Animal Ecology Uppsala

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Animal Ecology // Dept. Ecology & Genetics // Evolutionary Biology Centre // Uppsala University @uu.se SWEDEN

https://www.uu.se/en/department/ecology-and-genetics/research/animal-ecology

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Crazy monkeys have crazy genomes! New preprint by @axeljensen.bsky.social investigates karyotypic evolution in African guenons www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
These primates are infamous for high genetic, phenotypic, ecological & karyotypic variation, they diversified 12mya and still they hybridise!

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Today we had prof. Maria Servedio (@servedio.bsky.social) from University of North Carolina come give our annual von Hofsten lecture. She gave an excellent and thought-provoking talk on how we should be mindful of generalizing our evolutionary models.

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Last week on Friday, our PhD student Yishu Zhu had her thesis nailing. She will defend her thesis titled "Divergence in mitochondrial aerobic metabolism and ecological speciations" on October 9th.