Quentin HORTA

How does selection shape canalization? How does that influence speciation? We tacked this question by studying gene expression variatiability in Arctic charr embryos - the paper is out! 🐟 nature.com/articles/s4200… An explanatory thread 🧵

Yesterday our group had the pleasure of hearing @HortaQuentin's research on lacertid lizards - the group I studied for my PhD over 12 years ago! This just shows that lacertids never go out of style...🦎🦎🦎

Did you know there are 4 morphs (types) of Arctic charr in Thingvallavatn? It’s the same fish but very different in size, colour & what they eat 🐟 Stay tuned for more posts on Arctic charr as many researchers are interested in studying them all over Iceland🇮🇸 #IceFishResearch

🌟 Evolution Evolving Book Launch 🌟 7 November 2024 You can attend the 'Evolution Evolving' book launch event, either in person, at the beautiful KLI in Klosterneuburg, Vienna, Austria, or online. To register email evoevolving@gmail.com. – Meet the authors – Hear Kevin Lala give a summary of the book – Watch a panel discussion, with authors Kevin Lala, Tobias Uller, Nathalie Feiner, Marc Feldman and Scott Gilbert. – Commentaries from Gerd Muller (KLI) and Tim Lewens (Cambridge). – Participate in a Q&A about new developments in evolutionary biology. Food and wine reception. Venue: Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research Martinstraße 12, A-3400 Klosterneuburg, Vienna, Austria Date and time: Thursday 7 November 2024, 2:00 – 7:00 pm CET. To find out more about 'Evolution Evolving' see evolutionevolving.org 'Evolution Evolving. The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity' is published by @PrincetonUPress .

Thankyou @MasahitoTsuboi for leading this author team behind this paper in @JEvBio! I am very excited about this and a proud member of the team. We now hope that we have made colleagues aware of an important bridge between micro- and macroevolution: academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-ar…

Great to see the final version out! Congrats @MasahitoTsuboi for leading this great collaborative work on the micro to macro questions! Insightful conceptual thoughts in there 👇 doi.org/10.1093/jeb/vo…

Delighted to share our new perspective article @JEvBio: rising evidence suggests unexpectedly robust link btw micro- and macroevolution. It challenges past views of evolution and calls for interdisciplinary research. #Evolution #EvoDevo #Paleontology 1/7 doi.org/10.1093/jeb/vo…

Why are animals often so theatrical when fighting a peer? Read the press release on our latest article to see how lizards limit aggression with ‘invisible’ colors, flamboyant posturing, and arm waves! Thanks to @OLiehrmann and @UniTurku @BehavEcol @ICBiBE_UV

Scott Gilbert: I’m thrilled to have our new book published. It brings together evolution, development, and ecology in ways that could not have been imagined in the last century. 'Evolution Evolving' will be published by @PrincetonUPress in six days time! For more information see evolutionevolving.org

A new understanding of adaptive evolution is emerging, thanks to an international team of scientists led by the @SchoolofBiology The team describe how the evolutionary process has itself evolved over time via @PrincetonUPress Read more👇 ow.ly/Ly6b50TurmI #EverToExcel

Phenotypic variances across six levels of biological organisations are all correlated. We propose "dialectical" relationships between micro- and macroevolution to explain our finding. Thrilled to hear what readers think about our idea! @KeitaSaito1227 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Check out @liekeponsioen's PhD project (supervised by Kalina Kapralova & @geoviews) 60 Arctic charr have been tracked in Thingvallavatn to gain information about their whereabouts throughout the year. Find out more here: icefishresearch.com/2024/08/29/tra… Stay tuned! @fia_finn

To stay on X or to go, now that Musk has turned this platform into an incubator for fascism? I don't blame anyone for leaving. But I'm staying. Why? Because of this solid political principle: *Never let the far right drive you out of any space.*

I wrote a popular science article of my recent paper on the Irish elk doi.org/10.1007/s11692… in The European Aecheologists, the news letter of @archaeologyEAA . Check out my article here -> e-a-a.org/EAA/Navigation…

The first chapter of my PhD is finally out in Bird Study 🥳🥳🥳 If you want to find out how the #whimbrel population in #Iceland is doing check this out 🐦🐣 📊 👉 doi.org/10.1080/000636… #waders #shorebirds

How to predict the evolution of complex phenotypes like shape? In ecoevorxiv.org/tkq9w we introduce a new method that efficiently combines information from selection and from past trait values. 1/4

Excited to share our latest paper on lizard contests and agonistic signals! Read on for a daydream on how being a lizard could be like, disguised as a discussion on the relative impact of static colour patches and behavioral displays in animal contests 🧵 academic.oup.com/beheco/article…

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☀️ 🐍🌧️ Often we study melanism vs other colors. But what about melanism variation at intraspecific level? Over 20 years, we found complex links between darker snakes and climate across Italy. Full OA: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

Soon presenting on lizard skulls at the #EED2024 symposium on Neural crest biology & microevolution!

Made it to Helsinki! 😃 🇫🇮 See you at #EED2024 for some chats on skull evolution & developmental biases