Why do some animals continue to live long after they have stopped reproducing?

And what about sex differences in lifespan?

Apply here to find out 😀:

I have ARIES DTP PhD position together with Tracey Chapman, Simone Immler, see below!

aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships...

Woo-hoo! @gmzhang.bsky.social's photo of a morning glory being visited by a bee is on the front cover of Evolution Letters!

(Image accompanying Sasha Bishop's paper, with co-author @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social)

A warm welcome to Dr. Lydia Fong @squarehare.bsky.social joining our lab at @vubrussel.bsky.social as a postdoc after completing her PhD in @judithmank.bsky.social ’s lab at UBC!

She’ll introduce her work at our next DBIO #Seminar👉

Welcome to the lab and to #Brussels, Lydia 😃!

#SexChromosomes 🐸🐠

🦋 Butterfly wing patterns create motion illusions that protect them from predators! Our new study (8 years in the making) is out in Nature today

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

@grahancock.bsky.social @esbriolat.bsky.social
@scienceanna.bsky.social @lauraakelley.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social

Delighted to see that @plosbiology.org has a feature of our guppy paper on their landing page. The real star is the guppy photo by @vdbijl.bsky.social, and I am at peace with this. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Some genomic inversions can persist for millions of years. This study by @judithmank.bsky.social @vdbijl.bsky.social & Yuying Lin reveals how ecological conditions and mate choice help maintain this hidden layer of #genomic diversity in guppies.
🧪#evolution #academicSky
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All this suggests female preference for rare male patterns maintains inversion variants and shows how sexual selection can profoundly shape genome diversity. I hope you enjoy reading it! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... Fin/

Building on Wouter's work on male colour pattern architecture (doi.org/10.1038/s415...), Yuying found that autosomal inversions capture male colour pattern loci far more often than chance, and that these inversions account for a disproportionate share of total pattern variation. 3/

So very, very happy to see this out @plosbiology.org : Ancient inversion polymorphisms associate with sexually selected traits across natural guppy populations. Beautiful work by two very clever and talented coauthors, Yuying Lin and @vdbijl.bsky.social . journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... 1/

I'm looking to hire a postdoc to work on the RepAdapt + MacroMar projects, analysing genomic data from >130 species of plants, animals, and fungi (VCFs are processed, ready to go). Lots of potential for creativity and collaboration!
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please share widely and get in touch to help us recover this tag and learn about the cause of death #conservation #migration #redshank #GPS