Using high-density SNP genotyping to determine the origin of wild boar dispersers outside the geographic range margins in Norway

📊DATA on Dryad: bit.ly/4dVe6Px

📑ARTICLE in "Wildlife Biology": bit.ly/43i2Zdk

#morphology #wildlifebiology #opendata #openscience #openresearch #wildlife
#evolution #genotype
#dispersal

How accurate is genomic prediction across wild populations?

📊DATA: bit.ly/4epZO9F

📑ARTICLE in
@journal-evo.bsky.social
: bit.ly/4xgsWb2

#morphology #evolution #opendata #openresearch #openscience #genotype #sparrow #biology #biodiversity

The video 🎥 of the #BeilsteinTalk “Micro- and nanoscale adaptations in insect-attachment pads: Evolutionary insights from stick and leaf insects” with Thies H. Büscher from Kiel University is NOW available 🔓 in the video portal @TIB_AVPortal of the @tibhannover.

🔗 https://av.tib.eu/media/73023

#BioEngineering #insects #adhesion #entomology #morphology #biomimetics #biomechanics #BeilsteinTalks

Spotted in #FantasticFour c1967: "a-borning". A-prefixing with this #verb seemed odd to me, but there was quite a spike in "a-borning" just before the 1960s relative to some other common verbs that saw a-prefixing constructions declining.

#linguistics #syntax #morphology #aspect #languagechange #English #Marvel #comics #FF #Fantastic4

Please give a "Like" to my #YouTube post regarding new findings on #extinct #sabertoothed #cats in #Europe:
http://youtube.com/post/UgkxWq5kVVlAtyFiuwhqZ0tI3nxU2BwELRIZ?si=Gnxr_XXiDSD6VFgx

According to new #researchresults—based on the reconstruction of the #brain #morphology of fossils—#Megatereon #cultridens was a skilled #climber, possessed #poorhearing, and had #keeneyesight.
© #StefanFWirth, May 2025

Reference

I. Meli et al. (2026) https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70213

Illustrations
© S.F. Wirth, AI-assisted

Do chameleons evolve to match their habitats? Petford et al. reveal morphological convergence in Bradypodion lineages, suggesting habitat, not ancestry, drives morphology.

Read now ahead of print!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/739749

#Morphology #Ecomorphs #EEB

5yo: I ever let you sing!
Us: why won’t you let us sing?
5yo: no, I’ll *ever* let you sing!

#parenting #English #overgeneration #morphology #backDerivation #linguistics

RE: https://mastodon.green/@plazi_species/116260383338896477

#Endemic #species are always interesting from different perspectives, e.g. from an #evolutionary and #ecological point of view. This also applies to #skinks of the genus
#Madascincus, being with several known species endemic to #Madagascar.
A. Miralles et al. (2026) described based on #multilocus #phylogenetics and #morphology two #newspecies:
M. #irery and M.
#minotaurus, with restricted distributions to limited areas of Madagascar only.
© this text #StefanFWirth