Marc Robinson-Rechavi<p>Excellent talk by Isabela do O <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Biology25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biology25</span></a>, PhD student with <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ecoevo.social/@jgx65" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jgx65</span></a></span>, showing how population structure can bias Qst-Fst selection tests, and how her new LogAV method can correct and account for population statistics. <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/PopulationGenetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PopulationGenetics</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/MethodsMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MethodsMatter</span></a></p>
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Marc Robinson-Rechavi<p>Anna Hewett <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Biology25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biology25</span></a>: Inbreeding depression in owls can manifest at different stages of growth, and statistical results depends on choice of inbreeding coefficient used -> Inbreeding depression exists but can be difficult to show in wild populations.</p>
Marc Robinson-Rechavi<p>I don't think I've ever seen a scientific talk which weaves so much and so well ethical concerns with scientific results as Andreanna Welch’s <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Biology25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biology25</span></a> keynote. Now discussing helicopter science in relation to a study on cocoa farming ecosystems.<br><a href="https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2664.14563" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">besjournals.onlinelibrary.wile</span><span class="invisible">y.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2664.14563</span></a><br><a href="https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/conl.12947" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com</span><span class="invisible">/doi/full/10.1111/conl.12947</span></a></p>
Marc Robinson-Rechavi<p>How to communicate our science? Terminology has the potential to perpetuate injustice, we should consider more our terminology and how we communicate. Yet communication with the public is important, and also has a cultural side. <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Biology25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biology25</span></a> <br><a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002933" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">journals.plos.org/plosbiology/</span><span class="invisible">article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002933</span></a><br><a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1317510111" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.</span><span class="invisible">1317510111</span></a></p>
Marc Robinson-Rechavi<p>Urbanisation impacts different birds according to their diets: more anthropogenic food (bread, seed feeders), less nutritious arthropods <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Biology25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biology25</span></a> <br>Blue tits do better in the winter in urban environments, but the food is lowerrquality -> less eggs, less success (less fledging) of chicks.</p>
Marc Robinson-Rechavi<p>Andreanna Welch reminds us that Natural history museums are very important, but also have a difficult history linked to colonisation <a href="https://bluesci.co.uk/posts/natural-history-museums" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bluesci.co.uk/posts/natural-hi</span><span class="invisible">story-museums</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Biology25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biology25</span></a>.<br>Also, she’s solved the Procellariiformes phylogeny: <a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.27.453752v1.abstract" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20</span><span class="invisible">21.07.27.453752v1.abstract</span></a> (why write “unpublished” on your slides when you have a preprint?)</p>
Marc Robinson-Rechavi<p>Procellariiformes seabirds are the order of birds with the largest size range, from storm petrels to albatrosses <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Biology25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biology25</span></a>. Their taxonomy and phylogeny are contentious, e.g. relation of the diving petrels to other members of the order. DNA extracted from museum collections have been key to solving this phylogeny.</p>
Marc Robinson-Rechavi<p>3rd keynote of <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Biology25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biology25</span></a>: Andeanna Welch starts with a powerful reminder of both the biodiversity crisis and the lack diversity in people studying biodiversity (<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-021-01522-z" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/s41559-021</span><span class="invisible">-01522-z</span></a>).</p>
Marc Robinson-Rechavi<p>In different (cold) environments (Northern Scandinavia, Iceland, UK, Alps), , different interactions plants - herbivores, from strong top-down to strong bottom-up to almost no interaction.<br>Nice review and perspectives: <a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2023.0017" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">royalsocietypublishing.org/doi</span><span class="invisible">/full/10.1098/rstb.2023.0017</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Biology25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biology25</span></a></p>
Marc Robinson-Rechavi<p>Huge turnover (in Alps) from wild to domesticated mammals over last 6 ky, especially in last 4 ky. The largest impact on plant diversity is cattle, by far (above other domestic mammals, wild mammals, temperature, rainfall). <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Biology25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biology25</span></a></p>
Marc Robinson-Rechavi<p>What drives alpine biodiversity? Sampling of lake sendiments over all the Alps 🇫🇷🇨🇭 🇮🇹 🇦🇹 shows a strong increase in plant richness in the last 4000 years, with a peaks ≈3 kya and ≈2 kya, which correspond to arrival of domesticated animals. Temperature does not appear correlated with plant species richness. <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Biology25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biology25</span></a></p>
Marc Robinson-Rechavi<p>Metabarcoding allows to target organism groups, such as plants, while most of the non-targeted e-DNA is bacterial (SedaDNA = sediment ancient DNA). <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Biology25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biology25</span></a></p>
Marc Robinson-Rechavi<p>Inger Alsos, 2nd keynote of <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Biology25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biology25</span></a>: studying paleo-ecology to understand present ecology. Ancient environmental DNA allows to move from studying single taxa (biased towards a few which preserve well, e.g. pollen or bones) to studying whole ecosystems. Focus: lake sentiments which allow to trap ecosystem changes.</p>
Marc Robinson-Rechavi<p>Hourglass patterns everywhere? Kenneth Kim <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ecoevo.social/@nextstrain" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>nextstrain</span></a></span> presents <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Biology25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biology25</span></a> an inverted hourglass pattern (i.e. higher evolutionary divergence in the middle) in pan-crustacean arthropod moulting*, thus post-embryonic development.<br>* We collaborate with Allison Daley, Canadian palaeontologist, so I have to use UK spelling 😉.</p>
Marc Robinson-Rechavi<p>Exciting that next talk by Veronika Lipánová also found adaptation affecting pleiotropic genes in a very different system (Edaphic adaptation in the alpine carnation Dianthus sylvestris)! <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Biology25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biology25</span></a></p>
Marc Robinson-Rechavi<p>Great talk by lab member <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ecoevo.social/@dee_unil" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dee_unil</span></a></span> Agneesh Barua <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Biology25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biology25</span></a> on convergent gene evolution and pleiotropy in fishes. Preprint v1 here <a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.24.600426v1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20</span><span class="invisible">24.06.24.600426v1</span></a>, v2 with many new results coming soon!</p>
Marc Robinson-Rechavi<p>Henry Youn <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Biology25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biology25</span></a>: microbiomes might be able to adapt to environmental changes faster than hosts: could host insects benefit from the microbiome’s fast evolution? (I wonder whether it could lead to maladaptation of the host to the microbiome?)</p>
Marc Robinson-Rechavi<p>I won't post here the unpublished results, but fascinating talk by Susana Coelho. Invite her to your institute or conference and hear amazing stories of sexual reproduction, virus ecology, protein evolution, and more, with beautiful brown algae! <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Biology25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biology25</span></a></p>
Marc Robinson-Rechavi<p>Convergent recruitment of HMG proteins to sex determination in animals and brown algae! <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.adk5466" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">science.org/doi/full/10.1126/s</span><span class="invisible">cience.adk5466</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Biology25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biology25</span></a></p>
Marc Robinson-Rechavi<p>Brown algal sex chromosomes are conserved over 254 to 450 My <a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.15.575685v2.abstract" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20</span><span class="invisible">24.01.15.575685v2.abstract</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Biology25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biology25</span></a></p>
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