Catherine SheardNew paper out, led by Megan Jones!
Want to read about sexual size dimorphism across 5949 species of mammals? Now you can! 🦧 🐺 🦝 🦁 🦓 🐑 🦛 🦇 🦥 🦘 🦡 🦦 🐿️ 🐫 🐀 🐻
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.1211
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Alex Skeels
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Dr. Skulls 💀🧞♂️💀 Researching the evolution of biodiversity 🌸🌏🏵️ he/him
Annals of Botany🌳🌧️The paper ‘Sequential diversification with Miocene extinction and Pliocene speciation linked to mountain uplift explains the diversity of the African rain forest clade Monodoreae (Annonaceae)’ in @AnnBot by @LPDagallier et al. is now #free for a limited time. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcad130 (1/10)
Sequential diversification with Miocene extinction and Pliocene speciation linked to mountain uplift explains the diversity of the African rain forest clade Monodoreae (Annonaceae)
AbstractBackground and Aims. Throughout the Cenozoic, Africa underwent several climatic and geological changes impacting the evolution of tropical rain forests
Evolution LettersCommonly used Bayesian diversification methods lead to biologically meaningful differences in branch-specific rates on empirical phylogenies:
https://doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qrad044
Now in @EvolLetters by Jesús Martínez-Gómez et al.
Commonly used Bayesian diversification methods lead to biologically meaningful differences in branch-specific rates on empirical phylogenies
Abstract. Identifying along which lineages shifts in diversification rates occur is a central goal of comparative phylogenetics; these shifts may coincide with
Damien de ViennePhylteR, our new tool for filtering phylogenomics datasets, is now out!
https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msad234
PhylteR identifies with precision, from a collection of gene trees, the "outlier" sequences responsible for a lack of concordance among gene trees.
How it works? A small thread 👇
Ted Pavlic (he/him)Those who teach Genetics to large (possibly online) classrooms - Any tips for tools to make very visual aspects of the class accessible to blind students?
For example, what alt text do you use for a pedigree? Are there existing textual serializations/encodings of these objects?
SMBESMBE2024 Puerto Vallarta has now opened the call for symposium proposals! Proposals are due Nov 10th. Results will be announced Dec 6th #SMBE24 https://smbe2024.org
@SMBEmeetings
@SMBEmeetings
New study out in #Evolution 🤠 with Damien Esquerré, Daria Lipsky, Loïc Pellissier (@ploic), and Lydian Boschman.
Here we look at the drivers of diversification of Liolaemus lizards 🦎 throughout the Andes 🏔️ using a mechanistic model ⚙️ of spatial diversification #Gen3sis
We found that paleoclimate change ☀️ ❄️ produced a 'sweet spot' at mid-elevations which maximises speciation relative to extinction to produce a hotspot of biodiversity.
📄 Check it out here:
Heres a new little OA Ecography article in which Keaghan Yaxley and I follow the great Australian tradition of developing spatial endemism metrics - this time its functional 🦩🦉🐓
Putter Tiatragul🧵Delighted to share that our study on the impact of aridification on the diversification of Australian blindsnakes is now published at @JBiogeography
w/ Scott Keogh + @AlexDSkeels
Link: https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14700
Here's a summary in multiple toots...
Oskar Hagen 
Check the cool insights @sciencemagazine on biotic exchange at the emblematic Wallace’s Line enabled by #gen3sis, my mechanistic simulation tool baby. Past environmental regimes matters!
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adf7122
So proud of you! :) Huge thanks to the lead of this story @AlexDSkeels 🙏🧞♂️ and members of the dream team
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adf7122
So proud of you! :) Huge thanks to the lead of this story @AlexDSkeels 🙏🧞♂️ and members of the dream team