Ana Catalán

Despite their strikingly different plumage, carrion and hooded crows show strong asymmetrical gene flow hidden beneath the feathers #hybridzone #evolution #demography #bird

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Full-length transcriptomes of 25 grassland plant species - Scientific Data Scientific Data - Full-length transcriptomes of 25 grassland plant species

A flower once wild,

cast into digital chains.

A meadow once free.

Jiang et al. (2025) Sci Data

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Compartmentalization reduces conflict in multipartner plant-insect symbioses Many symbioses involve one host species having several mutualist partners, yet theory predicts that unrelated symbionts lead to destabilizing conflict through competition for host resources. We combin...

Compartmentalization reduces conflict in multipartner plant-insect symbioses | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Is there an independent role of epigenetic variation in speciation? We looked for answers in the crow hybrid zone.
In brief: DNA seems to be in the driving seat.

Congrats Justin! This was a long journey.
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This was a very interesting collaboration on how tricky is it to implement ATAC-seq on different insect species 🪲 🐝 🐜

Female neoteny does have an impact on colonization patterns in the big European firefly, Lampyris noctiluca ✨

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

This work shows the first overview on the population genetics and demographic history of the big European firefly, **Lampyris noctiluca**. Feeling very happy this work is out :) academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...