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Sam Sturiale

@samstur.bsky.social
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PhD candidate at Georgetown University interested in thermal biology and the role of plasticity in invasions using 🦟 | Previously studied plasticity in 🦗

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Renjie Zhang @renjiezhang.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Congrats Jack!! 🦗🧬 So excited to see this one out—fantastic work! This work investigates how cricket populations have adapted at the genomic level following the introduction of the parasitoid fly and show how this novel selective pressure has shaped both population structure and genetic variation.
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American Naturalist / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Weiss et al. use field observations, experiments, and simulations to demonstrate that periodical cicada nymphs use skototaxis (orientation and movement towards dark objects), to march unerringly to their molting trees at night. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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bioRxiv Ecology @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Different transcriptional responses to developmental versus short-term acclimation temperatures in Pieris rapae www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Jack Rayner @jackrayner.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
We have a preprint out for our study testing conditions/signatures of repeated adaptation in multiple wild cricket populations. Feedback welcome! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Genomic signatures of local adaptation across parasitised cricket populations
Host-parasite interactions are predicted to exhibit geographic heterogeneity, creating the opportunity for local adaptation. This is difficult to detect because it requires knowledge of selection pres...
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