gavin woodruff

Development, evolution, worms, gene name etymology. I retweet/tweet to log interesting papers, questions, and ideas. Asst Prof @OU_Biology.

[gavin woodruff @weird_worms]

We are hiring! The School of Biological Sciences at the University of Oklahoma is seeking an Assistant Professor studying the Neurobiology of Pain. Applications are due Nov. 21. Please share with colleagues!

https://t.co/GSEqPovCnL

[Evolution Letters @EvolLetters]

Fluctuating selection in a monkeyflower hybrid zone
https://t.co/Oy1iAFJLs4

Now in @EvolLetters by Diana Tataru, Max De Leon, Spencer Dutton, Fidel Machado Perez, Alexander Rendahl, Kathleen G Ferris

[Li Zhao @lizzyzhao]

Nicolas Svetec, David Begun, and I wrote a review article about de novo genes. If you are interested in this topic please take a look at this final open-access version @AnnualReviews https://t.co/R8lybrezoq.

[Jonathan Pritchard @jkpritch]

In a new preprint led by @TheNikhilMilind, we explored a fascinating paradox:
For many traits the number of duplications or loss-of-function (LoF) mutations is correlated with phenotype. Curiously, for most traits, the AVERAGE direction of LoFs and Dups is the SAME. Why?

[PLOS Biology @PLOSBiology]

Rapid centromere evolution: @CecileCourret @AmLarracuente &co's study of #centromere #evolution over short timescales in #Drosophila reveals dramatic #centromere reorganization involving recurrent shifts between retroelements & satellites #PLOSBiology https://t.co/J853uZEiYz

[Anna Allen @akallen10]

The #1 piece of advice I give people applying for NSF funding...

**Talk to a Program Director**

We are not scary. Promise. Our job is to help figure out the best place for your research to be reviewed at NSF. If you email & don't hear back in a week, please email again!

[EvoDevo PanAm @EvoDevoPanAm]

https://t.co/HKjLRvIFMd A developmental constraint; different genes for the same body segmentation in Drosophila and Oncopeltus! From Leslie Pick lab @UMDEntomology

[Ricard Solé @ricard_sole]

Is there a logic in the space of tumours? What is the impact of ecological, developmental and evolutionary components in defining cancer trajectories? Check our paper with @AguadeGuim and @YaleMed Josep Costa https://t.co/4x17iutfOX

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

New @Nature
A mechanism for why durable weight loss is so difficult: epigenetic memory of fat cells
https://t.co/bfyTkvWS1P
@vonMeyenn @laurahinte

[Jeffrey Dongying XIE @Jeffrey37347708]

https://t.co/92h18W5tck

[gavin woodruff @weird_worms]

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[Jeffrey Dongying XIE @Jeffrey37347708]

So excited that our work on the first speciation gene pair in nematodes C. briggsae and C. nigoni finally got published on PNAS. It is really a tough but thrilling journey! It is just the beginning of the story of F-box genes, and I cannot wait to tackle the next one! Stay tuned

[gavin woodruff @weird_worms]

Harnessing full-text publications for deep insights into C. elegans and Drosophila biomaps

https://t.co/Lqa6rjiMkk

[Arlin @ArlinStoltzfus]

I'm not sure how arrival bias relates to the numbers of codons. But quite a lot has been written about the evolution of the genetic code. You might find possible answers there.

A good place to start is this review by Koonin, et al.

12/12

https://t.co/qrz1v6iU3g

[gavin woodruff @weird_worms]

Real age prediction from the transcriptome with RAPToR

https://t.co/PGKugQwYEh

[Royal Society Publishing @RSocPublishing]

SID-2, vital for RNAi in C. elegans, is present in Clade V parasitic nematodes. Found in H. bakeri extracellular vesicles, new research reveals potential ancestral roles beyond #RNAi https://t.co/jb57ILLnqD @amyhbuck @SBSatEd @RutgersBioSci #Parasitology #OpenBiology

[gavin woodruff @weird_worms]

Emergence of dauer larvae in Caenorhabditis elegans disrupts continuity of host-microbiome interactions

https://t.co/fbGCxWsFNx

[gavin woodruff @weird_worms]

Repeat-based holocentromeres of the woodrush Luzula sylvatica reveal insights into the evolutionary transition to holocentricity

https://t.co/0LtRAbY1xP

[gavin woodruff @weird_worms]

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Rapid chromosome evolution and acquisition of thermosensitive stochastic sex determination in nematode androdioecious hermaphrodites

https://t.co/knwTPsuIRN

[Valentine Svensson @vallens]

After some outage due to hosting moves, the single cell studies database Google Sheet frontend is back: https://t.co/qtAF8FUiM6