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Aline Muyle @aline-muyle.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I am hiring a Postdoc (18 months contract in Montpellier, France) to study how polyploidy affects sex chromosomes in the plant Silene latifolia, using bioinformatic analyses of RNA-seq and DNA-seq data. Deadline for applications March 24th. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/412961

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Post doc position in Evolutionary biology and bioinformatics

- work environment: This postdoctoral position will be supervised by Aline Muyle and hosted at the Institute of Evolutionary Sciences of Montpellier (ISEM), within the CHANGE department and the Plant ...

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Nicolas Galtier @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

New preprint about open science in eco-evo! We sampled 110 journals, 550 articles, and assessed whether data and code are accessible: (1/5) ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... #ScientificPublishing #OpenScience #ecology #conservation #EvolutionaryBiology #paleobio #systematics #archeology

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An overview of open science in eco-evo research and the publisher effect.

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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Since male #cannabis plants do not produce #cannabinoids (THC and CBD) in high concentrations, identifying the sex of the plants is an important practice in agricultural applications of the plant. 1/2🧵

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Marc de Manuel @marcdemanuel.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

📣 Two ERC-funded positions are available in the lab! If you are interested in exploring the mechanisms underlying mutation, we’d love to hear from you. PhD: shorturl.at/Oc04N Postdoc: shorturl.at/1ShHB RPs and shares would be greatly appreciated! 🧪🧬🖥️ #ScienceJobs #PostdocJobs

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17/ How far might this pattern extend? And which aspects are particularly constrained? With increasing genomic data from non-model organisms, it should soon be possible to test this hypothesis more broadly.

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16/ The conservation of these parameters from mammals to zebra finch suggests that many mutation and recombination properties evolve under stabilizing selection in vertebrates.

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15/ Despite the absence of PRDM9 in zebra finch, key recombination features—GC-biased gene conversion (59%), NCO tract length (~23 bp), and estimated NCO:CO ratio (6.7:1)—are very similar to estimates in mice and primates (e.g., tinyurl.com/ynsepayf, tinyurl.com/vrk2hjs6).

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14/ As expected in the absence of PRDM9 (tinyurl.com/2tjkar3j), recombination events overlap with CpG islands more often than expected by chance (with little or no effect of TSS).

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13/ In contrast, micro-chromosomes had significantly higher CO rates (4.21 cM/Mb), reflecting CO homeostasis. Both CO and NCO events were more uniformly distributed here than on macro-chromosomes.

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12/ Focusing on recombination, zebra finches show a sex-averaged CO rate of 1.05 cM/Mb on macro-chromosomes. COs are enriched near telomeres, while NCOs are more evenly spread. That too resembles the pattern in mammals.

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11/ Classifying mutations by developmental timing revealed a paternal germline mutation bias (1.7:1) in later stages of gametogenesis, but no sex difference in mutation rates during early development—similar to mammals (e.g., tinyurl.com/56zy44yh).

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10/ We estimate a sex-averaged mutation rate per bp per generation of 5.0 × 10⁻⁹ in zebra finches, which is comparable to other mammals and birds with similar generation times (tinyurl.com/w8wzkz4x).

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Djivan Prentout @djivanp.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

9/ To explore whether mutation and recombination parameters are similar in birds, we sequenced three-generation pedigrees of zebra finches, gathering information from 80 meiosis. We inferred 202 de novo mutations, 1,174 crossovers (COs), and 275 non-crossovers (NCOs).

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8/ Birds, including zebra finches, offer a unique contrast to mammals: among others, they have micro-chromosomes, distinct recombination mechanisms (lacking PRDM9), and distinct developmental processes.

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7/ To date, few pedigree-based studies have been conducted in non-mammalian vertebrates (but see, e.g., tinyurl.com/2vmfy8dd and tinyurl.com/w8wzkz4x).

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6/ These findings suggest that a number of aspects of mutation and recombination processes may evolve under stabilizing selection in mammals. But how far does this conservation extend?

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5/ Similarly, the sex-averaged recombination rate in dogs (~0.8 cM/Mb, tinyurl.com/34ye8h2s) is close to that of humans (~1.2 cM/Mb, tinyurl.com/3nvbzrmh), even though dogs have almost double the number of chromosomes and a shorter genome.

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4/ For instance, the mutation rate per generation in mice (~0.5e-8, tinyurl.com/39ynhxxw) is only about half that of humans (~1.2 × 10⁻⁸, tinyurl.com/ysb48wtm) despite mice having 50 times shorter generation times.

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3/ Intriguingly, studies in mammals show that mutation and recombination rates are relatively stable over time.

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2/ Most mutation/recombination rate estimates come from a few model organisms (e.g., tinyurl.com/4pshvyez), pedigree sequencing (mainly in mammals, e.g., tinyurl.com/muvdh5tu), and long-read sequencing of male gametes in primates (e.g., tinyurl.com/3ncryv43).

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Djivan Prentout @djivanp.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

1/ A thread about mutation and recombination in vertebrates and what we learned by studying three-generation pedigrees of zebra finches. Take home: the remarkable similarities between birds and mammals in many properties of these fundamental processes.

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16/ The conservation of these parameters from mammals to zebra finch suggests that many mutation and recombination properties evolve under stabilizing selection in vertebrates.

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14/ As expected in the absence of PRDM9 (tinyurl.com/2tjkar3j), recombination events overlap with CpG islands more often than expected by chance (with little or no effect of TSS).

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13/ In contrast, micro-chromosomes had significantly higher CO rates (4.21 cM/Mb), reflecting CO homeostasis. Both CO and NCO events were more uniformly distributed here than on macro-chromosomes.

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7/ To date, few pedigree-based studies have been conducted in non-mammalian vertebrates (but see, e.g., tinyurl.com/2vmfy8dd and tinyurl.com/w8wzkz4x).

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6/ These findings suggest that a number of aspects of mutation and recombination processes may evolve under stabilizing selection in mammals. But how far does this conservation extend?

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3/ Intriguingly, studies in mammals show that mutation and recombination rates are relatively stable over time.

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