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Melisa Olave

@melisaolave.bsky.social
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Evolutionary Biologist 🧬 Associate Researcher (CONICET 🇦🇷) & International Fellow at the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social 🇬🇧, studying genomics of Patagonia’s biodiversity. Trying to replace X 😊. She/her.

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Melisa Olave @melisaolave.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Biogeographical costs and opportunities of thermal adaptation www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
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Biogeographical costs and opportunities of thermal adaptation
What determines where species occur and where they do not? Brightly et al. showed that cold-origin lineages are less likely to form amphitropical distributions. This raises questions about the biogeog...
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Botany One @botany.one · 02/06/2026
Asst Professor - Plant or Fungal Genomics // University of Wyoming jobs.chronicle.com/job/37995586... The Department of Botany and the School of Computing invites applications for a tenure-track position in Plant or Fungal Genomics at the rank of Assistant Professor. #BotanyJobs
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Asst Professor - Plant or Fungal Genomics - Wyoming, United States job with University of Wyoming | 37995586
Asst Professor - Plant or Fungal Genomics Join Our Campus Community! Thank you for your interest in joining the University of Wyoming. Our...
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Laura Bertola @lauradbertola.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The identity crisis of speciation genomics academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...
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The identity crisis of speciation genomics
Abstract. Understanding how reproductive isolation (RI) evolves remains a central goal of speciation research. Quantifying RI is challenging, and researche
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STRIVE @strivestn.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
🧬We are launching STRiVE, a @eseb.bsky.social Special Topic Network on the evolutionary role of structural genomic variation. 🗓️Std: 29/04: Online seminar w/ L. Rieseberg 8-10/07: Kick-off in Porto Join us: structuralvariantsstn.github.io #Evolution #Genomics #StructuralVariants #Biology #PopGen
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Structural Variants ESEB Special Topic Network
ESEB Special Topic Network
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Melisa Olave @melisaolave.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The Tree of Life @sangerinstitute.bsky.social is recruiting at the Group Leader 2 (equivalent to associate professor) or Group Leader 3 (equivalent to full professor) level. More info: sanger.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Wellco...
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Group Leader - Biodiversity Genomics
Do you want to help us improve human health and understand life on Earth? Make your mark by shaping the future to enable or deliver life-changing science to solve some of humanity’s greatest challenge...
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Melisa Olave @melisaolave.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
📢 SNPs2CF v1.7 just released! R functions used to compute concordance factors from SNP data for phylogenetic network inference using PhyloNetworks. Version 1.7 now considers multiple SNPs in a window, boosting informative sites. 🔗 github.com/melisaolave/...
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Biodiversity Genomics course LATAM @ibiogen-latam.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Looking back to a wonderful week of teaching biodiversity genomics in Mendoza, Argentina. The participants from 8 South and Central American countries learned the basics of biodiversity genomics from assessing data quality to performing population and comparative genomics analysis.
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Sociedad Argentina de Biología Evolutiva @evoargentina.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Felicitamos a docentes y estudiantes del curso Genómica de la Biodiversidad @ibiogen-latam.bsky.social! 🧬🤓 En especial a nuestros socios Ivan de Magalhaes @6eyes8legs.bsky.social y Pía Pacheco, ganadores de una beca de traslado de nuestra Sociedad.
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Project Psyche @projectpsyche.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
(1/5)Thrilled to announce our paper on #ProjectPsyche is out! 🦋We describe how we’ve generated 1000+ high-quality genomes for European Lepidoptera, providing an unprecedented resource for biodiversity, conservation, and evolutionary research. #Genomics #Biodiversity www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
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Project Psyche: reference genomes for all Lepidoptera in Europe
Project Psyche is a transnational initiative to generate and study chromosome-level reference genomes of all ~11 000 species of Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) found in Europe. Here, we describe t...
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Melisa Olave @melisaolave.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
@nature.com is starting an AI assistant to read, summarize, and comment on papers, and (I think) it’s free 👀 👉 natureresearchassistant.com?lid=nmw8nz2v...
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Nature Research Assistant: Your new AI-powered research assistant
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Melisa Olave @melisaolave.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Mutation in a splicing enhancer of the DNA repair gene Aplf & an intronic deletion in Dna2 drive chromosomal fission and accelerate speciation in zokor mammals www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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Aplf/Dna2 variants drive chromosomal fission and accelerate speciation in zokors
Aplf splicing defect and Dna2 deletion drove chromosomal fission, potentially exacerbating speciation divergence in zokors.
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Melisa Olave @melisaolave.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Review: A Genomic Perspective on Species Delimitation www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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A Genomic Perspective on Species Delimitation | Annual Reviews
Genomic species delimitation is transforming how we understand and define species by enabling a process-oriented and efficient approach to identifying species boundaries. This review outlines the two ...
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Melisa Olave @melisaolave.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
-Me: OK, I'm ready to accept a single unified species concept. -@nature.com: Two ants, two species, one mother: Iberian harvester ants can produce males that are genetically different species 🤯 Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature
In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...
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Melisa Olave @melisaolave.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Last days to apply! and remember that @evoargentina.bsky.social is offering 2 scholarships of up to ARS 150,000 each to cover travel costs for the Biodiversity Genomics course 🧬 (Nov 24–28, 2025, Mendoza, Argentina).
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Melisa Olave @melisaolave.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
📢 La @evoargentina.bsky.social ofrece 2 becas de hasta ARS 150.000 cada una para cubrir traslado al curso Biodiversity Genomics 🧬 (24-28 nov 2025, Mendoza). ⏳ Postulá hasta el 3/9/25 📄 Formulario: docs.google.com/forms/d/1NWC... ℹ️ Info del curso: biodiversitygenomicslatam.weebly.com
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Joana Meier @joanameier.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Very much looking forward to teaching our second edition of the Latin American biodiversity genomics course, this time in Argentina.
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Melisa Olave @melisaolave.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Introduction to Biodiversity Genomics Course 📅 Nov 24–28, 2025 | 📍 Mendoza, Argentina In-person course for Latin Americans starting with genomic data analysis. 📝 Pre-registration open 🔗 biodiversitygenomicslatam.weebly.com @joanameier.bsky.social @evoargentina.bsky.social
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Melisa Olave @melisaolave.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Introduction to Biodiversity Genomics Course 📅 Nov 24–28, 2025 | 📍 Mendoza, Argentina In-person course for Latin Americans starting with genomic data analysis. 📝 Pre-registration open 🔗 biodiversitygenomicslatam.weebly.com @joanameier.bsky.social @evoargentina.bsky.social
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Nicol Rueda @nicolr.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Happy to share that the second edition of our course will take place in Argentina from November 24th to 28th. Application deadline: September 1st, 2025. biodiversitygenomicslatam.weebly.com
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Joana Meier @joanameier.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Join us on the Wellcome Genome Campus of the Sanger Institute and EBI for a symposium on biodiversity genomics from 27th-29th October! Abstract deadline on 14 July. There is also an option to join via Zoom, but in-person is much nicer if you can make it.
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Dr. Brendan "Doesn't-go-to-Ravenholm" Pinto @drpintothe2nd.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The average American has three friends.
Lizards (photo of a skink), Lizards <italics> (photo of a rattlesnake), Lizards <bold, italics> (photo of a gecko)
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Sociedad Argentina de Biología Evolutiva @evoargentina.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
📢 ¡Atención! Novedades sobre inscripciones, resúmenes, becas y conferencias 🤓 ¡Ya está disponible la Tercera Circular del Congreso Latinoamericano de Evolución! ➡️ iiclevol-tuc-2025.wixsite.com/iiclevol
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David Marques @davidmarques.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Our newest manuscript has just been released as preprint on bioRxiv: Genomes reveal the age and demographic history of ultrafast adaptive radiation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Genomes reveal age and demographic consequence of ultrafast adaptive radiation
New species typically evolve over several million years. However, rates of speciation and ecological diversification vary by orders of magnitude across the tree of life, with the fastest shown by some...
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Melisa Olave @melisaolave.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Excited to be at the Speciation Conference GRC this week! On Wednesday, I'll be presenting on the mechanisms driving the fastest speciating lizards on Earth: the rapid radiation of Liolaemus lizards. See you there! 🙂
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Sociedad Argentina de Biología Evolutiva @evoargentina.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Dean Adams llega al Congreso Latinoamericano de Evolución 2025! ¿Cómo estudiar la evolución de rasgos complejos? 📊🧬 Dean nos trae herramientas innovadoras en su conferencia: "New Methods for Understanding the Evolution of Multivariate Phenotypes" 🔍
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Matt Carling @mdcarling.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This is absolutely devastating www.wired.com/story/nation...
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National Science Foundation Fires 168 Workers as Federal Purge Continues
Firings at the NSF included permanent employees who had already completed their one-year probationary period, as well as at-will workers.
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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Applications open! The LinneSys grant supports small-scale research and education projects in the fields of taxonomy and systematics on any organism group with grants of up to £1,500. Follow the link below! www.linnean.org/the-... @systassn.bsky.social
An open wooden drawer containing pinned butterflies of varying sizes and patterns.
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Matthew Herron @matthewherron.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I lost my job at the National Science Foundation yesterday, along with 167 of my colleagues, including some dear friends. This was the best job I've ever had, and I thought it would be my last. The PI community has been sympathetic and supportive, without exception. I will miss working for you.
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Sociedad Argentina de Biología Evolutiva @evoargentina.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
¡El Congreso Latinoamericano de Evolución 2025 te espera! 🧬 📢 Abrimos convocatorias para: ✨ Simposios ✨ Mesas Redondas ✨ Cursos post-congreso ⏳ Fecha límite: 30 de marzo 📝info: iiclevol-tuc-2025.wixsite.com/iiclevol
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Nora Bär @norabar.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
😍Por primera vez desde que empezó a otorgarse (en los años 70), dos latinoamericanos recibirán el Premio Tyler considerado el "Nobel del Ambiente": la argentina Sandra Díaz y el brasileño Eduardo Brondizio. Chapeau! 🎩 ¡Dos gigantes! 💝 www.eldestapeweb.com/sociedad/cie...
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Otorgan el “Nobel del Ambiente” a la cordobesa Sandra Díaz y el brasileño Eduardo Brondizio
Otorgan el “Nobel del Ambiente” a la cordobesa Sandra Díaz y el brasileño Eduardo Brondizio. Es la primera vez que se confiere a voces del sur global.
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Melisa Olave @melisaolave.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Si sos Latinoamericano/a puede interesarte este llamado a postular a beca de CONICET🇦🇷 en Biología Evolutiva (especiación, filogeografía, filogenias, hibridación, adaptaciones). Se trabajará en un proyecto en colaboración con el Wellcome Sanger Institute (UK). Comienza Agosto 2025. Más info debajo👇
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Sociedad Argentina de Biología Evolutiva @evoargentina.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
En la pasada V Reunión Argentina de Biología Evolutiva tuvimos un Simposio Extendido de Evo-Devo 🤓 Pasen a conocer el reporte que nos traen @marinastrelin.bsky.social y Eduardo Zattara!
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Sociedad Argentina de Biología Evolutiva @evoargentina.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Difundimos convocatoria! 🤓 Llamado a candidatos/as a solicitar Becas del CONICET en el Grupo de Genómica Evolutiva de Plantas (IBAM, UNCuyo, Mendoza) Más detalles en el cartel 👇🏾
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Melisa Olave @melisaolave.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Excellent PhD fellowship opportunity! PhD fellowship Marie Curie in Evolutionary Hologenomics: understanding the role of gut microorganisms in evolutionary dietary shifts. Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen More info: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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PhD fellowship Marie Curie in Evolutionary Hologenomics: understanding the role of gut microorganisms in evolutionary dietary shifts
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Melisa Olave @melisaolave.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Si sos Latinoamericano/a puede interesarte este llamado a postular a beca de CONICET🇦🇷 en Biología Evolutiva (especiación, filogeografía, filogenias, hibridación, adaptaciones). Se trabajará en un proyecto en colaboración con el Wellcome Sanger Institute (UK). Comienza Agosto 2025. Más info debajo👇
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American Naturalist / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Apply now for the ASN Student Research Awards by March 14! Ten awards of $2k each will be given to research that advances the the conceptual unification of ecology, evolution, or behavior. More info here: bit.ly/asn_grant_25
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Student Research Award
<p>The ASN Student Research Awards support research by student members that advances the goals of the society: the conceptual unification of ecology, evolution, and behavior. Each award consists of a ...
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Mariella Herberstein (she/her) 🌈 @mherberstein.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
We are hiring a new entomological curator in Hamburg at the Leibniz institute for the analysis of biodiversity change… Please share and apply!!! 8101202752.karriereportal.cloud/job/2024-20-...
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Karriereportal für Bewerbungen
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Jorge Aliaga @jorgeluisaliaga.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Sigo mirando lo que actualizó la Oficina Nacional de Presupuesto. ¿Hay mucha diferencia entre prorrogado y presentado para 2025? Depende del organismo, poco en CONICET, mucho en SICyT, Agencia, UUNN, ...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 22/01/2025
“The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating.” scim.ag/40ureTO
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Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing
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Tracy Heath @trayc7.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
There is one week to apply for the 2025 Workshop on Molecular Evolution (MOLE) at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA! More info here: molevolworkshop.github.io Apply here: www.mbl.edu/education/ad... Application deadline: Jan. 29th Workshop dates: May 22nd - June 1st
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Workshop on Molecular Evolution
Since 1988, the Workshop on Molecular Evolution at Woods Hole has provided essential training in the theory and methods of molecular evolution.
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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Just a few days left to apply for the Undergraduate Diversity at Evolution program! Participants receive funding, mentoring, and a presentation opportunity at #Evol2025 in Athens, GA. Apply by Monday! buff.ly/4eExoFL @evolmtg.bsky.social
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Nora Bär @norabar.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
😱👇👇👇
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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Are you or do you know an undergrad interested in evolution? The SSE Undergraduate Diversity at Evolution program provides funding, mentoring, and a presentation opportunity at #Evol2025. Applications due Monday! buff.ly/4eExoFL
Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Undergraduate Diversity at Evolution Program. Applications due January 20, 2025. Background is a blue and orange abstract painting.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Bluesky now has 27 million users. That's the population of Australia. Welcome to Australia.
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Jhan C. Salazar, PhD @jhancsalazar.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
The first chapter of my dissertation is finally out. Thanks to all my co-authors and mentors. Gustavo Londoño, Martha Muñoz (@marthamunoz.bsky.social ), Don Miles (@lizardprof.bsky.social) and Rosario Castañeda doi.org/10.1093/evol... (1/5).
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Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Parallel and convergent evolution in genes underlying seasonal migration doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Luz E Zamudio-Beltrán et al.
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Tanja Slotte @tanjaslotte.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
For students interested in evolution & DNA sequence variation: At Stockholm University we are offering a Masters programme in Evolutionary Genomics from fall 2025. Application deadline soon - Jan 15, 2025! www.su.se/english/sear... #evolution #genomics #masters #HigherEd
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Master’s programme in Evolutionary Genomics - Stockholm University
Digital Course Catalogue of Stockholm University
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Melisa Olave @melisaolave.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Today I’m officially starting as an International Fellow at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. I’ll be working with @joanameier.bsky.social on genomics of the spectacular rapid radiation of Liolaemus lizards 🦎 chin chin 🥂
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Melisa Olave @melisaolave.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
I guess I would write something similar about BEAST I ❤️ BEAST (even though ASTRAL is awsome 😅) #2ndGenerationOfPhylogeneticist
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Andrew Hipp @andrewlhipp.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
New study by @tribblelab.bsky.social @jimarcor.bsky.social @marcialescudero.bsky.social Michael May, Rosana Zenil-Ferguson and myself just out: Introduces a novel HiSSE chromosome model and demonstrates the importance of chrom. evol. in #sedge diversity. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Fig. 1: The Chromosome number and Hidden State-dependent Speciation and Extinction (ChromoHiSSE) model. Panel (a) describes the event rates allowed in the model for both cladogenetic (upper) and anagenetic (lower) events. Panels (b) and (c) demonstrate those rates on a tree simulated under ChromoHiSSE. Branches that do not reach the present represent extinct, unsampled lineages. Panel (b) shows the anagenetic and cladogenetic changes in the hidden states, indicated by blue (i) vs orange (ii). Panel (c) shows the anagenetic and cladogenetic gains and losses of chromosomes, as well as speciation with no corresponding change in chromosome numbers. More red colors in (c) correspond to more chromosomes. The vertical blue and orange bars in (c) indicate clades in the blue (i) vs orange (ii) hidden states, displaying that chromosome number changes are less frequent in the blue hidden state than in the orange. The asterisk in (c) demarcates where a cladogenetic dysploidy event could appear as an anagenetic event because of unsampled lineages.
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