Rowan Lymbery

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Postdoc @ Centre for Evolutionary Biology, UWA | gamete evolution, sexual selection, parental effects, quantitative genetics

Hey everyone, Happy Holidays! I come bearing the gift of our last preprint of 2022.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.26.521943v1

Will probably run a legit "Toot-orial" in the New Year when people are back, but briefly: We have long been interested in how the genome is packaged in sperm, both as a cool chromatin state and also because several labs have reported that mutations that affect histone modifications in the testis have intergenerational effects. 1/n

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An excellent and timely editorial in Nature, as @[email protected] and @[email protected] evaluate the impact of NCGPs. "Science funders must remember the value of addressing the intrinsic biological questions that help to explain the natural world."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04172-8
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🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MattLinden5/status/1598475964245495809

In praise of research in fundamental biology

Science funders must remember the value of addressing the intrinsic biological questions that help to explain the natural world.

New paper alert! John Fitzpatrick, Rhonda Snook and I are at it again. This new paper out yesterday in Nat Comms shows that fertilization mode differentially shapes the evolution of vertebrate sperm morphology.

rdcu.be/cZpHa

Already shared on [email protected] but I keep it here as well.

This week in @eLife, I wrote my experience in the fight for #evolution as a Turkish researcher.

#EvolutionaryBiology
#genetics
#ecology
#academic
#sciencecomm
#anthropology
#followfriday

https://elifesciences.org/articles/84343

Science and Politics: The fight for evolution

As the Turkish government intensified its attacks on the theory of evolution, the academic community rallied to push back. A researcher recounts how she decided to join them.

eLife
In TREE, Kelly et al. suggest that in the process of plasticity-led evolution, plasticity may be a benefit of mate choice. If there are preferences for mates that produce more plastic offspring, sexual selection may facilitate adaptation in variable environments. Future studies should estimate mate preferences, offspring plasticity of preferred/non-preferred mates, links between sexual signals and offspring plasticity and links between offspring plasticity and fitness. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534721000033