The more you know… #Bugstodon #ConvergentEvolution

E Lau shows very nicely how bioluminescence in ostracods, fireflies and sea pansies can use very different structures yet convergently recruited homologous enzymes. The number of functional genes varies according to lineage-specific duplications. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.12.536614v1.abstract #SMBE2023 #ConvergentEvolution #paralog #bioluminescence

Very happy to be giving a talk at the University of Cambridge cross-departmental evolution and development seminar series next week! I will talk about the evolution and loss of distyly supergenes. #Linum #supergene #ConvergentEvolution #ERC

Are Alan Chapman and MP becoming the same person? #rctid #convergentevolution

RT @protistologists
#ConvergentEvolution of spherical shells in #Miocene planktonic #foraminifera documents the parallel emergence of a complex character in response to environmental forcing https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/paleobiology/article/convergent-evolution-of-spherical-shells-in-miocene-planktonic-foraminifera-documents-the-parallel-emergence-of-a-complex-character-in-response-to-environmental-forcing/F26FEC402FD603FDA18BE70488B3A71A #protists

This big-ass succulent near 50th Street and Kansas Ave in Los Angeles looks like a cactus but it's actually some kind of Euphorbia. It's possible to see this any time because euphorbias don't have spines like cactuses, but the difference is especially clear when they're flowering, which this sweetie pie is doing and how!

Euphorbia flowers are really distinct and so are cactus flowers and they look nothing like each other. And there were so many bees!.

#StreetSucculents
#LosAngeles
#Euphorbia
#Cactus
#ConvergentEvolution
#50thStreet
#KansasAvenue
#Flowers
#FloweringPlants

@AdrianRiskin Last time I looked at #convergentEvolution, found a lot of brill articles about how DNA sequencing was dismantling so many preconceptions in traditional phylogeny.

Amazing seminar @dee_unil today by Magdalena Bohutínská (MajdaHolcova on Twitter). A researcher and a research program to follow! #ConvergentEvolution #MolecularEvolution #GenomeDuplication #PlantEvolution
https://ecoevo.social/@dee_unil/109699673384041182

Over the weekend I learned about the two species of #seriemas. I knew about the long legged African secretary #birds - birds of prey that kick and slash their prey to death - but these #raptors (yep, they're raptors!!) have evolved the same terrestrial hunting behaviour over in South America. Look at that sickle claw! #ConvergentEvolution #dinosaurs

(📸Otávio Nogueira, Matt Edmonds)

Over the weekend I learned about the two species of #seriemas. I knew about the long legged African secretary #birds - birds of prey that kick and slash their prey to death - but these #raptors (yep, they're raptors!!) have evolved the same terrestrial hunting behaviour over in South America. Look at that sickle claw! #ConvergentEvolution

(📸Otávio Nogueira, Matt Edmonds)

Very cool study in @EvolLetters on moles - showing that although fossorial #mammals show #ConvergentEvolution when it comes to increased bone fracture in the humeral head, subterranean talpids (true moles) go one step further and have bone histology in their arms that seems likely to result in incredible resilience for withstanding the insane stresses of moving through soil underground. High five, talpids! https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/evl3.303 #OpenAccess

Hello Mastodon! My #introduction: I am a #postdoctoral #researcher at #Harvard focused on #EvolutionaryGenomics of #adaptation and #ConvergentEvolution in #vertebrates, especially #SquamateReptiles. Currently, I am exploring the #evolution of convergent #LimbReduction in #skink #lizards. Due to the nature of my work, I am also passionate about #NaturalHistoryMuseums and #MuseumGenomics. I grew up in #UpstateNY and did my #PhD at #UnivTexasArlington.

Hello Mastodon! My #introduction: I am a #postdoctoral #researcher at #Harvard focused on #EvolutionaryGenomics of #adaptation and #ConvergentEvolution in #vertebrates, especially #SquamateReptiles. Currently, I am exploring the #evolution of convergent #LimbReduction in #skink #lizards. Due to the nature of my work, I am also passionate about #NaturalHistoryMuseums and #MuseumGenomics. I grew up in #UpstateNY and did my #PhD at #UnivTexasArlington.

Just randomly though of a lightbulb moment I had, realising that hoghnose snakes have hog-nose shaped noses because both those snakes and hogs dig into the ground with their noses.
#ConvergentEvolution!