S. Lorena Ament
@LoreAment
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Evolutionary biologist interested in genomics, speciation, reproductive strategies, fungi, and biodiversity. Find me on the Butterfly: loreament
Sweden
Joined September 2015
We often talk about the role of positive selection in #speciation. But what about balancing selection? I'm SO proud to share our new paper "Allorecognition genes drive reproductive isolation in #Podospora anserina" now in @NatureEcoEvo! 1/n.
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Nature Ecology & Evolution - Genetic, ecological and simulation data demonstrate that the origin and coexistence of reproductively isolated sympatric groups in a fungus is driven by pleiotropic...
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RT @strnr: DgeaHeatmap: An R Package for Transcriptomic Analysis and Heatmap Generation 🧬🖥️🧪 .
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RT @Rosamygale: FANTASIA's paper is finally out! Check it out if you're interested in alternative methods to homology for functional annota….
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RT @lh3lh3: Longdust, a new tool to identify highly repetitive STRs, VNTRs, satellite DNA and other low-complexity regions (LCRs). Similar….
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Identify long STRs, VNTRs, satellite DNA and other low-complexity regions in a genome - lh3/longdust
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RT @lh3lh3: Preprint on "Finding easy regions for short-read variant calling from pangenome data": .
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RT @AllThingsApx: Nice reference sheet to AI models for proteins: .
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Thoughts from the Tamarind team on protein therapeutics, computational biology and state of AI in life sciences
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RT @lh3lh3: Preprint on "Improving spliced alignment by modeling splice sites with deep learning". It describes minisplice for modeling spl….
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RT @jim_elevator: Announcing myloasm, a new long-read (ONT R10/PacBio) metagenome assembler. With @lh3lh3.
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Wooo felicidades @JenniferMolinet !!.
Just out in PNAS! "The evolution of thermal performance curves in response to rising temperatures across the model genus yeast". Beautiful work using experimental evolution to forecast climate impacts on biodiversity by Jennifer Molinet @JenniferMolinet
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RT @cblatts: @ariel_kalil I had to tune a little but here is what I got: .
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Title: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Strong, Rigorous Social Science Proposal with Minimal Risk of AI Hallucination Chris Blattman and ChatBlatt (or ChrisGPT?) This guide is designed for social...
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RT @TrevorCampbell_: There are so many weird Biology quirks that I somehow missed before and am only just finding now. Apparently transl….
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RT @lh3lh3: longcallD is a new variant caller for genomic long reads. It jointly calls phased small and structural variants. Single binary,….
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A local-haplotagging-based small and structural variant caller - yangao07/longcallD
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RT @StelkensLab: And now, we also have a 2-year postdoc position in the Stelkens Lab! 🧪 If you are interested in parallel evolution, genom….
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RT @strnr: Comparative population pangenomes reveal unexpected complexity and fitness effects of structural variants .
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RT @ramencult: New preprint! We find a novel signal of positive selection in georeferenced genotype data, then use this signal to identify….
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As organisms adapt to environmental changes, natural selection modifies the frequency of non-neutral alleles. For beneficial mutations, the outcome of this process may be a selective sweep, in which...
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RT @biorxiv_plants: CRISPR targeting of H3K4me3 activates gene expression and unlocks centromeric crossover recombination in Arabidopsis ht….
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H3K4me3 is a fundamental and highly conserved chromatin mark across eukaryotes, playing a central role in many genome-related processes, including transcription, maintenance of cell identity, DNA...
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RT @3rdreviewer: New paper with @smishra677 ! Maybe it will bring you some joy given all this (waves arms around). "Estimating recombina….
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Standard methods for estimating the population recombination parameter, ρ , are dependent on sampling individual genotypes and calculating various types of disequilibria. However, recent machine...
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RT @metalichen: Our study on #lichen #symbiosis is out in @CurrentBiology! How can multiple microbes create a large, 3D, and structurally c….
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RT @lpachter: If you need to sample reads (with or without replacement) from FASTQ files you may find the fastQpick utility by @Josephmrich….
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Contribute to pachterlab/fastQpick development by creating an account on GitHub.
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