12 | Journal of Evolutionary Biology | Oxford Academic Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Special Issue: Inferring macroevolutionary patterns and processes from microevolutionary mechanisms

Wow! A lot of interesting papers to read in here!

PhD Candidate in Evolutionary Ecology (271754) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology Job title: PhD Candidate in Evolutionary Ecology (271754), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Monday, January 27, 2025

📣PhD position open in our group!📣
Come work on a super fascinating system: partial #migration in European shags. #Fieldwork, theoretical #modelling and #QuantitativeGenetics are all possible depending on interests. Please spread to good candidates of any nationality! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

We are very excited about our new Felsenstein Review, by Rosana Zenil-Ferguson and Lee Hsiang Liow, is now out! Check out the full article here 👉 https://buff.ly/41hpKym

Now our special issue on the relationship between microevolution and macroevolution is online @jevbio.bsky.social! We hope that it marks the beginning of a new era of exciting discoveries.

link to the issue: ow.ly/LHol50UjJql
link to the editorial: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...