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rileyshultz.bsky.social

@rileyshultz.bsky.social

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PhD candidate at Purdue University studying mutation and mutation response in honey bees.

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Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The September issue of MBE is now live on our website - jump in to read the latest advances in molecular evolution. 🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/issue/43/9 🖌️ @rileyshultz.bsky.social #societyjournal #evobio #molbio

Molecular Biology and Evolution | September 2026 cover

A comic-style ivory-eyed drone makes his first (and likely last) flight from Apiary City. Shultz and colleagues tracked a recessive deleterious mutation from its birth to death in honey bees (https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag156). Two drones are shown emerging from the comb, highlighting the mutant eye phenotype. The left honeycomb stack depicts the multi-omic approach used to fully characterize the ivory phenotype. Artwork by Riley Shultz.

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Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Shultz @beeharpur.bsky.social et al. documented the trajectory of a spontaneous deleterious mutation from its origin in a single queen to its extinction, directly observing how haplodiploidy exposes recessive alleles to immediate purifying selection 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag156 #societyjournal

MBE | The life history of recessive deleterious alleles as seen through the eyes of a honey bee (Apis mellifera)

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