#transposableelements — Public Fediverse posts

New publication out 🆕 📤

"No evidence of transposable element bursts in the Galápagos Scalesia adaptive radiation despite hybridization, diversification and ecological niche shifts"

https://mobilednajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13100-025-00362-z

🔍 Despite rapid speciation, niche shifts, & hybridization, we found no significant TE accumulation differences across species or hybrids.
🌵 Even in arid-adapted lineages—where genome downsizing may be expected—TEs didn’t decline.
#TransposableElements #Speciation #AdaptiveRadiation #Genomics

Where do new genes come from? @HassanZaman91 @barricklab &co show that within the timescale of the #LTEE experiment, the co-option of #promoters, mainly from #TransposableElements, serves as the major source of raw material for #DeNovoGenes #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/4a8p6DT

My paper just got accepted just before the end-of-the-year celebrations 🥳 Although modest, the story remains cool and promising for future investigations in the coming years!
I focused on how transposable elements behave while mouse fetal gonads differentiate as testes or ovaries.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2023.1327410
#TEs #TransposableElements #developmental_biology #SexDet #biology #bioinformatics #RStats

I can finally communicate about it! Here is my last preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.23.563600v1
It is part of a collaborative project between my official lab from Tel-Aviv and my host lab in Montpellier. #SexDet #TransposableElements #stem #bioinformatics

The #Fediscience #mastodon instance kindly asks for an #introduction. Here it is:

I am an evolutionary biologist at #IDEEV (#CNRS #UniversiteParisSaclay, France). Wide interests in #Evolution, including #PopGen, #QuantitativeGenetics, #SystemsBiology, and #Genome evolution (in particular, #TransposableElements). Mostly #Theory and #DataAnalysis.

I am part of the recent #twitterMigration of #Academia, and very happy to find so many people #ESEBFolks here!