Yifan Pei

evo gen eco

[The birdGRC project - Marie Curie IF @birdGRC_]

Thanks all the amazing people involved in this collaborative work including @yfpei, @alexander_suh and others not in Twitter. @maxplanckpress @uniofeastanglia @biouea @UU_University @SystBio_UU @MSCActions
Link: https://t.co/IrQ910gUyx

[Yifan Pei @yfpei]

@s_grath Thank you Sonja! 😊

[Yifan Pei @yfpei]

Nevertheless, we @fjruizruano @alexander_suh found the GRC and the mtDNA trees from 9 different families do not match. This suggests that in the evolutionary past one GRC might spread the zebra finch population, crossing matriline boundaries via occasional paternal inheritance.

[Yifan Pei @yfpei]

Hi I’m a PhD student from Max Planck Institute for Ornithology. I’m excited to share our findings published at https://t.co/6t4Kyr93Pr. With @fjruizruano @alexander_suh et al. we found the songbird germline-restricted chromosome (GRC) can occasionally be inherited from the father

[Yifan Pei @yfpei]

The GRC was previously believed to be only inherited from the mothers, due to its expulsion from sperm. In our study, in addition to our observation of GRC-carrying sperm, we also found a hybrid zebra finch that got his GRC from one of the paternal generations.

[MPI for Biological Intelligence @MPIforBI]

Songbirds have an extra chromosome that was believed to be maternally inherited. A team led by Bart Kempenaers & @alexander_suh shows that it can also be paternally inherited – a key step in understanding the evolution of this chromosome. https://t.co/Fmp6IgSlPp @yfpei @PNASnews