Corey Kirkland

Negative global-scale association between genetic diversity and speciation rates in mammals - Nature Communications Genetic diversity and speciation rate support adaptability and species richness patterns, respectively. Here, the authors find a negative association between mitochondrial genetic diversity and specia...

Negative global-scale association between genetic diversity and speciation rates in mammals
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Huge thanks to my PhD supervisor (@marta-fb.bsky.social) and collaborators (Xi Wang, Carla Canedo-Ribeiro, Lucía Álvarez-González, @thednazoo.bsky.social, @aruizherrera.bsky.social, Rasmus Heller, and Tony King).

#MolecularEcology #EvolutionaryGenomics #PopulationGenomics #Museomics

Chromosome‐Level Genomics and Historical Museum Collections Reveal New Insights Into the Population Structure and Chromosome Evolution of Waterbuck Advances in sequencing and chromosome-scale assembly have brought non-model animals into focus, deepening our understanding of genome and chromosome evolution. Here, we present the waterbuck (Kobus e...

Happy to share our new paper out in ME!

We generated a chromosome-level genome for the waterbuck and WGS historical museum collections, allowing us to explore population structure and gene flow at a finer-scale, and polymorphic chromosome (Rb) fusions.

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Chromosome‐Level Genomics and Historical Museum Collections Reveal New Insights Into the Population Structure and Chromosome Evolution of Waterbuck Advances in sequencing and chromosome-scale assembly have brought non-model animals into focus, deepening our understanding of genome and chromosome evolution. Here, we present the waterbuck (Kobus e...

🎯Excited to share our new collaborative paper in Mol Ecol - Beautifully lead by @marta-fb.bsky.social & @coreykirkland.bsky.social - Exploring the fascinating evolutionary story of the waterbuck, shaped by climate and unique chromosome changes

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On the cover: A phoronid (Phoronis australis) extending its crown-like feeding organ, the lophophore, from its tube on the seabed. These sedentary marine invertebrates belong to the spiralian branch of bilaterian animals. For over a century, their closest relatives have been debated, with competing hypotheses linking them to either brachiopods or bryozoans. In this issue, Lewin et al. present a chromosome-level genome of P. australis and reveal that it shares seven derived chromosome fusions with bryozoans. This provides rare, sequence-independent evidence supporting bryozoans as the closest relatives of phoronids and offers new insights into the evolution of genome structure and animal body plans. Photograph © Fred Bavendam; used with permission.

Lophophorates get way too little publicity...

Latest issue is out!
www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...

Hybrids Along a Natural‐Anthropogenic Gradient: Improving Policy and Management Across All Levels of Biodiversity Hybridization has long been a central topic in evolution and conservation. Recent developments in genomics have increased the ability to detect hybridization, defined here as breeding between species....

We have another publication out! 🎉🎉🎉
“Hybrids along a natural–anthropogenic gradient: improving policy and management across all levels of biodiversity.”
We explore how to deal with hybrids in conservation — scientifically and practically. A thread 🧵
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🔊New perspective piece out @genomebiolevol.bsky.social.

"The Genomic Kaleidoscope: On the Hidden Dimensions of Within-Species Genomic Diversity" 💡🌀🌈
doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...

Co-led with @mbrasovives.bsky.social and @diegoharta.bsky.social

Check out our thread! 🧵👇 (1/n)

Sponges back?

Integrative phylogenomics positions sponges at the root of the animal tree. @science.org

#sponges vs #ctenophores

New preprint out from my PhD on waterbuck evolutionary genomics!

Chromosome-level genome assembly, historical DNA, and chromosome rearrangements 👇

The author of a new book on frogs holding a copy, showing the cover which depicts a fantastic poison frog (Ranitomeya fantastica) carrying a tadpole on its back.

The Lives of Frogs — it's real! #frogs #amphibians #conservation #ecology #naturalhistory #biodiversity Available in all good book shops (and probably some bad) from 20th May 🧪 @princetonupress.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social @ucl-pnl.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

So happy to share that I passed my PhD viva on Friday!! 🤓📖

A huge thank you to my supervisor Marta Farré Belmonte for all her support and to the examiners Jim Groombridge and Raquel Chaves for a great discussion.

🔺 New preprint out!
About the hidden dimensions of genomic diversity 🧬
A nice collaborative effort
👇
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

I'm super happy to share our newest preprint on whooping crane genomics 🐣🧬

🚨Persistent genomic erosion in whooping cranes despite demographic recovery🚨 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Extremely thankful to @hernmoral.bsky.social and all co-authors!
#conservationgenomics #genomics #whoopingcranes

NEW report from us @wildjustice.bsky.social today - #LostNature - which details how housing developers are failing wildlife across the board on every measure . 🧵