Excited to share our new preprint! 🍇🧬
We analyzed 639 genomes across 48 grape species to understand how hybridization drives adaptation.
• ~14% of average Vitis genome is introgressed
• Most parallel adaptations are shared via gene flow
• Two "hybrid species" are actually hybrid swarms
Wonderful (and humble) essay on mentorship by Brandon Gaut, on occasion of Brandon receiving the inaugural Mentorship Award of @genetics-gsa.bsky.social. I hope this will be widely read!
academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
HPLC (high-performance liquid computing)
Jay is the lead author on a fascinating paper I was involved in, about how male mimicry by female hummingbirds provides the first example of a type of signaling system that we predicted from theoretical principles over a decade ago.
This is infuriating.
And I believe it's due to anti-trans bias.
Are you at #PAG31 ? Like grapes and crop wild relatives? Come see my talk today in the Grape Genome Initiative workshop in Pacific H-I at 2:10PM!
We have a new preprint up. This one is a hypothesis paper, addressing one of the bigger unanswered questions that people have been asking me for the last 15 years: why has complex multicellularity only evolved in eukaryotes, never in prokaryotes? 1/33
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
