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Changyi Xiao

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PhD student at popgen vienna

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@boscogracia.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 3:33 PMReposted by @changyi-xiao.bsky.social

Happy to share the first article of my PhD in @elife.bsky.social:

Environmental temperature is a strong driver of subspecies competition in the #Drosophila #microbiome

You can check it out here:
elifesciences.org/articles/110...

#SymbioSky #MicroSky #symbiosis #AcademicSky🧪

@changyi-xiao.bsky.socialSep 2, 2026, 1:52 PM

This striking mismatch can be explained by pleiotropy

@changyi-xiao.bsky.socialSep 2, 2026, 1:44 PM

However, fitness converges between populations: replicate populations evolved in the two temperature regimes exhibit a similar fitness increase relative to the ancestral populations.

@changyi-xiao.bsky.socialSep 2, 2026, 1:42 PM

Divergence at the genomic level: Consistent with a temperature-specific selection response, we find that 93% of the SNPs with significant allele frequency changes are restricted to one of the two temperature regimes.

@changyi-xiao.bsky.socialSep 2, 2026, 1:30 PM

Experimental Design: We evolved replicated Drosophila simulans populations in laboratory conditions that differed only in their temperature regime. One group of populations evolved under a constant temperature of 23 °C, while the other experienced temperature fluctuations around the same mean.

@changyi-xiao.bsky.socialSep 2, 2026, 1:27 PM

Our paper was accepted at Genome Biology!
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@yiwenc.bsky.social

Genomic and phenotypic signals told different stories in our D. simulans experimental evolution: genomic divergence across environments, but phenotypic convergence. doi.org/10.1186/s13059-026-04250-4

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