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Tom Lewin

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Evolutionary genomics @ QMUL

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Amy Lawrence @amylawrence.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

THREE extremely unethical situations at the World Cup require more football stakeholders to challenge wrongs. 1. Banishment of the Somali referee 2. Balogun red card political interference 3. Treatment of Iran team Players/managers/officials/administrators. Pressure on FIFA should be unrelenting.

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WGDip @wgdip.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

📢Meet the team! Dr. Tom Lewin is a post-doc from the University of Oxford. Recently returning from his research in Taiwan on marine invertebrates, @tomlewin.bsky.social will be focusing on understudied animal phyla as part of the #WGDip project Find out more about his research 🪸: shorturl.at/A5lHn

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Tom Lewin @tomlewin.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Lophophorata is monophyletic! Super excited to see this work out in Current Biology - we sequenced a phoronid genome and used shared chromosome fusions to confirm the monophyly of Lophophorata. A big team effort from the Luo Lab @yjluo.bsky.social! More here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m3mV3QW8S...

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Peter Mulhair @petermulhair.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Delighted to see our new paper out, led by PhD student Asia Hoile. We explored new genes that emerged during the early evolution of Lepidoptera 🦋 Many cool insights which we think open up new questions to explore. Get in touch if you have thoughts/want to discuss more! 🔗: tinyurl.com/48rx72es

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Gene novelty and gene family expansion in the early evolution of Lepidoptera - BMC Genomics

Background Almost 10% of all known animal species belong to Lepidoptera: moths and butterflies. To understand how this incredible diversity evolved we assess the role of gene gain in driving early lep...

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