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WGDip @wgdip.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Congratulations to Lukasz Niezabitowski, @roisinlong.bsky.social , @phylogenie.bsky.social & Aoife McLysaght on their paper “A comprehensive and accessible database of jawed-vertebrate ohnologs” 🐟🧪 Read here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Access the database here: ohnologs.com

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A comprehensive and accessible database of jawed-vertebrate ohnologs

A reliable ohnolog database yields insights into vertebrate evolution.

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WGDip @wgdip.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The #WGDip team kicked off 2026 with an in-person meeting hosted at the Wellcome Genome Campus✨. We had a fun, science-packed two days that strongly advanced our plans to work together across both our research and science outreach plans - it's going to be an exciting year!

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Dearbhaile Casey @dervc.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Yesterday @vibe2025.bsky.social I spoke about my work on mechanisms driving Rediploidisation after autopolyploidisation in the Acipenseriformes and Hox cluster Evolution in these fish! @wgdip.bsky.social

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Peter Mulhair @petermulhair.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Latest work out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social We find the fly development gene bicoid is much older than previously thought (~20 million yrs older!) 🪰🧬 To pinpoint its origins we tackled the Diptera phylogeny, providing some resolution (many open questions remain). 🔗 tinyurl.com/2vyuevpy

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Revised evolutionary relationships within Brachycera and the early origin of bicoid in flies

Mulhair et al. uncover a functional bicoid in non-cyclorrhaphan flies, pushing the gene's origin back by ∼20 million years. Reassessing the Diptera phylogeny using the largest dataset to date permits ...

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Revised evolutionary relationships within Brachycera and the early origin of bicoid in flies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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WGDip @wgdip.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

We held the first (mostly) in person meeting of the WGDip project. It was a great opportunity to foster discourse across the consortium and align our goals for the project. We are all eager to get started and delve into whole genome duplication and rediploidisation in eukaryotic evolution!☀️ 🌍 #WGDip

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