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Samuel Vanden Abeele

@samuelvdabeele.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral research associate at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences & BopCo || Evolutionary biologist || Species delimitation, phylogeography, population genetics, kinship analysis

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TETTRIX @tettrix.eu · 07/10/2026
Hello from our #TETTRIXkickoff meeting in Brussels! 👋🇧🇪 In the next 3 days, all TETTRIX partners will gather at the @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social, where we'll exchange big ideas for the future of the project. Follow along to hear how each partner will help make taxonomy more visible and accurate 🌿
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BopCo.be @bopco-be.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
A great day at the AfricaMuseum in Tervuren! We were delighted to welcome a delegation from DG Environment Directorate F (Green Diplomacy & Multilateralism) of the @ec.europa.eu to showcase the work of speciesID.be, Belgium's centre of excellence for species identification.
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ERGA - European Reference Genome Atlas @ergabiodiv.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
European museums, herbaria, biobanks and biological collections: please complete our 5-min survey on access to biological material for genomics research. Responses will support community guidelines. Please share widely: www.cognitoforms.com/ERGAEuropean...
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Biodiversity Genomics - Material Access and Processing Practices in European Collections
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iBOL Europe @iboleurope.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
A recent paper by Huang Wu et al. describes results from a large-scale analysis that addressed this challenge, uncovering new insights into genomic differences among plant species that can be used to improve current DNA-based methods for plant species identification: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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DNA-based identification of plants and the genomic nature of plant species differences - Communications Biology
A meta-analysis of plant nuclear genomic data provides fundamental insights into the genomic nature of differences between plant species and informs future strategies for DNA-based identification of p...
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Samuel Vanden Abeele @samuelvdabeele.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Very proud and excited about this! speciesID.be recognized as a ‘Centre of Excellence’.
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speciesID.be is a consortium of research centers specialized in the identification of biological samples through advanced morphological and molecular methods
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BopCo.be @bopco-be.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
🐦‍🔥 Meet the Tragopan: one of the Himalayas’ most spectacular birds Often called “horned pheasants”, these stunning birds display inflatable orange or blue horns during their elaborate courtship displays. Sadly, several Tragopan species are under growing pressure from habitat loss and hunting. 🧵👇
Cabot's tragopan (Tragopan caboti), photographed in Mount Sanqing, Shangrao, Jiangxi Province, China, by Sun Jiao [CC-BY-SA-4.0]Satyr tragopan (Tragopan satyra) at Praha ZOO by Matěj Baťha [CC-BY-SA 3.0]Temminck's tragopan (Tragopan temminckii) at Washington D.C. Zoo by Jarek Tuszyński [CC-BY-SA-3.0]
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BopCo.be @bopco-be.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
BopCo and JEMU are using genetic tools, COI barcodes and SNP data, to trace the flies’ origins and deliver fast insights to authorities. 🌱 Want to help? Applications open this spring to host a fly trap at home for summer 2026! More info on how to participate: www.africamuseum.be/en/get_invol...
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Pestfly Patrol
Project titlePestfly PatrolMonitoring action of the Oriental fruit fly (Bactrocera dorsalis) by citizens in Belgium LocationBelgiumDurationJune 2026 – August 2026
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GuardIAS @guardias.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Registration is open for GuardIAS Summer School 2026, with a focus on e-DNA and Invasive Species! 🌊 Explore the program and meet the trainers: guardias.eu/welcome-to-t... Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #GuardIAS #InvasiveAlienSpecies #IAS #InvasiveSpecies #BioInvasions
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Samuel Vanden Abeele @samuelvdabeele.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Looking forward to presenting @bopco-be.bsky.social to the iBOL Europe community! More info 👇
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iBOL Europe @iboleurope.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The first community meeting of the year will happen on 26 January! We'll be joined by Amber Hartman Scholz (Leibniz-Institut DSMZ), who will discuss the BBNJ Treaty, including Marine Genetic Resources & the requirements for fair & equitable sharing of benefits. iboleurope.org/community-me...
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Community Meeting January 2026
The first community meeting of the year is coming soon, on 26 January, from 15:30 to 17:00 CET! We will start the meeting with Amber Hartman Scholz (Leibniz-Institut DSMZ). With her, we will discuss ...
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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
PhD opportunity at the University of Freiburg in plant-insect-microbe interactions. Focus on drought and herbivory effects on Quercus petrea. Details: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004720 #phd
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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Postdoc position in population genomics available in Montpellier, France, focusing on the evolutionary history of food plants in the Congo Basin. Salary ~€2,200/month. Apply by 15/01/2026. More info: anr.fr/Project-ANR-23-CE27-0023. #postdoc
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Emergence and diffusion of agriculture in the Congo Basin rainforests
Emergence and diffusion of agriculture in the Congo Basin rainforests
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BopCo.be @bopco-be.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
🎉 Happy 10th Birthday to BopCo! 🎉 November 2025 marks 10 years of BopCo, the Belspo funded DNA Identification Service at RBINS & RMCA — and what a journey it’s been!
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BopCo.be @bopco-be.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
🐟 Fast DNA testing to protect the future of European eels The lucrative trade of glass eels continues to raise serious concerns across Europe. While the European eel is critically endangered and protected under CITES regulations, illegal trafficking persists due to high demand, especially in Asia.
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NeoBiota @neobiota.pensoft.net · 10/10/2025
We have published a new special issue on invasions in aquatic systems, which stemmed from @neobiota.bsky.social's 2024 conference in Lisbon. 🌊🇵🇹 🔗 Read all about it on the @pensoft.net blog: blog.pensoft.net/2025/10/10/n...
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New NeoBiota special issue explores invasions in aquatic systems
Following the 2024 NEOBIOTA conference on biological invasions, a new special issue of NeoBiota has been released, exploring invasions in aquatic systems.
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Ana Bedoya @botana-bedoya.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
One week to apply before reviews start for the postdoc I am offering investigating the tempo and pattern of river connections with the closure of the isthmus of Panama and its impact on river plant (Podostemaceae) migration. Genomic+fossil+geological data + fieldwork 👇
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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Natural History Museum, London, seeks a Bioinformatician for its Insect Pollinator Genomics Project. Position details: jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=…. Required skills include bioinformatics and genomics. #postdoc
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Bioinformatician, NERC Museum Pollinator Genomics:South Kensington
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Biodiversity Genomics Europe plus (BGE+) @biogeneurope.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
🧬Join the Genomics for Biodiversity Conference! 🗓️ 29–31 October 2025 #savethedate 💻 Fully online & free of charge! More info - including the #opencall for abstracts: ➡️ biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/08/07/g... #GenomicsforBiodiversity #conference #BGE @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @ebpgenome.bsky.social
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BopCo.be @bopco-be.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Belgium is home to several breeders of CITES-listed birds such as parrots and birds of prey. Some of these species are notoriously difficult to breed in captivity, which has led to illegal practices in the past, such as the collection and raising of eggs or chicks taken from the wild. 🧵👇
Snowy Owl_by Patrick Danforth Photography [CC BY 4.0]Barn Owl_by Karen Arnold [Public Domain] Falco peregrinus - by Avia Venefica_Flickr [CC BY 2.0]
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Samuel Vanden Abeele @samuelvdabeele.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Congrats Jesús! Enjoy the new position
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BopCo.be @bopco-be.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
🌞 Feeling the summer heat? Step into the frozen world of science with us, at -80°C! ❄️ Did you know that both the AfricaMuseum and @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social house massive tissue collections stored at -80°C for molecular research?
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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
The Delmore lab at Columbia University is offering a fully funded postdoctoral position in Ecology and Environmental Biology, focusing on behavioral and speciation genomics. Apply by emailing a cover letter and CV to ked2195@columbia.edu. More info at: delmorelab.com #postdoc
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Di Jiang @dijiang319.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
🔬🧬🍄 @science.org Distribution of haploid chromosomes into separate nuclei in two pathogenic fungi | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @ubcbotany.bsky.social #fungi #fungisky #mycology #genetics #chromosome #nucleus #DNA #evolution #genome #biodiversity
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BopCo.be @bopco-be.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
🚢 In January 2024, BopCo received damaged wood from the “Berendrechtsluis” in the port of Antwerp. The wood was riddled with tiny holes and tubes — a telltale sign of possible shipworm activity.
Piece of wood from port of Antwerp (c) RBINSClose up wood from port of Antwerp (c) RBINS
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Rowan J. Schley @rschley.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Check out our new paper led by the amazing @benkuhnhaeuser.bsky.social in @science.org, exploring how the extraordinary diversity of Asian rattan palms was assembled 🌴
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CETAF - Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities @eurotaxonomy.cetaf.org · 28/03/2025
Last 3 days to apply for the #CETAF E-SCoRe Award! 🏃🏃‍♂️ HURRY UP! 🌿 for #natural collections based #researches 👩‍🔬 for PhD #students 💶 prize of 1.000 € + 1.500 € for research trip Check this page out 👇 cetaf.org/template-act... #taxonomy #biodiversity #phd #opportunity
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Cambridge Collections Connections Communities @camglamresearch.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
🚨2025 AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership First up: The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage @universityofleeds.bsky.social and @theul.bsky.social 📅: 30 April 2025 🪶: cc-ee@fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk Apply here👇 www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/... #GLAM
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Cambridge University Library and University of Leeds - Collections Connections Communities
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Mark Nesbitt @marknesbitt.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
PhD on offer at Kew: Plants and their Products: Biocultural collections at Kew Gardens & the South Kensington Museum during the long nineteenth century If only I could apply! Fascinating mutual interests of Kew and the V&A in plants. Closes 16 May www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...
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Katerina Guschanski @kguschan.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
3-y postdoc position in (meta)Genomics of Population Declines elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid.... If you have experience with low-coverage genomic data, care about biodiversity loss, want to understand host-microbiomes interactions, this post is for you! #museomics #ancientDNA #mammals
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Ana Bedoya @botana-bedoya.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Come work with us! The New York Botanical Garden is hiring a Curator at the Assist. or Associate level. Profile: a productive and FUN Mycologist or Cryptogamic Botanist. Happy to talk to candidates about how wonderful one of the best botanical research centers is, easy. www.nybg.org/about/work-w...
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Employment | New York Botanical Garden
Find out what employment opportunities are available at The New York Botanical Garden.
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LIB @leibnizlib.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
#LIBresearch Museum collections are gems for genomic research! We refined amplification-free long-read DNA sequencing, which led to the assembly of new genomes and moved us closer to reference genomes for all eukaryotes! #Genomics #Biodiversity Read more: doi.org/10.1186/s130...
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Long-read sequencing and genome assembly of natural history collection samples and challenging specimens - Genome Biology
Museum collections harbor millions of samples, largely unutilized for long-read sequencing. Here, we use ethanol-preserved samples containing kilobase-sized DNA to show that amplification-free protoco...
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Norm Wickett @reactionnorm.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Just extended the deadline to March 21 for this position in the Plant Phylogenomics group at the University of Vienna. It is sort of a "post doc plus" position funded for up to six years. Please reach out if you want to chat - I'd love to talk to you about it! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
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University Assistant postdoctoral
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Hugo Darras @hugodarras.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
3-Year PhD position @Uni Mainz (Germany) with @crltt.bsky.social, S. Foitzik, and me #Neurobiology #genomics #transcriptomics to investigate the olfactory system of ants from genes to neurons Information: seafile.rlp.net/f/5df9298781... We still have a postdoc position available for this project.
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Simon J. Brandl @gobyone.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
🦑🧪 Three days left to apply for the postdoctoral position in my lab. We're looking for a population geneticist/ecologist/evolutionary biologist who is interested in studying tiny fishes in the Indo-Pacific! Come join us! 🤗 fishandfunctions.com/s/Postdoc_Ad...
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Samuel Brockington @docbroc.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Great to see our paper on the front cover @natureecoevo.bsky.social, with the tropical displays in our glasshouse range! With thanks to all 50+ co-authors. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Nice editorial on the issues facing a variety of ex situ plant collection. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This month’s cover image is of a diverse display of tropical plant species under ex situ cultivation in the glasshouses at Cambridge University Botanic Garden, Cambridge, UK.
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Cambridge Collections Connections Communities @camglamresearch.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Applications open for the new round of Participatory Research fund! NEW & IMPROVED! Check the Further Particulars and Apply via our website. Email us for any questions, and spread the word! www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/opportunities/ @jillwhitelock.bsky.social @docbroc.bsky.social @nealspencer.bsky.social
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Opportunities - Collections Connections Communities
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mara lawniczak @marakat.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
looking to find folks who have current access to identified specimens (can be live or dead and well preserved) of many mosquito species. there are 3500ish described Culidae out there - anyone know anyone who might have specimens from 50+ species? please get in touch if so!
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BopCo.be @bopco-be.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
🚇 New Research Uncovers the Ancient Origins of the "London Underground Mosquito" 🦟 Culex pipiens - a.k.a. the common house mosquito or northern house mosquito - is one of the most common mosquitoes found in human habitats across the temperate regions of Europe, Africa, and Asia. 🧵👇
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BopCo.be @bopco-be.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
📣 What is the importance of wildlife surveillance? What is the role of AI in advancing One Health? How should biological invasions be managed within the One Health concept? These and other related topics were discussed at the Belgian One Health event in Brussels last week. 🧵👇
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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/01/2025
Biologists Unveil New Taxonomic System Classifying Species By Hotness theonion.com/biologi...
Biologists Unveil New Taxonomic System Classifying Species By Hotness
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Rob Waterhouse @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
#Mosquito #genome chromatin architecture #evolution - extremely long-ranged looping interactions, conserved for ~100 million years www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Anopheles mosquitoes reveal new principles of 3D genome organization in insects - Nature Communications
Anopheles mosquitoes are vectors of human malaria, and better understanding of them has implications for public health. Here, the authors apply Hi-C, FISH, RNA-seq, and ChIP-seq techniques to comprehe...
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OneSTOP @onestop-project.eu · 16/01/2025
🌿 Introducing #OneSTOP 🎉 A new EU-funded project to strengthen European #biosecurity by addressing terrestrial invasive alien species. We're breaking silos, fostering collaboration, and engaging communities to protect biodiversity. Stay tuned for updates on our mission! 📸 Mario Shimbov
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Toward a phylogenomic classification of #magnoliids New #AJB research by Andrew Helmstetter, Zacky Ezedin, Elton John de Lírio, Sylvia de Oliveira, Lars Chatrou, Roy Erkens, Isabel Larridon, @hsauquet.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantsciences #Angiosperms353 #phylogenomics
Phylogenomic tree and classification of magnoliids, with photographs of representative species.
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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
A reference-quality NLRome for the hexaploid sweetpotato and diploid wild relatives www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Phylogenetic biome niche conservatism underlies the evolution of forest paleoendemic legume trees in tropical Africa www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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BopCo.be @bopco-be.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
🧑‍🏫 Last week, BopCo hosted a workshop on DNA-based species identification for students from HOWEST Hogeschool and @universitedeliege.bsky.social. Our ENFORCE collaborators also shared their expertise in wood identification methods, and we went on a tour through their lab and wood collections. 🧵👇
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GBIF @gbif.org · 13/01/2025
📣Call for session proposals - #LivingData2025 🐦 Living Data 2025 is a joint conference jointly hosted by GBIF, TDWG, OBIS and GEO BON from 21 -24 October in #Colombia. Learn more: 🔗www.livingdata2025.c... #Biodiversity #DatosVivos2025
Graphic with a picture of a red parrot and text that reads call for organized sessions
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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
The Van de Peer lab at Ghent University seeks two postdocs focused on gene loss in plant evolution. Funded by FWO, roles include computational genomics and evolutionary analysis. Apply at: jobso.id/ko16 #postdoc
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FWO-UGent funded bioinformatics postdocs: Unveiling the significance of gene loss in plant evolution - VIB
Job description We are seeking two highly motivated postdoctoral researchers to join our research team based in the Van de Peer lab, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Zhen Li, Assistant Professor at Ghent University/VIB Staff Scien
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BopCo.be @bopco-be.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
👑 Did you know that the Swiss National Museum owns around 90 bridal crowns from around 1550 to the early 20th century, some decorated with delicate red and white flowers? These bridal crowns are found in Switzerland, but also in Germany, Austria, and Liechtenstein. But here's the mystery: 🧵👇
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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Congrats to @jeffgroh.bsky.social et al on publication of "Ancient structural variants control sex-specific flowering time morphs in walnuts and hickories" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Science magazine front cover. Picture of a walnut in its opened shell. The text reads "All about timing. Mating type evolution in walnuts and pecans" graphical abstract:
"In Juglans (top left) and Carya, two morphs show complementary temporal separation between male and female flowering (heterodichogamy). Mating types are controlled by two nonhomologous single-locus mechanisms that arose in the common ancestor of each genus, respectively. (Bottom left) Simplified schematic of a putative functional regulatory element at the Juglans locus. (Bottom right) Strong genotypic correlations across the Carya locus indicate a lack of recombination between two colinear haplotypes with similar gene content."
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