How Did Evolution Halve Genome Size During an Oceanic Island Colonization?
Abstract. Red devil spiders of the genus Dysdera colonized the Canary Islands and underwent an extraordinary diversification. Notably, their genomes are ne
Red devil spiders from the Canary Islands have a genome half the size of mainland counterparts - Pisarenco, @jrozasub.bsky.social et al. show how purifying selection against slightly deleterious DNA and TE insertions is the primary mechanism.
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Delighted to see Luis's beautiful study on the evolution and development of visual system diversity in spiders is out in @royalsociety.org Proc B!
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Bluesky account of the DFG-funded SPP 2349 "Genomic Basis of Evolutionary Innovations" (coordinator: E. Bornberg-Bauer, University Münster)
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stochastic modelling in biology, evolutionary bioinformatics, theoretical population genetics, evolutionary (epi)genomics and transcriptomics
Scientist Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center, Frankfurt, Germany
evolutionary biology, adaptive genomics, behavior
Fascinated by the evolution of the brain | Senior Research Associate at EBaB lab (University of Bristol) | 2025 PI Fellow (Company of Biologists) | Section Speaker Neurobiology DZG | he/him
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We are a biodiversity genomics community to generate reference quality genomes for all European species. #Genomes for #Biodiversity
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Scientific lab head at a natural history museum (LIB / Museum König Bonn, Germany). Research in animal genomics & evolution (insects, fish), teaching bioinformatics. Enjoying literature & history, 50/60s Jazz and arthouse movies.
evolutionary biologist: sex determination, social evolution, gene expression evolution, and bugs #genomics #bioinformatics #molbiol
Molecular evolution and bioinformatics at Uni Muenster, Germany. Protein evolution | domains | de novo genes | comparative evolutionary genomics
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Computational Biologist at LMU München. RevBayes, phylogenetics, Bayes & Macroevolution. Former Miller fellow (UC Berkeley), Emmy Noether group leader & ERC StG
I like ants. I like TEs.
Evolutionary Biologist at the Institute for Evolution & Biodiversity (University of Münster)
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May contain ants
http://evolution.vnehring.de | Behaviour, Evolution, Ecology | Assistant Prof@Uni Freiburg, Germany | AE @PlosONE | Secretary Central European IUSSI
Bioinformatician & Evolutionary Biologist
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Protein Domains, De novo genes, Insects, Python, Machine Learning, ...
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Unravelling the function and evolution of many-eyed visual systems. Led by @laurensr.bsky.social and based @MfNBerlin.bsky.social.
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