The latest paper by Emily Lau, PhD et al in Biology Letters shows how ostracods, Renilla, and fireflies all use the same gene family (sulfotransferases) to modify chemically different bioluminescent substrates. Parallel evolution is fun! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

who needs Ozempic when you have artificial selection

Non-Renewal of ARSV Laurence M. Gould Charter :(
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Don't miss the original article from HittingerLab RokasLab Liang Sun Kyle T. David 🍄 Carla Gonçalves Dana A Opulente The Lab LaBella Marizeth Groenewald Xingxing Shen buff.ly/49PT27D

1/42 New preprint: turns out MuLTEE is not only the longest running multicellularity evolution experiment (1000 days and counting), but also the longest running polyploidy evolution experiment! It reveals how whole-genome duplication (WGD) arises and impacts long-term evolution.

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Twilight Ascent

We are hiring an amphibian curator Field Museum apply here 🐸🐸🐸 fieldmuseum.hrmdirect.com/employment/job…

I think Wyna is undergoing a House of Leaves -esque descent into madness and I'm really excited to be along for the ride
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Visual abstract for Carlos Taboada et al. ,Glassfrogs conceal blood in their liver to maintain transparency.Science378,1315-1320(2022).DOI:10.1126/science.abl6620

letting Josh speak tonight at #fungal24

Chase D Brownstein, Daniel J MacGuigan, Daemin Kim, Oliver Orr, Liandong Yang, Solomon R David, Brian Kreiser, Thomas J Near, The genomic signatures of evolutionary stasis, Evolution, 2024;, qpae028, doi.org/10.1093/evolut…

Guys me and my friends have this crazy bet where the first person to figure out a path around the city where you walk over each bridge once and only once gets a FREE BEER

Please help me figure this one out guys if we can solve it that would be EPIC

Me: So what do you do?
Her: I research genomes
Me: I love those little dudes, but you know it's actually pronounced 'gnomes'

I’m convinced Spinosaurus researchers figured out its lifestyle ages ago and are having a faux debate to farm citations

It was a loonnnnnng time coming but our paper on path dependent evolution of visual systems is out in Science! Rebecca Varney Joie Cannon Morris A. Aguilar Dan Speiser Doug Eernisse.
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Also, nice Perspective piece by @lauren_hsr !
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