At no 3: Evolutionary Biology! Captures posts with tags like #Evolution#EvoSky#EvolBio#Systematicsbsky.app/profile/did:... 4/6🧵
Great paper. This metaphor comparing how we might misdiagnose the source of broken car to how we might misunderstand the origin of a species trait is particularly good 🧪 #evosky#evolution
Phenomenally interesting paper about the perhaps unknowably complex genetic components underlying trait development. I like the discussion of development being cleaved from the modern synthesis...similar happened to paleontology and we're only recently learning how to re-integrate. 🧪 #evosky
Summary: Extreme traits in animals, from the origin of limbs to the loss of tails, capture public attention. This Review argues that scientists should not seek simple explanations for how they evolved...
"the initial immune state, which often goes unmeasured in empirical studies, is a critical determinant of infection duration (and) will be highly variable among individuals, and dependent on each individual’s infection history." #EvoSky#HostPathogen#ImmunoSky
#NewPaperAlert! Happy to share our new paper on immunological feedback loops with Clay Cressler, Dan Metz and @grahammunology.bsky.social! In this paper we use a mathematical model to connect immune dynamics and infection duration.
Infection duration affects individual host fitness and between-host transmission. Whether an infection is cleared or becomes chronic depends on the complex interaction between host immune responses an...
Next November 15th is the anniversary of the publication of the first aDNA paper, the #QuaggaPaper#QuaggaQonference#popgen#paleosky#evoskyanimal-adna.org/events/2024/...
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Some highlights from my paper with Nipam Patel, out now in Journal of Experimental Biology: doi.org/10.1242/jeb.245940 #evolution #ecoevo #evodevo #photonics #BiomechSky 1/11
Summary: A meta-analysis of 300 butterfly structural colors reviews their production mechanisms and determines the color range and phylogenetic distribution for each type of structure, uncovering evol...
