#speciation — Public Fediverse posts

RE: https://mastodon.green/@plazi_species/115904831661478242

How can allopatric #speciation lead to the #radiation of #newspecies, and how can #research succeed in reconstructing such mechanisms? #Cryptic #complexes such as the #Hemiphyllodactylus #harterti-complex (#Gekkonidae) can be revealing.

Z. Hong et al. (2026) #phylogenetically identified two new species by using the #mitochondrialgene #ND2. The #ancestral #population of the complex is thought to have diverged in the Middle #Oligocene and radiated from there throughout #Malaysia.

© #StefanFWirth

Madagascar, located off the African continent in the Indian Ocean, is the oldest #island of the world. It split off from the Indian subcontinent about 100 million years ago. This old age explains why it is a hotspot of biodiversity and home of exotic life-forms like small ring-tailed lemurs and giant #baobab trees. The biodiversity is a result of Madagascar's long geographic isolation.
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691222622/the-new-natural-history-of-madagascar
#Evolution #Speciation #GeographicIsolation

Madagascar, located off the African continent in the Indian Ocean, is the oldest #island of the world. It split off from the Indian subcontinent about 100 million years ago. This old age explains why it is a hotspot of biodiversity and home of exotic life-forms like small ring-tailed lemurs and giant #baobab trees. The biodiversity is a result of Madagascar's long geographic isolation.
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691222622/the-new-natural-history-of-madagascar
#Evolution #Speciation #GeographicIsolation

Out today in Gigascience: Exploring the role of polymorphic inter-species structural variants in reproductive isolation and adaptive divergence in Eucalyptus

https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/article/doi/10.1093/gigascience/giae029/7692300

#eucalyptus #genomics #speciation #structuralvariants #evolution

Some photos from the thesis defence in Tjarno. The stunning weather helped, also a highly entertaining spex afterwards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spex_(theatre) #genomics
#littorina #snails #sweden #phd #viva #Speciation #spex

great seminar by @[email protected] yesterday for our DB dept talk @[email protected], delivering the gospel of #meioticdrive with a new metaphor. you may have seen his faculty application in your pile, snap him up before someone else does! #genomeconflict #speciation #RNAi

#introduction

Hi everyone,
I'm a UK based biologist mostly working on #amphibians (#caecilians and #frogs) and #reptiles (#snakes and #lizards). Most of my research revolves around #evolution, #populationgenetics, #speciation, #phylogeny, #genomics, #ecology, #climatechange and #conservation. My research projects occur primarily in the UK, Ecuador, Seychelles and Papua New Guinea.

I hope to share results coming out of our lab and to share some cool facts about our study organisms!