I've just been reminded of this masterwork book cover. I hope someday my work is cool enough to merit something even half as weird. #Science #ScientificIllustration #Genomics #EvolutionaryBiology

PHYLOPIC 2.0 HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY RELEASED! Check out the new, faster, more useful version here, with 6320 free silhouettes (and counting): https://www.phylopic.org
#sciart #science #evolution #evolutionarybiology #phylogenetics #illustration #viz #art #visualization #biology

"In light of this development, there has clearly been a paradigm shift away from the sexual stereotypes dominating the early era of sexual selection research towards a more nuanced viewpoint acknowledging that females can be subject to sexual selection too. This progress was substantially fostered by the rise of molecular paternity analyses in the early 1990s revealing that females of many putatively monogamous species are actually polyandrous [25]—also called the “polyandry revolution” [26], which spurred the quest for understanding the adaptive significance of multiple mating from a female perspective."

#Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #SexualSelection

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.3001916&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Happy to announce this #preprint , the culmination of last 10 years. 🥳

We find that #antimicrobialpeptides are evolved to control specific #microbiome #bacteria. This example is a textbook case of host #immune #evolution being shaped by the microbiome 🦠 which depends on host #ecology.

Thanks for comments! Bit of an experiment: we are posting pre-submit to get feedback 🙂.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.23.521774v2.full
#immunity #Drosophila #EvolutionaryBiology #inflammation #NFkB