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🤗🌄👏 We welcome Johanna Beirer as a new member @Mol_Ecol @uniinnsbruck !
Johanna does her master thesis on the circadian rhythm of an #Alpine #Drosophila #fly in the context of #ClimateChange
https://molecular-ecology.at/johanna-beirer/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06397-7 Lots of hard work over a span of six years, large sample size (= number of fruitflies) and rigorous #stats Debunking science is hard work - this paper is very well done. #science #fruitflies #drosophila
No evidence for magnetic field effects on the behaviour of Drosophila - Nature
Following testing of magnetic field effects on 97,658 flies moving in a two-arm maze and on 10,960 flies performing spontaneous escape behaviour (negative geotaxis), no evidence was found for magnetically sensitive behaviour in Drosophila.Nature
"Here Muller was exceptionally lucky, because the somatic pairing of homologous chromosomes along their entire length—readily seen in #Drosophila—is not a general feature of eukaryotes."
https://academic.oup.com/genetics/advance-article/doi/10.1093/genetics/iyad015/7058543?searchresult=1
101 years ago: Hermann Muller's remarkable insight
Abstract. More than 20 years before DNA was identified as the hereditary material, the Drosophila geneticist, Hermann Muller, envisioned the fundamental principHaber, James E (Oxford University Press)
by 🔬 Gaspar Bruner-Montero, Carlos M Luque, Cássia Siqueira Cesar, Shuai Dominique Ding, Jonathan P Day, Francis Michael Jiggins
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36996192/ #Drosophila
Hunting Drosophila viruses from wild populations: A novel isolation approach and characterisation of viruses - PubMed
Metagenomic studies have demonstrated that viruses are extremely diverse and abundant in insects, but the difficulty of isolating them means little is known about the biology of these newly discovered viruses.PubMed
@jobsecoevo #ScienceJobs #PostdocJob #EcoEvo #CellBiology #Genetics #Symbiosis #Bacteria #Insects #Wolbachia #Drosophila
Postdoctoral Scholar of Host-Microbe Interactions
The Shropshire Lab (Lehigh University, Pennsylvania) is seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral researcher to study host-microbe interactions.https://shropshirelab.com/author/j-dylan-shropshireprotonmail-com/#author (My WordPress)
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
Single innate immune effectors control ecological microbiome bacteria across evolutionary timescales
Antimicrobial peptides are host-encoded antibiotics that combat invading microbes and help shape the microbiome in plants and animals.bioRxiv