Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos
@dortizba
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Professor. Adaptation and Speciation. Population genetics. Senecio. Music, philosophy, and chess. Dad of three. Enamoured husband.
Brisbane, Australia
Joined April 2009
Excited to share our newly submitted preprint on Senecio speciation led by @maddie_e_james, and Maria C. Melo.
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RT @biorxiv_evobio: The distribution of the time to the most recent pairwise genetic common ancestor of a set of sampled genomes https://t.….
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In a sample of chromosomes from a recombining population, each pair of individuals will have different most recent common genetic ancestors at different loci. We consider the distribution of the time...
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RT @epigenci: New preprint!. We unveil the profound connection between the Ancestral Recombination Graph and Linear Mixed Models. Guess wh….
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The ancestral recombination graph (ARG) is a powerful tool for storing and analyzing large genomic datasets, as demonstrated by the ecosystem of software tools taking advantage of the succinct tree...
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RT @Luke0connor: New preprint with Guy Sella on the question: what is polygenicity?.
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The 'polygenicity' of traits is often invoked and sometimes quantified in quantitative, statistical, and human genetics. What do we mean by the polygenicity of a trait? We propose a principled...
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RT @Steve__Kelly: It has been a while… but an updated, faster & more accurate version of OrthoFinder is now out! . Scales to thousands of….
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Here, we present a major advance of the OrthoFinder method. This extends OrthoFinder's high accuracy comparative genomic framework to provide substantially enhanced scalability and accuracy. Specif...
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RT @Jente_O: Genome Architecture and Speciation in Plants and Animals | Molecular Ecology.
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There have been numerous treatments of specific topics in speciation, but surprisingly few papers have compared patterns and processes of speciation across different organismal groups. In this...
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RT @vsbuffalo: I was at first very interested in this paper. But EEGs on n=54 people, weird flowcharts of psychological ontologies, etc? Mo….
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RT @MariosGeorgakis: Perturb-seq enables analyses of the single-cell transcriptomic underpinnings of gene knockouts❗️. X-Atlas/Orion is a p….
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RT @svalver: A new paper in Nature Ecol & Evol by @Rosamygale et al. shows a #punctuated burst of genome evolution in #annelids as they tra….
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RT @ryankatzrosene: Woah! Such an important study published in Nature today! Quick thread with some of their key figures! .🧵 .
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RT @Rosamygale: Glad to see this paper finally out! An episodic burst of massive genomic rearrangements and the origin of non-marine anneli….
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Nature Ecology & Evolution - An analysis of annelid genomes reveals massive reshuffling of chromosomes in the ancestral lineage leading to clitellates, a clade composed of non-marine annelids,...
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RT @Nature: From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses — to….
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Nature - From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses — to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science.
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RT @ScienceMagazine: As the world warms, plants in natural ecosystems and agricultural settings find ways to respond to the heat. In a ne….
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RT @Monash_Science: Plants don’t use a single “thermometer” to sense heat – they decode it through a molecular network! A new review led by….
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RT @SKBLab: Check out our (@Morpholosophist, @GATCLab and Alok Sinha ) thoughts on temperature sensing and response in plants out now ….
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Plants are highly sensitive to temperature, and climate change is predicted to have negative impacts on agricultural productivity. Warming temperatures, coupled with a growing population, present a...
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RT @3rdreviewer: Here is the published version of our paper (w/@smishra677) in Genetics:.
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Abstract. Standard methods for estimating the population recombination parameter, ρ, are dependent on sampling individual genotypes and calculating various
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RT @rlmcelreath: For the new kids in back: If you hate statistics, you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, from ba….
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RT @GeneticsGSA: Existing methods for parameter estimation are computationally unfeasible with large genomic data. In #GENETICS, Misztal an….
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RT @kjaganatha: We're thrilled to introduce PromoterAI — a tool for accurately identifying promoter variants that impact gene expression. 🧵….
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RT @MExpositoAlonso: Excited to release a huge evolution project on the works for many years:. An experimental evolution project across cli….
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Wow!.
Today in @ScienceMagazine we report the development of a laboratory-evolved CRISPR-associated transposase (evoCAST) that supports therapeutically relevant levels of RNA-programmable gene insertion in human cells, a collaboration with @SternbergLab. 1/13.
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