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Reposted by Diego F. Morales-Briones

Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Incomplete climate-driven peripatric speciation in #Moehringia sect. Moehringia (Caryophyllaceae) in the European #Alps New #AJB research by Joachim Kadereit, Kirra McLeod, Audie Putra, Gudrun Kadereit & @dfmoralesb.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience

Moehringia bavaria ssp. bavarica growing in a crevice on a grey limestone rock face, with trailing green stems, narrow leaves, and small white five-petaled flowers. (Credit: J.W. Kadereit.)

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Reposted by Diego F. Morales-Briones

Sebastian Höhna @hoehna.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

PhD position available in evolutionary genomics/bioinformatics (hoehnalab.github.io/job_adverts/...). Topic: analyzing gene expression evolution across several firefly species and linking expression changes to genomic architecture. The position is jointly supervised with @anaevolcatalan.bsky.social

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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

CAM #photosynthesis discovered for the first time in a carnivorous plant Scientists from @SNSB and @lmumuenchen.bsky.social have found out in experiments with Pinguicula (butterworts). Read more open access in our journal Plant Biology doi.org/10.1111/plb.... #PlantSci

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Yes, we CAM! First evidence of CAM photosynthesis in a carnivorous plant

Evidence for weak, facultative CAM is reported for the first time in a carnivorous plant, i.e., in Mexican representatives of Pinguicula (Lentibulariaceae).

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Reposted by Diego F. Morales-Briones

Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Astragalean819: An Astragalean clade-specific bait set to resolve phylogenetic relationships in #Astragalus New in #AppsPlantSci by Daniele Buono, Gudrun Kadereit & @dfmoralesb.bsky.social bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #phylogenetics #botany #Fabaceae #plantscience

Coalescent species tree inferred by ASTRAL-Pro based on 819 homologous gene trees. Numbers to the right of nodes indicate local posterior probability. Pie charts at internal nodes indicate the percentage of quartets in gene trees that agree with the shown main topology (green; average 60.6%, minimum 39.3%, maximum 92.6%), the first alternative topology (yellow; average 18.6%, minimum 3.9%, maximum 36.9%), and the second alternative topology (orange; average 20.8%, minimum 3.5%, maximum 39.4%).

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Reposted by Diego F. Morales-Briones

Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Building a robust backbone for #Astragalus using a clade-specific target enrichment bait set New #AJB research by Daniele Buono, Gudrun Kadereit, Aaron Liston, Shahin Zarre & Diego Morales-Briones doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #Fabaceae

Herbarium specimen of Astragalus onobrychis L., one of about 22,000 Astragalus treasures in Munich’s collection gathered from every continent.

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Reposted by Diego F. Morales-Briones

Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Advancing phylogenomics in #Amaranthaceae s.s.: Development and application of a new nuclear target enrichment bait set New in #AppsPlantSci by ‪@tinakiedaisch.bsky.social, Kadereit, Žerdoner Čalasan & @dfmoralesb.bsky.social bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany #phylogenomics

Violin plot showing the number of recovered genes reaching 50% (solid line) and 75% (dotted line) of the reference length across the five major clades of Amaranthaceae s.s., as well as the two genera Bosea and Charpentiera.

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Diego F. Morales-Briones @dfmoralesb.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Happy to see this one out. We did a phylogenetic analysis of African Sesuvium using herbarium collections and genome skimming. We assembled ~9000 loci from orthologous genes identified from transcriptome data. We also described a new species! 🌿 #evobio #iamabotanist www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Phylogenomics and Systematics of African Sesuvium (Aizoaceae)

Sesuvium (Sesuvioideae-Aizoaceae) comprises leaf succulent annual and perennial herbs distributed in coastal or saline sites of subtropical and tropical regions. Some species of the genus tolerate hig...

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Reposted by Diego F. Morales-Briones

Michael Landis @landismj.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Here's a starter pack for early career researchers in evolutionary biology. I prioritized the most-junior folks, and this list quickly filled up with undergrads, grad students, and postdocs. Might do another list later, but I'm tired. Have fun everyone! 🐒 #evobio go.bsky.app/MzND7nX

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