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Mukta Joshi

@muktajoshi.bsky.social

PostDoc @GeorgiaTech Evolutionary genomics, Speciation Alumnus of IISER Pune, University of Oulu Website - muktajoshi.owlstown.net

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Ethan Gyllenhaal @ethanofthegulls.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Group project from the @jdmanthey.bsky.social lab that I led is out in Molecular Ecology! We used whole-genome data to understand Pleistocene forest refugia in central Africa in Yellow-whiskered Greenbul, a species found across most forest habitat in the region: doi.org/10.1111/mec.... 🧵

Map showing the study taxon, an olive bird with yellow "whiskers" coming down from its bill, and a map of Africa with three colored points representing West, Central, and East populations.

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Mukta Joshi @muktajoshi.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Happy to see this work finally published! We investigated known barcode divergence patterns in alpine Lepidoptera in the light of genomics and uncovered hidden diversity in Symmoca signella species complex, leading to 2 new species descriptions. academic.oup.com/isd/article/...

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Genomics helps resolve allopatric COI (Cytochrome c oxidase subunit I) divergences in selected alpine Lepidoptera and allows for a taxonomic revision of the Symmoca signella species-complex (Autostich...

Abstract. European Lepidoptera have been subject of dense sampling for their DNA barcodes because of several active regional DNA barcoding initiatives. Thi

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