Eckart Stolle

Many thanks to all GEvol members for a truly wonderful annual meeting. It was really great to catch up with you all again.

Molecular evolution of dietary shifts in ladybird beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae): from fungivory to carnivory and herbivory - BMC Biology Background Dietary shifts are major evolutionary steps that shape ecological niches and biodiversity. The beetle family Coccinellidae, commonly known as ladybirds, first transitioned from a fungivorou...

Molecular evolution of dietary shifts in ladybirds 🐞 expansions of digestive & detoxifying #gene families in the herbivorous ladybirds, & absence of most plant cell wall-degrading enzymes in the ladybirds from the transition to carnivory link.springer.com/article/10.1...

W3-Professorship in Marine Ecology - Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (DE) job with Universität Rostock | 12840849 The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Rostock invites applications for a W3-Professorship in Marine Ecology at the I...

Two professorships in my institute at Uni Rostock! Marine Ecology www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Are you interested in doing your PhD in applied bioinformatics in Greifswald? Then apply now for this exciting open position!
#CONCENTRATE #TRR420 #AI #DeepLearning #Bioinformatics www.uni-greifswald.de/en/universit...

Research Assistant (m/f/d) - Population Genomics/Evolutionary Genomics

Job alert! I am looking for someone who would like to join my lab as a senior researcher, permanent, with teaching included. My lab is new, I still have startup money, just sayin. DM or email me with questions. Deadline Aug. 11th, interviews in september.
Ad here: jobs.uni-rostock.de/jobposting/c...

A chromosome-level genome assembly and resequencing data reveal low DNA methylation and reduced diversity in the solitary bee pollinator Osmia cornuta https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.14.664667v1

Direct detection of meiotic recombination events in the highly heterozygous amphioxus genome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.14.664623v1

Programmed DNA elimination drives rapid genomic innovation in two thirds of all bird species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.16.664580v1

Sex-biased Migration and Demographic History of the Big European Firefly Lampyris noctiluca Abstract. Differential dispersion between the sexes can impact the colonization process and demographic history of a species. Here, we explored the demogra

@anaevolcatalan.bsky.social @hoehna.bsky.social @stusso.bsky.social @ulrikacandolin.bsky.social et al. analyse genomes of the European firefly, revealing a complex demographic history shaped by glaciation and sex-biased dispersal.

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#evobio #molbio

Convergent Evolution of Sociality Causes Reduction of Mutation Rates in Spiders Germline mutations play a crucial role in determining the rate of molecular evolution. In the spider genus Stegodyphus, sociality has independently evolved three times within the past million years, e...

🕷️🕸️🧬 whole #genome sequencing of 202 parent-offspring trios from 34 families across 3 social & 4 subsocial species - sociality is associated with an approximately 50% reduction in germline mutation rate www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #biodiversity #genomics

Hello bluesky world! Newbee here! I have a postdoc position immediately available in my lab. It will focus on identifying high-quality transposons in many genomes and finding their impacts in evolution and traits. Most works, including EDTA2 development and annotation of 400+ genomes, are done! 1/n

Study finds strongest evidence yet that shingles vaccine helps cut dementia risk Older adults in Wales who had the jab were 20% less likely to be diagnosed with dementia that those not vaccinated Researchers who tracked cases of dementia in Welsh adults have uncovered the strongest evidence yet that the shingles vaccination reduces the risk of developing the devastating brain disease. Health records of more than 280,000 older adults revealed that those who received a largely discontinued shingles vaccine called Zostavax were 20% less likely to be diagnosed with dementia over the next seven years than those who went without. Continue reading...

Study finds strongest evidence yet that shingles vaccine helps cut dementia risk

tidk: a toolkit to rapidly identify telomeric repeats from genomic datasets AbstractSummary. tidk (short for telomere identification toolkit), uses a simple, fast algorithm to scan long DNA reads for the presence of short tandemly

tidk: a toolkit to rapidly identify telomeric repeats from genomic datasets. #TelomericRepeats #AssembledGenomces #LongReads #Bioinformatics 🧬 🖥️
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✨We are hiring!✨🧪🏛️🧬
The @nhmdk.bsky.social at the University of Copenhagen is seeking a permanent, full-time Molecular Biology Lab Manager to help us establish and run our National Facility for #Museomics in the heart of one of Europe's most beautiful cities!
Please reskeet!

🌱 Job-Alarm: Wissenschaftskommunikation & Moorökologie! 🌿📢
Die Uni Greifswald sucht eine*n wissenschaftliche*n Mitarbeiter*in (50%, E13 TV-L) für WETSCAPES2.0! 🌍
📅 Deadline: 17.02.2025 - www.uni-greifswald.de/wetscapes2

CASTER: Direct species tree inference from whole-genome alignments https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk9688 🧬🖥️🧪 https://github.com/chaoszhang/ASTER

Important new paper just out on the origins & #evolbiol of the London Underground Mosquito Culex p. molestus by @yukihaba.bsky.social @lindymcbr.bsky.social. Spoiler alert: Molestus originated 1000s of years ago in the Middle East www.biorxiv.org/content/bior... #evolviol #urbanevolution

Estimated additive genetic variance organized by 143 traits. Colored ridges show the estimated additive genetic variance across 100 permutations for either MOA bQTL (green), bgSNPs (orange), and remaining genome SNPs (purple). Black symbols represent the mean estimated value across permutations. Traits arranged by bQTL mean variance estimates and color coded according to general trait groupings: vitamin E metabolites = navy blue, metabolites = purple, stalk strength = light blue, flowering time = gold, plant architecture = red, disease = green, tassel architecture = pink, ear architecture = orange, misc. = grey.

I still love this figure. Submitting revisions this week. SNPs in transcription factor binding sites (green) explain the majority of additive genetic variation for >70% of ~150 phenotypes (rows) in maize. See Alt for detailed figure legend. See www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... for more!

Hey look! A Society for the Study of Evolution starter pack! Includes ESEB, ASN, and journals!

Pls Re-skeet!

Interested in interactions between managed #honeybee & #wild #bees using #eDNA methods in a multidisciplinary consortium #Beenergia? Then apply for a postdoc in the Natural History Museum here in #Karlsruhe for environmental DNA (eDNA) research on bees! summ summ...

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v3.0.0 Release | JBrowse Hello all!

JBrowse v3.0.0

Check out this impressive potato genome (graph) study, with @zbao.bsky.social as co-first author! I especially liked the authors' idea of a 'broken window' effect of deleterious SVs, which seem to attract more deleterious mutations (SVs and SNPs) nearby.
#plantscience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Targeted decontamination of sequencing data with CLEAN https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.05.552089v3 🧬🖥️🧪 Nextflow: https://github.com/rki-mf1/clean

YouTube video by Integrative Biodiversity Discovery DIY Photomicroscope

Episode 3 (imaging): Don't just sort. Also image! No money for a robot? Try the Entomoscope! 🦟🔬 DIY microscope for imaging tiny insects in ethanol: 3D-print case, order parts, assemble, image! 📸Perfect for entomologists www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEoZ... ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/104...

From trees to traits: A review of advances in PhyloG2P methods and future directions http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.07043v1

Google Docs pro tip: Tools --> Preferences --> check Enable Markdown. You can write **markdown** inline with `code` chunks etc and it'll format automatically. Bonus, copy to markdown and paste from markdown.

Great tall from @clementgoubert.bsky.social to present GraffiTE: a pipline that finds polymorphic TE in genomes
#PAG32
github.com/cgroza/Graff...

REPET got a complete overhaul in version 4.0 ! Etienne Bardet from @urgi-inrae.bsky.social presents the updates in #PAG32
forgemia.inra.fr/urgi-anagen/...

This is an important shift - the long awaited new Ensembl web site is ready for beta testing - is smooth, scrollable genome loveliness +clean views of the complex information - but @ensembl.bsky.social needs your help to get all the use cases out. Come to the webinar, and check out beta.ensembl.org

PanKmer: k-mer-based and reference-free pangenome analysis AbstractSummary. Pangenomes are replacing single reference genomes as the definitive representation of DNA sequence within a species or clade. Pangenome an

#PAG32 | #PAG2025
Dr. Lee
Search pedigree of blueberries to add to the pan-genomes that would help the breeding program.
PanKmer software:
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