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Robert Reed

@fascinatingpupa.bsky.social

828 followers 175 following 15 posts

Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. Curator of Lepidoptera. Evo-devologist. Bug nut. Cornell University.

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Robert Reed @fascinatingpupa.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Regulatory modularity across a spectrum, from Jeanne McDonald's new review paper in TREE. What's the reality for your favorite gene? #evodevo www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Robert Reed @fascinatingpupa.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

Lep Soc 2024 abstracts are due today! Please join us in Ithaca for an exciting meeting filled with field trips, blacklighting, workshops, and presentations. Questions: meeting@lepsoc.org

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Robert Reed @fascinatingpupa.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

(3/3) And look at this quantitive variation in pigmentation you can get from different promoter deletions. This work was a collab with @lucalivraghi.bsky.social and @evolvwing.bsky.social - check out their parallel preprint comparing across species! #evodevo www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Robert Reed @fascinatingpupa.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

(2/3) We were amazed to see the ivory lncRNA is perfectly expressed in color patterns. Beautiful in situs by PhD student Noah Brady:

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Robert Reed @fascinatingpupa.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

(1/3) Congrats @hwkmthcrspr.bsky.social for his new preprint showing how cis-elements of the ivory lncRNA control pigmentation and seasonal morphs in butterflies. Check out these CRISPR summer/autumn mosaics! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Robert Reed @fascinatingpupa.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

Someone told you there are only two anteroposterior domains in insect wings? Well, it turns out ol' Snodgrass was right - there are more! Check out our new preprint! #evodevo www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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