📢 NEW GENOME ALERT
In #G3journal, @owengosborne.bsky.social et al. present a high-quality genome assembly and high-density linkage map of Silene uniflora, a hermaphroditic species that is emerging as an important model for rapid adaptation to human disturbances. buff.ly/dnhnUDF
🎉 Exciting milestone … my first PhD paper has been accepted in the Journal of Experimental Biology! 🥳
Not all winter warming is equal: steady, mild winters increase activity and can cause molecular damage, but short, warm spells have little effect on wall lizards 🦎
Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants
First post! New paper in Infection & Immunity.
We asked: what do #probiotics do to microbiome & immune system?
They do more to microbiome than immune system, but depended on probiotic & effects fleeting with cocktail impacts different than individual strains.
journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
Photographic evidence that it has also colonised a galaxy far, far away...Silene uniflora growing on Luke Skywalker's island retreat (aka Skellig Michael)!
With me, @amyellison.bsky.social @briangratwicke.bsky.social, Louise Barwell,
@lancasterlt.bsky.social & @gretabocedi.bsky.social.
@meebangor.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social
Eastern newt (Notophthalmus viridescens)
We’re recruiting for a #PhD opportunity funded by NERC Envision DTP, investigating the impact of climate change on chytrid disease dynamics in Appalachian salamanders.
Full details here: findaphd.com?pj=182328
Our new paper shows that plasticity that has evolved to deal with one stressful situation, can help plants to adapt rapidly to new stressful situations. doi.org/10.1073/pnas... @meebangor.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social @ukri.org @pnas.org
In 2013 Liz Scordato & I did a ~6k mi transect of Russia. It was *part* of a larger study of how divergence in traits used in mate choice & competition affects the formation of new species. Today, we have a paper in Science, led by Drew Schield & Becca Safran 🧪🪶🦚
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
In 2020, we showed that studies published in ecological journals WITH a code-sharing policy showed a 21% reproducibility potential at max (Culina et al 2020, @plosbiology.bsky.social)
We've now investigated journals WITHOUT a code-sharing policy. The results are worrying.
📰 doi.org/10.32942/X21...
