Leonardo Campagna

Evolutionary Biology, Genomics and Speciation 🇦🇷⚽️🎣

[Leonardo Campagna @evoleoC]

The Iberá Seedeater, a recently described species from Argentina, has a unique plumage that is a product of mixing coloration genes from closely related species.
These differences are enough to prevent it from interbreeding with its close relatives.

https://t.co/yyVQZ3pDvP

[Simón Kraemer @SimonKraemer98]

Today we presented the preliminary results of my PhD project with @evoleoC and Cecilia Kopuchian at @Evol_mtg #Evo2025

[Ran Blekhman @blekhman]

The reason biologists in your timeline are furious by this PR: the idea that species that diverged millions of years ago have only 20 genetic differences defies the fundamental principles of evolution. Like saying you turned a Honda Civic into a Formula 1 car by changing the oil

[Leonardo Campagna @evoleoC]

How do different types of genetic variants contribute to Capuchino Seedeater evolution?

@MariaRecuerda built a pangenome from 32 HiFi genomes, recovering 28% more sequence and 8% more genes than with a single reference.

More here: https://t.co/YgTTkvIsNC

[Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids 🦆🧬 @Jente_O]

The first Avian Hybrids story of 2025!

Convergent evolution of island melanism in the Chestnut-bellied Monarch
https://t.co/3xvXJ07j9G

Based on the PLoS Genetics paper by Leonardo Campagna and his colleagues | #ornithology

[PalaciosDCata @apalaciosdcata]

Hoy empezamos el Taller de Genómica Evolutiva 2024, en Bogotá, Colombia. Gracias a @selvaorgco @Uniandes @sse_evolution @CornellBirds @KentState

[Jonas Rosoni 🇧🇷🇦🇷🏳️‍🌈 @JonasRosoni_87]

My study on territorial behavior and breeding philopatry has just been published (open access, @FieldOrnith). It is the result of my doctoral thesis.

https://t.co/yHqBbDJJqL

[Simón Kraemer @SimonKraemer98]

Come check the poster I'm presenting with @evoleoC and Cecilia Kopuchian about my PhD project with Capuchinos at Esteros del Ibera.
#Evol2024 #Evolution #Sporophila #Capuchinos

[maxi jonas @maxijonas]

Esta es la mejor playa del mundo para ver ballenas, y es acá en Argentina

El Doradillo, Puerto Madryn

[Leonardo Campagna @evoleoC]

@oroporbaratijas @jmrojasripari se mudaron, ya vas a ver

[Leonardo Campagna @evoleoC]

How do structural variants shape avian phenotypes?
This is what @MariaRecue13274 learned mainly from chickens.

https://t.co/2iMGkuw6Oy
(pic by Dennis G. Jarvis - CC BY-SA 2.0)

[Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics]

@KalteneggerLisa, director of @CSInst at @Cornell, hunts for aliens in space by studying Earth across time, reports @beckyferreira for @nytimes. https://t.co/CH8h62eMfZ

[Vítor Piacentini @VQPiacentini]

That’s about half the annual salary of an university professor in Brazil.

[Leonardo Campagna @evoleoC]

In 2013 Márcio Repenning and Carla Fontana described Sporophila beltoni. In our new paper, @Tram_N_Nguyen and I teamed up with them to show how S. beltoni diverged from S. plumbea with a few genomic regions resisting introgression, despite high gene flow.

https://t.co/DyV0dMrOLK

[Christopher Wheat @ChrisWWheat]

“Variant scores calculated by GATK did not clearly distinguish true positives from false positives in the vast majority of cases, implying that hard-filtering with GATK could be challenging… results suggest that Bcftools mpileup may be the first choice for non-human studies”

[Leonardo Campagna @evoleoC]

@ethanblinck 💯

[Speciation_network @Speciation_net]

Hi Everyone! join us on 5th DEC 5pm CET for the next IOS seminar. Catherine Wagner and Carlos Daniel Cadena Ordoñez will give us a macroevolutionary perspective of speciation. Link on website https://t.co/Aa5kgQjDkd

[Enséñame de Ciencia @EnsedeCiencia]

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[American Ornithological Society @AmOrnith]

We are excited to announce Christina P. Riehl as the next editor-in-chief of the AOS journal, Ornithology. Dr. Riehl is an assoc. professor in the dept. of ecology and evolutionary biology at @Princeton. Read our full announcement.
https://t.co/KCwJSiKSCj
#ornithology #research

[Alex Lees @Alexander_Lees]

Your periodic reminder that paleoburrows - the subterranean lairs of extinct megafauna like ground-sloths and Glyptodonts - still exist https://t.co/X2TY0xwEj3