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@drtristankapp Afrikaans was certainly influenced by Muslim and Khoisan culture but to claim that it is of Muslim origins ignores the fact that it is essentially a variant dialect of Dutch. Afrikaans is a Germanic language linguistically closer to Dutch and Flemish than Arabic.

Whole-Genome Data to Investigate Recent and Historical Dog Introgression Patterns in Italian Wolves onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

On the robustness of Bayesian inference of gene flow to intragenic recombination and natural selection academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-ar… @MolBioEvol

Variant Calling in the Goldilocks Zone: How Reference Genome Choice and Read Mapping Stringency Impact Heterozygosity Estimates and Phylogenetic Analyses onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…

SAI: A Python Package for Statistics for Adaptive Introgression academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-ar… @MolBioEvol

Hybridization but minimal introgression: ecologically-based divergent selection maintains a steep hybrid zone in parapatric ... biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_evobio

Convergent genome evolution shaped the emergence of terrestrial animals nature.com/articles/s4158… @Nature

Detecting Introgression in Shallow Phylogenies: How Minor Molecular Clock Deviations Lead to Major Inference Errors #535769824" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">academic.oup.com/mbe/article/42… @MolBioEvol

@Brady_H I think the reason people struggle to comprehend this is that most people don’t actually put in enough volume when training for a marathon so their 5k time is their ‘trained’ time but their marathon time is very much ‘undertrained’.

I’m not elite, but that’s the gap you’ll typically see in elite runners (25–35 seconds per mile difference between 5k and marathon pace). Connor Mantz, for example. 5k PR is 4:19 pace and marathon PR is 4:45 pace. So that’s ~26 seconds from 5k to full.

@phytools_liam See you there Liam

I'm organizing an #Evol2025 meet-up run tomorrow (Sunday) at 6:15am. All ability levels & we'll do an out-and-back -- so no chance of getting lost. Meeting outside the Classic Center. Please email me if you want more details, or just show up!

Happy 2nd annual International Chameleon Day! May 9th is International Chameleon Day, which was launched in 2024 to highlight the remarkable diversity of chameleon species and shed light on the challenges they face in the wild! #internationalchameleonday #chameleondaymay9

Parallel Selection in Domesticated Atlantic Salmon from Divergent Founders Including on Whole-Genome Duplication-derived Homeologous Regions academic.oup.com/gbe/article/17… @GenomeBiolEvol

A Phylogenetic Approach to Delimitate Species in a Probabilistic Way academic.oup.com/sysbio/advance… @systbiol

Phylogenomic and comparative genomic analyses support a single evolutionary origin of flatfish asymmetry nature.com/articles/s4158… @NatureGenet

I finally published our new paper embracing the heterogeneity of whole genomes for understanding evolutionary processes! And it's on #snakes! Always a plus! Huge thank you to my collaborators! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The first many-analysts study in ecology is finally published! 🥳🙌 300+ coauthors and 5+ years, this was a massive effort by @Elliot_Gould_ @HannahSFraser @TimParker88 and co. Open access 👉 #article-info" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Mind the gaps: The incompleteness of complete avian genome assemblies buff.ly/4haYF4X #ornithology

Parallel and convergent evolution in genes underlying seasonal migration doi.org/10.1093/evlett… Now in @EvolLetters by Luz E Zamudio-Beltrán et al. (@birdgenoscape)

@leo_speidel Twigstats looks amazing! Do you know if there’s any utility to quantifying introgression on a species-level phylogenetic scale? I understand it’s developed for population level stuff but just curious.

And very much appreciate any feedback if you’re using (or planning on using) Twigstats!

Happy New Year! Our Twigstats paper is now out! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Just in time before Christmas 🎅🏻🧬 Very happy to share this work, where we identified several horizontal gene transfers between fishes. This is a first for vertebrates (except for the anti-freeze protein example) ! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…