Out today in PNAS: "The paradox of adaptive trait clines with nonclinal patterns in the underlying genes" https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2220313120 This study shows that under complex multivariate adaptation, trait clines can evolve despite nonmonotonic allele frequency patterns across environmental gradients. These patterns are not discovered by genotype–environment association methods, which are widely used to discover adaptation. #EvolutionPaper #EcoEvo #SLiM #Genetics #Genomics #EvolgenPaper #PopGen

New #preprint with Marco Smolla (now at MPI Leipzig) now up at @biorxivpreprint: "Pathways to cultural adaptation: the coevolution of cumulative culture and social networks" https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.21.529416

We look at how cumulative culture coevolves with social network structure and discover that there are two distinct pathways this coevolution takes AND that there is a conflict between individual selection and group-level interests!

#CulturalEvolution #SocialNetworks #EvolutionPaper

Maybe you have heard of genotype (G) x environment (E) interactions on species traits? Did you know that this is not the only way that non-random associations between G and E can evolve? Spatial covariance can also evolve between G and E, which has been known as cogradient and countergradient evolution. In this paper we provide a way to measure it. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ele.14020 #Ecology #Evolution #EvolutionPaper

Recently we also evaluated how well a widely-used method called "gradient forests" performs for the estimation of "genomic vulnerability". In this paper we highlight some strengths and weaknesses of the approach. Notably, genetic drift can cause small populations to have large "offset" values, highlighting issues with current interpretations and estimations. #EvolutionPaper #Evolution #EvolGenPaper https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eva.13354

Recently we also reviewed how simulations can be used to test statistical methods in ecology, evolution and systematics. These fields lack standardized principles for evaluating methods, which has led to high variability in the rigor with which methods are tested. In this review, we illustrate the common pitfalls and best practices for method evaluations. #EvolutionPaper #Ecology #EcoEvo #PopulationGenetics https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-102320-093722

In our recent "Inversion Invasions" paper we studied the conditions under which inversions invade genomes and become involved in adaptation. We found that inversions were more likely to be involved in adaptation when the genetic basis of the adaptive trait was highly polygenic. #EvolgenPaper #EvolutionPaper #PopulationGenetics @royalsociety https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2021.0200 We developed this plot to visualize how inversions capture and gain genetic variation through time.

Big congrats to Maya Wilson Brown for her first first-authored publication investigating how ecological niches differ across the native and invasive range of Capsella bursa-pastoris 🎉🎉🎉 #EvolutionPaper https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajb2.16140

Congrats to moria robinson et al
Macroevolution of protective coloration across caterpillars reflects relationships with host plants #EvolutionPaper
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.2293

Now live: my #EvolutionPaper preprint assembling and analysing the genome of a non-model apicomplexan parasite. Ophryocystis elektroscirrha (you can just call it OE) infects the charismatic monarch butterfly. So check out the paper to see new insights into cryptic parasite diversity, ATPase evolution, or just marvel at how tiny it is: fewer than 3,000 coding genes in <9Mb!

https://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.02.01.526615v1

These were later updated to be #EvolgenPaper #EvolutionPaper [and remember the internal caps] to avoid the underscores.

Looks like a useful paper for teaching sexual selection in undergrad evolutionary biology
#EvolutionPaper
I definitely appreciate meta-analyses for making broad quantitative points in class

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001916

@rspfau @jrossibarra @kevinrthornton @alxsim #EvolgenPaper #EvolutionPaper

Updated perspective piece on why human genetics should move away from using "genetic ancestry" groups as a sample description.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.11595

#EvolgenPaper #EvolutionPaper

recirculating to start using hashtags

OK sounds like #EvolgenPaper is good hashtag for adding to toots and threads on Evolutionary and Population Genetics papers

We could use #EvolutionPaper for papers more generally associated with Evolutionary Biology.

Please RT this and consider using these for tooting about papers, your own of those of others. That way we'll be able to keep track of them all more.

We could also use #evolution_paper for the broader field. Open to other suggestions, eg if #EvolgenPaper #EvolutionPaper is easier (though if folks forget the caps they are less accessible).