#prelights — Public Fediverse posts

My newest #Prelights article highlights a #preprint by B. R. Baisla et al. (2025) and their search for morphological #prezygotic #barriers to reduce #hybridization among the species complex of #Nasonia, #parasitoid wasps. Male genital morphology apparently does not prevent hybridization, pre-mating #barriers are still unknown.
©#StefanFWirth 2026

Reference

Prelights article by Stefan F. Wirth:
https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/morphological-variations-in-external-genitalia-do-not-explain-the-interspecific-reproductive-isolation-in-nasonia-species-complex-hymenoptera-pteromalidae/

Pics
1) public domain, M.E.Clark, 2006,
2) ©S.F.Wirth, AI illustration

My #Prelights #article about the #coldtolerant and #freezeavoiding #stonefly #Allocapnia #pygmaea living as adult during Nova Scotian (#Canada) #winters and being protected biochemical by #cryoprotectants.
#Evolution #adaptations #biodiversity #ecology
© #StefanFWirth Berlin 2025

Prelights
S.F. Wirth (2025)
https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/the-cold-tolerance-of-an-adult-winter-active-stonefly-how-allocapnia-pygmaea-plecoptera-capniidae-avoids-freezing-in-nova-scotian-winters/

#Preprint
Jona Lopez Pedersen et al. (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.05.668668

#Photo
Bob Henricks, 2013, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en

My #preLights #article about a preprint dealing with the role of color #polymorphisms in woodland #salamanders to trigger faster #speciation and phenotypic #evolution rates. See also my former post. Photo creative Commons see linked article.
#StefanFWirth Berlin

https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/loss-of-a-morph-is-associated-with-asymmetric-character-release-in-a-radiation-of-woodland-salamanders/?share=mastodon