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A very enjoyable collaboration: giant genomes for amazing fish: Relaxation of Natural Selection in the Evolution of the Giant Lungfish Genomes academic.oup.com/mbe/article/40…

Biodiversity and genomics for everyone with @erga_biodiv : The European Reference Genome Atlas: piloting a decentralised approach to equitable biodiversity genomics biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

A correspondence piece announcing the main goals of the European Reference Genome Atlas initiative was just published in @Nature! nature.com/articles/d4158… Join our mission as we work to enable the production of reference #genomes of European eukaryotic #Biodiversity at scale

Penguins! (With @emitruc): nature.com/articles/s4143…

"Viviparity and habitat restrictions may influence the evolution of male reproductive genes in tsetse fly (Glossina) species", an enjoyable collaboration with, among others, Grazia Savini, Francesca Scolari, Anna Malacrida, @orotastabelli, @AttardoGeoff: rdcu.be/cymd4

Happy to share this work done with @fedevalerio92, Nicola Zadra and @orotastabelli: The impact of fast radiation on the phylogeny of Bactrocera fruit flies biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our latest, long in the making: Phylogenomics of opsin genes in Diptera reveals lineage-specific events and contrasting evolutionary dynamics in Anopheles and Drosophila just out on GBE academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-ar…

Great collaboration with great friends:

Preprint from @MeganAWallace and @Dros_EU: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… New #Drosophila Nudiviruses, a Poxvirus, a segmented Bidna-like virus & some others Direct download for a list of all Drosophila viruses bit.ly/DrosVirusN and fasta sequences bit.ly/DrosVirusS

Great collaborative effort, with Tobias Weil and Gianfranco Anfora et al.: Linking omics and ecology to dissect interactions between the apple pr... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The diverging evolutionary history of opsin genes in Diptera biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

#PLOSNTDs: Polymorphism analyses and protein modelling inform on functional specialization of Piwi clade gene ... dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

We're one, but we're not the same. Different Drosophila suzukii in different invaded countries. In our new JPS paper link.springer.com/article/10.100…

We are glad to release the #DrosEU video presentation. A brief summary of the scientific objectives, opportunities, achievements and the collaborative spirit of this grassroots effort interested #Drosophila evolutionary #genetics and #genomics youtu.be/XxTuwgcQsao via @YouTube

A chromosome-level genome assembly of Cydia pomonella provides insights into chemical ecology and insecticide… disq.us/t/3ibq8o9

I'm happy to announce the publication of the comparative genomic analysis of 6 tsetse fly species. Come read about the genes behind the fly. Tremendous thanks to all the co-authors who made this possible. rdcu.be/bP90P @ProfSerapAksoy

The Glossina Genome Cluster: Comparative Genomic Analysis of the Vectors of African Trypanosomes biorxiv.org/content/10.110…