Carlos Arias

Evolutionary biologist, Interested in hybrid zones and speciation. Postdoc at Smithsonian OCIO Data Science Lab and STRI

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

The global wildlife trade—especially in illegal and live-animal markets—is fueling the spread of diseases from animals to humans, according to a new study in Science.

The findings show that traded mammals are more than 40% more likely to harbor human-infecting pathogens, with species accumulating more shared pathogens the longer they remain in the trade.

Learn more: https://t.co/9GsERoW0We

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

A newly discovered fossil ape from northern Egypt is reshaping the understanding of early hominoid evolution, researchers report in Science.

The fossil finding suggests that the closest ancestors to modern apes may have emerged in northern Africa, outside the traditionally studied regions of East Africa. https://t.co/n3wo0iBuLb

[@EcoEvoRxiv @ecoevorxiv]

Guidelines and best practices for the scientific use of global iNaturalist data.

https://t.co/aYFX1DhDb2

[Dr. Laura Bertola @LauraDBertola]

Four centuries of commercial whaling eroded 11,000 years of population stability in bowhead whales
https://t.co/MMP2M7AYvh

[@EcoEvoRxiv @ecoevorxiv]

Meta-analysis showing that immunisation is an effective method to reduce amphibian susceptibility to the chytrid fungus

https://t.co/HduVkI4Iv1

[Andrew Hendry @EcoEvoEvoEco]

The Null Hypothesis is Always Wrong!

New blog post - check it out.

https://t.co/rbjRpR07Wp

[Senacyt Panamá @senacyt]

Hongos aliados del cacao

Lea la nota completa en nuestra página de #Ciencia hoy en la @EstrellaOnline
https://t.co/ptyV0Sr3Zk

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

According to a new genomic study of Australia’s koala populations, rapid demographic rebound may be able to restore once-lost genetic variation and drive recombination in ways that re-establish long-term evolutionary potential in previously bottlenecked populations.

Learn more in Science: https://t.co/qZZDCg4kmV

[Kim Lea Holzmann @KL_Holzmann]

Big effort, exciting results - our paper on the constraints of thermal limits in tropical insects is now out in @Nature! 🦋🐝🪰🪲🦗 @ANDIV1234

https://t.co/aWoyktD1ci

[Takashi Fukaya @FukayaLab]

Diving into evolutionary biology! What is the origin of the most abundant class of insect transcription factors, ZAD-ZnFs? We suggest that they evolved from ancestral insulator-binding proteins. https://t.co/Ek1cNRtHy4

[Carlos Prada 🐡🐠🐋 @carlosdiversity]

Excited to see our research featured in PBS! A look into the biodiversity, resilience, and vulnerability of the Gulf. Grateful to work with such an amazing team. https://t.co/26SCHnWJOC @uricels @URIGSO

[bioRxiv Evobio @biorxiv_evobio]

Rapid speciation in small populations challenges the dominance of ecological speciation https://t.co/SjcuJEfGpe #biorxiv_evobio

[🧬Jacob L Steenwyk @jlsteenwyk]

OrthoSNAP v1.5.0 is here with big speed and usability upgrades. Extracting single-copy ortholog subtrees from larger, multi-copy gene families and with automated plotting

What's new:
- Visualize inferred SNAP-OGs directly on the full gene tree
- Runs about 27 times (1/3)

[Nature Reviews Biodiversity @NatRevBiodiv]

New online! Evolution, genomics and conservation of butterflies and moths https://t.co/OBzkp4vAcB

[Andrew Hendry @EcoEvoEvoEco]

Genome size and phenotypic change: insights on contemporary evolution across biological groups.

New analysis of the PROCEED database in J Evol Biol.

Led by Lucas Gorne with @photopidge & F Pelletier

[Thomas Near @TJNear]

New from #NearLab, Phylogenomics and the origins of sharks led by @ChaseBrownstein

https://t.co/5bOuzzQDG4

[Earth Archives @EarthArchivesHQ]

Scientists have uncovered a surprising genetic shift that may explain how animals with backbones—from fish and frogs to humans—became so complex.

https://t.co/t46jraovAd

#fossils #paleontology

[Dr. Laura Bertola @LauraDBertola]

The value of structural variants to conservation genomics in the pangenome era
https://t.co/pDvG3VOdNt

[Yunha Hwang @Micro_Yunha]

This is an awesome paper!

[Scripps Institution of Oceanography @Scripps_Ocean]

🐠 Thanks to @NSF support & a partnership between @uprm and Scripps Oceanography, thousands of marine specimens were saved, conserved & integrated into a world-class research collection, fueling discoveries in evolution, biogeography & conservation. 🔬
https://t.co/GIxt0d6RDh