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Postdoc working on population genetics | 🦋🐥🌱

Uppsala, Sweden
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RT @gmkov: Passionate about studying the genomics of local adaptation? Join us for a fully funded 4-year PhD at Uppsala University, Sweden.….
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RT @JesperBoman: European butterflies have been studied intensely by scientists and naturalists for centuries. It is therefore with some su….
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RT @biorxiv_evobio: Genomic regions of current low hybridisation mark long-term barriers to gene flow in scarce swallowtail butterflies ht….
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RT @biorxiv_evobio: Genealogical asymmetry under the IM model and a two-taxon test for gene flow #biorxiv_evobio.
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PopGenomics twitter, I am looking for examples of papers where the authors fit a demographic model to a pair of species and the maximum likelihood estimate of migration rate was 0. Anyone have any suggestions? There should be loads. (retweets appreciated).
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RT @biorxiv_evobio: Evolution of hybrid inviability associated with chromosome fusions #biorxiv_evobio.
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RT @derek_setter: There's no shame in eating a whole tub of rocky road ice cream .
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RT @RogerVila_Lab: PHD CONTRACT ON BUTTERFLY GENOMICS.The Butterfly Diversity & Evolution Lab in Barcelona offers a 4-year PhD contract. If….
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Inversions, ARGs and seahorses !.
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Divergence and gene flow history at two large chromosomal inversions involved in long-snouted seahorse ecotype formation #biorxiv_genomic.
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RT @alex_twyford: I'm advertising a @darwintreelife postdoc to work at @EdinburghUni @SBSatEd on comparative #plant genomics! 16 months to….
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RT @_introgression: Large-scale phylogenomics uncovers a complex evolutionary history and extensive ancestral gene flow in an African prima….
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RT @biorxiv_evobio: Do chromosome rearrangements fix by genetic drift or natural selection? A test in Brenthis butterflies .
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RT @CharJWright: New preprint! Using >200 chromosomal genomes, we reconstruct the chromosomes of the ancestral Lepidopteran and show that f….
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RT @biorxiv_evobio: Chromosome evolution in Lepidoptera #biorxiv_evobio.
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RT @Jente_O: Chromosome fissions and fusions act as barriers to gene flow between Brenthis fritillary butterflies | Molecular Biology and E….
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Abstract. Chromosome rearrangements are thought to promote reproductive isolation between incipient species. However, it is unclear how often, and under wh
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RT @KayLucek: A #macroevolution -ary role for chromosomal fusion and fission in #Erebia #butterflies👉@HAugustijnen 's second thesis chapter….
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RT @k_sokolovskis: Team "Willow Warbler" proudly presents:.Two loci that both follow dominant inheritance and interact via epistasis explai….
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RT @biorxiv_evobio: Recent evolution of a maternally-acting sex-determining supergene in a fly with single-sex broods .
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