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Animal Ecology // Dept. Ecology & Genetics // Evolutionary Biology Centre // Uppsala University @uu.se SWEDEN www.uu.se/en/department/ecology-and…

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Katerina Guschanski @kguschan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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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María cortazar-chinarro @cortazar-chinarro.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Our new pre-print is out 😀!! @eleonoresusi.bsky.social , @patrikrodinmorch.bsky.social, @jhog.bsky.social, amd the rest of co-author for their contributions: Filip Thorn and Anssi Laurila. (See below)
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María cortazar-chinarro @cortazar-chinarro.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
​🚨 possible Postdoc Position! ​Looking for a postdoc to study Bd (chytrid fungus) disease dynamics with my team. ​We will be teaming up to co-write a fellowship application for the Wenner-Gren Foundations. ​Interested? Send me a DM! 🧪🦠✨ www.swgc.org/postdoktorss...
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Animal Ecology Uppsala @animecol-uu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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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Animal Ecology Uppsala @animecol-uu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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.
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Thanks #ISME20 from the Videvall lab for a great conference! We had a lot of fun, meeting new and old friends, learning about various microbes, and presenting our research. @isme-microbes.bsky.social @animecol-uu.bsky.social @cenkvist.bsky.social @estermart.bsky.social
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Animal Ecology Uppsala @animecol-uu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In a new paper from Ksenia Khudiakova and Nick Barton, Göran shows that the diversifying effects of balancing selection can be "contagious" and spread to other regions of the genome, if epistasis is strong and shows context-specific dominance. Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
@estermart.bsky.social is presenting her poster on gut microbiota in a flycatcher cross-fostering experiment! Right now in the Animal Microbiome session. #ISME20
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Pilar López Hernández is currently presenting her poster "Could aquatic insects spread AMR?" #ISME20
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
We're four people from the Videvall lab currently traveling from Sweden to New Zealand, to attend the international conference in microbial ecology #ISME20. 🌏 Looking forward to it! 🦠🧬 @estermart.bsky.social @cenkvist.bsky.social
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Animal Ecology Uppsala @animecol-uu.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Tim Janicke, Göran Arnqvist and colleagues have a new paper out discussing how biological sex is rooted in anisogamy (different gamete sizes) and how this relates to broader evolutionary patterns of sex-specific selection. You can read more about it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Biological Sex Is Binary and Rooted in Anisogamy
Drawing on empirical evidence and evolutionary theory, we argue that biological sex is most coherently defined as a binary classification of reproductive strategies rooted in anisogamy (the productio...
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Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich @gmkov.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Representing all the amazing research at the Evolutionary Biology Centrum from Uppsala University #SMBE2026 @animecol-uu.bsky.social @evobiouppsala.bsky.social
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I did an interview on the MVIF podcast with @pamferretti.bsky.social about wild animal microbiomes, for anyone interested! 🦠🧬
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Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich @gmkov.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Congratulations to Raissa Rausch for smashing her master thesis defence last week 💪🏽🙌 she has worked on simulating bottlenecks during biocontrol releases in islands. Super #proudPI @animecol-uu.bsky.social
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Animal Ecology Uppsala @animecol-uu.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Huge congrats to Dr. Maddi Garate Olaizola (@garate-olaizola.bsky.social) for defending her thesis titled "Early life performance in Eastern Baltic cod: responses to environmental challenges" on Friday June 6th with Dr. Marta Moyano from NIVA as her opponent. We are all very proud of her :)
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Thanks to Kasun Bodawatta @kbodawatta.bsky.social for visiting us at @animecol-uu.bsky.social Uppsala University! Kasun gave a very interesting talk about eDNA methods, such as using mosses, to survey the local flora and fauna. 🧬
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Animal Ecology Uppsala @animecol-uu.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Last week we had our Animal Ecology day organized by Gabi'a (@gmkov.bsky.social) group and Uppsala Botanical Garden www.uu.se/en/botanical... (who kindly allowed us to run and around with nets), where we were tasked to classify the invertebrate diversity around the Botanical garden and Hågadalen🦋🪲🪰
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Congratulations Qianrui Yang, who successfully defended her MSc thesis today! Well done! Her thesis investigated both gut microbiomes and mitochondrial metabolic rate in hybrid Ficedula flycatchers. 🐦🦠🧬🩸 @animecol-uu.bsky.social
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David Simons @davidsimons.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
After a couple of failed applications, I am very excited that one panned out. I will be starting my first independently funded fellowship in September! My project will be hosted at the @animecol-uu.bsky.social Uppsala University #DiseaseEcology #Microbiome #SpatialEpidemiology #Hantavirus
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Animal Ecology Uppsala @animecol-uu.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Today @joshuahufton.bsky.social held his half-time seminar in Sand lizard methylation and ”gene regulation, transposable elements and environmental responses”
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Animal Ecology Uppsala @animecol-uu.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Huge congrats to @garate-olaizola.bsky.social for nailing her thesis on early life-stages in Baltic cod. Her defense will be held on june 5th. Find her thesis here: uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record...
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Animal Ecology Uppsala @animecol-uu.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Today our program was represented by two great talks by @gmkov.bsky.social and @vonschmalensee.bsky.social on AI usage during our department day. Loke spoke on agentic AI and Gabriela spoke on APIs!
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Animal Ecology Uppsala @animecol-uu.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
We have a new exiting PhD position in our program on the skin microbiome of amphibians, supervised by @cortazar-chinarro.bsky.social! Follow the link to read more and apply: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/.... Deadline the 8th of May.
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PhD in Evolutionary Ecology and genomics - Uppsala University
PhD in Evolutionary Ecology and genomics, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University
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Animal Ecology Uppsala @animecol-uu.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
We have a new exiting opportunity to join our program with a new PhD position supervised by @dbergerbiol.bsky.social co-supervised by @gmkov.bsky.social on the repeatability of evolution in seed beetles! Click the link to read more and apply! www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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PhD-student in Evolutionary and Ecological Genetics - Uppsala University
PhD-student in Evolutionary and Ecological Genetics, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
New review paper on bird #microbiome methods out! Bridging the gap: improving methodologies for future avian microbiome research 🐦🦠🧬 #OA @avianbiology.bsky.social @charlisdavies.bsky.social @kbodawatta.bsky.social nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Bridging the gap: improving methodologies for future avian microbiome research
Recent advances in the field of wild avian microbiome research have significantly deepened our understanding of the eco-evolutionary dynamics of bird–microbe interactions. Consequently, the field is ...
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Animal Ecology Uppsala @animecol-uu.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Huge congratulations to our newest Dr. Theodore Squires for defending his thesis on the ”Evolutionary ecogenomics of North Atlantic ptarmigan” at the University of Akureyri, Iceland. You can read his thesis here uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record...
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Animal Ecology Uppsala @animecol-uu.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
This week we had a visit from Dr. Nathalie Feiner from the Max Planck institute in Plönn, where she spoke about her work on common wall lizards and the origin and developmental background of the ‘nigriventris syndrome’.
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Per Alström @peralstrom.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Check our Open Access paper on the Tokara Leaf Warbler – a previously undescribed, threatened Japanese bird: doi.org/10.1093/pnas... Thx to all coauthors: Takema Saitoh, @dariashipilina.bsky.social. Shin-Ichi Seki, Canwei Xia, Lijun Zhang & Urban Olsson. @animecol-uu.bsky.social #birds #biodiversity
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Animal Ecology Uppsala @animecol-uu.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I am pleased to announce this account is now run by me, @cenkvist.bsky.social. I am a PhD student working on microbiome and diet in wolverines 🦠. I am exited to share all about the amazing research happening at our program! Thank you to Yishu Zhu for her great work running the account before me! 😊
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Animal Ecology Uppsala @animecol-uu.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Lingyu Zeng, Göran Arnqvist et al. show that the extreme cold tolerance of the khapra beetle has a quite complex genetic architecture, involving several genes involved in stress signalling but also those than mediate general metabolic processes 🧬 Check it out at link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Functional genomics reveals key gene families and molecular pathways for extreme cold survival in the khapra beetle - BMC Biology
Background The khapra beetle (Trogoderma granarium Everts) is among the world’s most destructive invasive pests, threatening food security and international trade. Its larvae exhibit exceptional resil...
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Per Alström @peralstrom.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
and Emerging Technologies in Bird Monitoring and Research: Artificial Intelligence, eDNA, Remote Sensing, and Other Approaches: www.keaipublishing.com/en/journals/...
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Per Alström @peralstrom.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
The international ornithological journal Avian Research, which publishes Open Access for FREE, has calls for two special issues: Avian Conservation in the Anthropocene: Challenges, Innovations, and Future Directions: lnkd.in/dcWNqPxu (deadline 31 December 2026) and
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Per Alström @peralstrom.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Congratulations to my former student Zongzhuang Liu for publishing a paper on Weak nuclear divergence despite pronounced mitochondrial divergence within a widespread desert-inhabiting Palearctic lark (Aves: Alaudidae). See doi.org/10.1111/zsc.... (Open Access)
Bar-tailed Lark Ammomanes cincture Photo: Zongzhuang Liu
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Per Alström @peralstrom.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Congratulations to my former student Lei Wu who recently published "Parallel divergence with shared barriers and niche separation between two sympatric avian species groups" (dx.doi.org/10.1111/jse....) (Open Access). Willow Tit Poecile montanus and Marsh Tit P. palustris species groups in China
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Animal Ecology Uppsala @animecol-uu.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Huge congrats to Neele Schmidt for successfully defending her PhD thesis “Ecosystem restoration through restocking hatchling cod in the Baltic Sea” 🎉🐟 Neele addressed several ecological challenges in the endeaver of restocking cod hatchlings. Read the thesis at: uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record...
Neele giving an overview of the background of the thesis
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Qvarnström Lab @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Last week the annual @animecol-uu.bsky.social symposium, 'Revolution', counted with several presentations from the students and researchers in our lab! Yishu Zhu, Ana Gomes, Sophia Stratton, Michaëla Berdougo, and Anna Qvarnström presented the most recent updates on the flycatchers work!
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Alexei Maklakov @alexeimaklakov.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Great Revolution at @animecol-uu.bsky.social : thank you for inviting me, fun to be on the other side of the barricades this time 😀
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Charlotte Enkvist @cenkvist.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Today I had the chance to show some preliminary data from my wolverine #microbiome project at our program symposia Revolution @animecol-uu.bsky.social 🦠
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
#Revolution2026 has officially started! 😃 Looking forward to two fun science-filled days. Invited speakers are Anna Runemark and Alexei Maklakov. @animecol-uu.bsky.social
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Animal Ecology Uppsala @animecol-uu.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Our annual programme symposium, 'Revolution', is here again! The two days ahead will be full of great science 🧬
Programme head Anna Qvarnström starting the event. An event flyer is in the foreground.
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Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich @gmkov.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
We’ve been working on this paper longer than it took adaptive alleles to cross the species barrier (in both directions) and make two pests ever more resistant to the things we throw at them. New preprint out 🧬🌱🐛
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María cortazar-chinarro @cortazar-chinarro.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Happy to announce that we have a new pre-print out. We analyzed the 16s microbiome profiling of two different Baltic cod poputions in the Eastern baltic sea 😀. doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Gill-associated microbiome as indicators of population stress and condition in Eastern Baltic Cod
The skin microbiome contributes to host health by facilitating pathogen exclusion, priming the immune system modulation and maintaining skin homeostasis. We examined how the composition of the skin mi...
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Ana Cristina Gomes @anacrgomes.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Master Projects available in the Qvarnström lab @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social studying climate adaptation and speciation using a natural flycatcher hybrid zone on Öland, Sweden! Check available projects here 👇👇 drive.google.com/file/d/1B69x...
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María cortazar-chinarro @cortazar-chinarro.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
SAD NEWS! we have found Ranavirus for the first time in scandinavian península affecting wild amphibian populations doi.org/10.3354/dao0...
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Interested in applying for a postdoc on wildlife #microbiomes in my lab at Uppsala University, Sweden? The local Birgitta Sintring Foundation gives out generous 2-year postdoc scholarships to early-career researchers who apply with a PI at the department. Deadline Feb 9. www.uu.se/en/departmen...
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The Birgitta Sintring Foundation – Department of Ecology and Genetics – Uppsala University
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Animal Ecology Uppsala @animecol-uu.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
New paper alert! 📜 200 gen of strong sexual selection in beetles 🪲 causes divergent evolution of male and female traits, possibly through more divergent expression of reproductive proteins . Work by Arnqvist group. Check it out 👇 academic.oup.com/evlett/advan... #evolution
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The effects of sexual selection on functional and molecular reproductive divergence during experimental evolution in seed beetles
Abstract. Sexual selection can be an engine of divergent evolution between closely related lineages, as a result of idiosyncratic coevolution of male and f
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Two weeks left to apply for this position! Feel free to email if there are any questions.
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Happy to share the recent paper by Marta Garrigós et al. Effects of avian #Plasmodium exposure on the #microbiota of #Culex pipiens. 🦟🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Marta spent a month in our group at UU last year; great to see this published! @jmartinezpuente.bsky.social @cenkvist.bsky.social
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Effects of avian Plasmodium exposure on the microbiota of Culex pipiens - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Effects of avian Plasmodium exposure on the microbiota of Culex pipiens
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María cortazar-chinarro @cortazar-chinarro.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Happy to share that I got 6M sek FORMAS career grant to continue investigating infection diseases in amphibian species and its relation to immunity and microbiome and the huge opportunity to be a lab leader! 😀
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
📢 We have an open position for a postdoc to join my lab. It's a great position @animecol-uu.bsky.social, fully salaried for 2.5 years with all benefits. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... The project is about transmission patterns of bacteria and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in aquatic insects. 🧬🦠 (1/3)
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Postdoctoral researcher in molecular ecology - Uppsala University
Postdoctoral researcher in molecular ecology, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University
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