Oliver Kersten

🚨🚨🚨 Publication Alert 🚨🚨🚨 New in @ScienceAdvances "Hybridization of Atlantic puffins in the Arctic coincides with 20th-century climate change" A summary thread with images & link to pub below 👇 1/7

@martykardos @NM_Reid Ind. heterozygosity in angsd is basically an individual-based SFS

@NM_Reid My impression is that it probably works well for those things, but I suspect not for estimating individual heterozygosity.

I genuinely can't believe that someone had to write this paper in 2024. Any application of SNP data that depends on accurately identifying heterozygous genotypes is going to be STRONGLY INFLUENCED by depth of coverage.

New story on the #AvianHybrids blog! The origin of a hybrid Puffin population avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2024/03/20/the… Based on the @ScienceAdvances study by @OKerstenScience et al. | #ornithology

@ylenia_chiari @Evie_Jensen Circulomics!

Puffins are adapting to rapid Arctic warming with the interbreeding of two subspecies. Experts say its the first evidence of large-scale hybridization due to climate change. But significant genetic diversity loss puts puffins at risk. #ResistanceEarth science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

A new hybrid subspecies of puffin is likely the result of climate change trib.al/pczdnRj

A Colony Of Puffin Hybrids May Have Been Created By Climate Change iflscience.com/a-colony-of-pu…

Studying puffin populations, scientists uncovered the first evidence to connect a large-scale hybridization to 20th-century warming trends. But a serious decline in the birds' genetic diversity does not bode well for their future. insideclimatenews.org/news/24102023/…

A hybrid Atlantic puffin population on the remote Norwegian island of Bjornoya seems to have emerged in a period coinciding with the onset of a faster pace of global warming, a recent report says. insideclimatenews.org/news/24102023/…

We're losing genetic diversity across the Arctic communities as a result of #ClimateChange. A new study found that #GlobalWarming has been merging sub-species of the Atlantic puffin in the 20th century by interbreeding scientists found on Bear Island 🇳🇴 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Coinciding with a century of climate change in the Arctic, a hybrid and less genetically diverse puffin colony has evolved in Norway within the last 100 years, a new @ScienceAdvances study finds. scim.ag/4qf

Hybridization of Atlantic puffins in the Arctic coincides with 20th-century climate change | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #ornithology

Coinciding with a century of #ClimateChange in the Arctic, a hybrid and less genetically diverse puffin colony has evolved in Norway within the last 100 years, a new study finds. scim.ag/4oq

"The #Arctic is experiencing the fastest rates of global warming [...]". Read about the origin of an Arctic hybrid population of Atlantic puffins in Norway, due to recent distributional shifts driven by #climate change. #Science #Ecology #Biology ⏯️science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Ikke noe annet sted i verden har hatt så sterk oppvarming av klimaet som Svalbard og Bjørnøya. Nå har forskere oppdaget at en ny fugl har oppstått på Bjørnøya: forskning.no/klima-zoologi/…

Coinciding with a century of climate change in the Arctic, a hybrid and less genetically diverse puffin colony has evolved in Norway within the last 100 years, a new @ScienceAdvances study finds. scim.ag/4nq

🤩 Super interesting case of hybridization in puffins #climatechange!

This finding was a surprise for us. We never thought we could pinpoint the start of puffin hybridization in the Arctic to such a recent point in time: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Check out the many contributers!

Two distinct subspecies of Atlantic puffins are now interbreeding in Norway, possibly as a result of Arctic warming forcing some birds away from their usual habitat #Echobox=1696621130" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newscientist.com/article/239644…

New publication: Hybridization of Atlantic puffins in the Arctic coincides with 20th-century climate change: @OKerstenScience @krabberod @lane_atmore @olektoerresen @kjetillj Bastiaan Star, Sanne Boessenkool @archaeogenomics @biovitenskap @ScienceAdvances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Die #Klimakrise gefährdet #Papageitaucher in der #Arktis. Weil das Eis schmilzt, geraten Artengrenzen aus dem Gleichgewicht. Das führt zu einer Verarmung der genetischen Vielfalt. Wissenschaftlerïnnen sind besorgt. @ThomasKrumenac1 #ornithologie riffreporter.de/de/umwelt/klim…