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Cecile Molinier

@cecilemolinier.bsky.social

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Post-doc researcher in evolutionary biology.

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Cecile Molinier @cecilemolinier.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Happy to share our new bioRxiv preprint 🔗https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.05.723031v1 🌊 We show repeatable patterns of introgression across continents, even when different lineages hybridize, emphasizing the role of demographic history in speciation in cryptic Ectocarpus species!

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Haplotype tagging sheds light on speciation between two divergent cryptic species of the brown algae Ectocarpus www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Henry Arenas-Castro @henryarenas.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Applications to the Gordon Research Seminar in Speciation are now open! We encourage PhD students & postdocs from all geographies, backgrounds, disciplines to APPLY! This 2d seminar in beautiful Lucca 🇮🇹 will be followed by a 5d conference open to the broader community. www.grc.org/speciation-g...

Screenshot of the registration page of the Gordon Research Seminar in Speciation 2027 at Lucca, Italy

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Cecile Molinier @cecilemolinier.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

The final part of the story: "The arduous path to obligate asexuality in Daphnia" is out in #ProcB 🥳 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article.... 1. Instead of comparing long-established asexuals to sexuals, we generated new asexual lineages to observe the transition in action.

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 03/03/2026

The arduous path to obligate asexuality in #Daphnia #ProcB #OpenAccess #Evolution #Genetics royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

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Cecile Molinier @cecilemolinier.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Rare Sex in “Obligate” Asexuals. Earlier this year, I was pleased that the first part of our work on Daphnia reproductive modes was published in JEB doi.org/10.1093/jeb/.... In brief, females from so-called obligate parthenogenetic lineages, are in fact able to rarely reproduce sexually. Thread👇

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Quentin Martinez @quentinwildlife.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Olfaction written in bones 👃🧠🦴🧬 Thrilled to see our latest study showing that the olfactory bulb endocast is a reliable proxy for mammalian olfaction, now published in @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Thread 👇

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Benoit Nabholz @benoitevol.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

What’s your favorite Wildlife Photographer of the Year image? Mine is the gathering of treefrogs by my friend and colleague Quentin Martinez : @quentinwildlife.bsky.social www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/gallery/...

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Frolicking Frogs | Wildlife Photographer of the Year | Natural History Museum

Quentin Martinez (France) discovers a gathering of lesser tree frogs in a breeding event.

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