Journal club

View over a lake with a rainbow in the background

Torsten Struck, UiO

CEG runs a journal club together with regular participation of interested members of the Evolution and Paleobiology (EPA) and the Sex and Evolution (SERG) research groups. The seminar is coordinated by Marianne Nilsen Haugen (CEG). The journal club meets every other week on Wednesdays 1 p.m. in the lunchroom of Colletts hus. Guests are always welcome.

The programme:

15. May 2024: Anna Lotta Hillos (CEG)

Odle et al. 2020. Pacific marine gregarines (Apicomplexa) shed light on biogeographic speciation  patterns and novel diversity among early apicomplexans. European Journal of Protistology 94: 126080.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0932473924000300#b0325

17. April 2024: Michael Matschiner (SERG)

Stiller et al. 2024. Complexity of avian evolution revealed by family-level genomes. Nature. 

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07323-1

03. April 2024: Enrico Perlini (CEG)

Rey-Iglesias et al. 2020. Mitogenomics of the endangered Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) reveals dramatic loss of diversity and supports historical gene-flow between Atlantic and eastern Mediterranean populations. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 191: 1147–1159.

https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa084

20. March 2024: Torsten H. Struck (CEG)

Lewin et al. 2024. Fusion, fission, and scrambling of the bilaterian genome in Bryozoa. bioRxiv.

https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.15.580425

06. March 2024: James Fleming (CEG)

Wright et al. 2024. Comparative genomics reveals the dynamics of chromosome evolution in Lepidoptera. Nature Ecology and Evolution.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02329-4

21. February 2024: Mali Hamre Ramsfjell (EPA)

Robinson et al. 2023. Intra-colony venom diversity contributes to maintaining eusociality in a cooperatively breeding ant. BMC Biology 215
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12915-022-01507-9

07. February 2024: Marvin Choquet (CEG)

Lebherz et al. 2023. DNA Transposons favour de novo transcripts emergence through enrichment of transcription factor binding motifs. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.10.03.560692

24. January 2024: Vladimir Gusarov (CEG)

Bracewell et al. 2023. Sex chromosome evolution in beetles. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.18.524646

10. January 2024: Marianne Nilsen Haugen (CEG)

French et al. 2023. Global determinants of insect mitochondrialgenetic diversity. Nature Communications 14: 5276. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40936-0

13. December 2023: Marvin Choquet (FEZ)

Gerdol et al. 2020. Massive gene presence-absence variation shapes an open pan-genome in the Mediterranean mussel. Genome Biology 21: 275. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13059-020-02180-3

06. December 2023: cancelled due to sickness

29. November 2023: cancelled due to sickness​

22. November 2023: Anna Lotta Hillos (FEZ)

Brian 2023. Parasites in biodiversity conservation: friend or foe? Trends in Parasitology 39: 618-621. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2023.05.005

15. November 2023: Mali Hamre Ramsfjell (EPA)

Robinson et al. 2023. Intra-colony venom diversity contributes to maintaining eusociality in a cooperatively breeding ant. BMC Biology 21: 5. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12915-022-01507-9

08. November 2023: Alberto Valero Gracia (FEZ)

Nilsson 2021. The Diversity of Eyes and Vision. Annual Review of Vision Science 7:19-41. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-vision-121820-074736

01. November 2023: Torsten H. Struck  (FEZ)

Anderson et al. 2023. Fossilisation processes and our reading of animal antiquity. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 38: 1060-1071. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534723001374

25. October 2023: Sunniva Løviknes  (FEZ)

Fonseca et al. 2022. Metabarcoding the Antarctic Peninsula biodiversity using a multi-gene approach.  ISME COMMUN. 2: 37.  https://www.nature.com/articles/s43705-022-00118-3

18. October 2023: Benedicte Garmann-Aarhus (SERG)

Lau et al. 2023. Genomic evidence for West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse during the Last Interglacial Period. bioRxiv.  https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.29.525778v1

​11. October 2023: Pia Merete Eriksen (FEZ)

Schultz et al. 2023. Ancient gene linkages support ctenophores as sister to other animals. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05936-6

​04. October 2023: Vladimir Gusarov (FEZ)

Löbl et al. 2023. The Silent Extinction of Species and Taxonomists—An Appeal to Science Policymakers and Legislators, Diversity 15: 1053.  https://doi.org/10.3390/d15101053

​27. September 2023: Carolann R. Schack (EPA)

Munroi et al. 2022. Evolution of Gene Expression across Species and Specialized Zooids in Siphonophor, Molecular Biology Evolution 39: msac027. https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/39/2/msac027/6521037

​20. September 2023: Lutz Bachmann (FEZ)

D’Bastiani et al. 2023. Effect of Host-Switching on the Ecological and Evolutionary Patterns of Parasites, Systematic Biology 72: 912–924. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syad022

​13. September 2023: Marion Thaureau (EPA)

Li et al. 2018. Microevolutionary processes impact macroevolutionary patterns. BMC Evolutionary Biology 18: 123. https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-018-1236-8

​30. August 2023: James G. Saulsbury (EPA)

Caetano & Quental 2023. How Important Is Budding Speciation for Comparative Studies? Systematic Biology,  syad050. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syad050

​23. August 2023: Meghan Balk (EPA)

Farina et al. 2023. Dollo meets Bergmann: morphological evolution in secondary aquatic mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society. B.29020231099. http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.1099

16. August 2023: general discussion

We will discuss various recent contributions to Nature Ecology and Evolution (2023) on Eponyms

- Guedes et al. Eponyms have no place in 21st-century biological nomenclature. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02022-y

- Antonelli et al. People-inspired names remain valuable. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02108-7

- Mabele et al. Disrupting the epistemic empire is necessary for a decolonial ecology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02105-w

- Jost. et al. Eponyms are important tools for biologists in the Global South.  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02102-z

- Roksandic et al. Change in biological nomenclature is overdue and possible.  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02104-x

- Orr et al. Inclusive and productive ways forward needed for species-naming conventions. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02103-y

- Thiele. Some, but not all, eponyms should be disallowed. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02106-9

​09. August 2023: Marianne Nilsen Haugen (FEZ)

Balart-Garcia et al. 2023. Parallel and convergent genomic changes underlie independent subterranean colonization across beetles Nature Communications 14: 3842. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39603-1

​02. August 2023: Michael Matschiner (SERG)

Yamaguchi et al. 2022. The Phoenix hypothesis of speciation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289: 20221186. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.1186

SUMMER BREAK

 

28. June 2023: summer party

​Shared journal club with the SERG group

21. June 2023: Becky Cramer (SERG)

Rigal et al. 2023. Farmland practices are driving bird population decline across Europe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120: e2216573120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2216573120

​14. June 2023: James Fleming (FEZ)

David & Halanych 2023. Unsupervised Deep Learning Can Identify Protein Functional Groups from Unaligned Sequences. Genome Biology and Evolution 15: evad084. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad084

​07. June 2023: Fabrizia Nina Ronco (SERG)

Parey et al. 2023. Genome structures resolve the early diversification of teleost fishes. Science 379, 572–575. https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.abq4257

31. May 2023: Mael A. Grosse (FEZ)

Dias & Sukumaran 2023. Are genomic indices effective alternatives to morphology based benthic indices in biomonitoring studies? Perspectives from a major harbour and marine protected area. Marine Pollution Bulletin 187: 114586. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.114586

​24. May 2023: Torsten H. Struck (FEZ)

Schultz et al. 2023. Ancient gene linkages support ctenophores as sister to other animals. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05936-6

​10. May 2023: Lutz Bachmann (FEZ)

Schrader & Schmitz. 2019. The impact of transposable elements in adaptive evolution. Molecular Ecology 28: 1537-1549. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14794

​03. May 2023: Mali Hamre Ramsfjell (EPA)

Nelsen et al. 2023. Macroecological diversification of ants is linked to angiosperm evolution. Evolution Letters 7: 79–87. https://academic.oup.com/evlett/article/7/2/79/7081456

​26. April 2023: Torsten H. Struck (FEZ)

Davinack 2023. Can ChatGPT be leveraged for taxonomic investigations? Potential and limitations of a new technology. ZooTaxa 5270: 347–350. https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5270.2.12

​19. April 2023: Alberto Valero Gracia (FEZ)

Budd & Mann. 2020. The dynamics of stem and crown groups. Science Advances 6, eaaz1626 https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.aaz1626

​12. April 2023: Marvin Choquet (FEZ)

Choo et al. 2023. Genome-wide phylogeography reveals cryptic speciation in the circumglobal planktonic calcifier Limacina bulimoides. Molecular Ecology. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.16931

!! HAPPY EASTER - the seminar will take a break !!​

22. March 2023: Angelica Maria Cuevas Pulido (EPA)

Bergeron et al. 2023. Evolution of the germline mutation rate across vertebrates. Nature.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05752-y

​15. March 2023: James Fleming (FEZ)

Lara et al. 2023. Genome-Scale Analysis Reveals Extensive Diversification of Voltage-Gated K+ Channels in Stem Cnidarians. Genome Biology and Evolution 15. https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/15/3/evad009/6994550

​08. March 2023: Carolann R. Schack (EPA)

Rhoda et al. 2023. Diversification of the ruminant skull along an evolutionary line of least resistance. Science Advances 9. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ade8929

01. March 2023: Ana Capucho (FEZ)

Wood & Vanhove 2022. Is the world wormier than it used to be? We'll never know without natural history collections. Journal of Animal Ecology 92: 250-262. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2656.13794

​22. February 2023: Kjetil Lysne Voje (EPA)

Stuart et al. 2020. Inferred genetic architecture underlying evolution in a fossil stickleback lineage. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4: 1549–1557. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-01287-x

​15. February 2023: Liepa Adomaityte (FEZ)

de Andrade Silva et al. 2022. Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) coupled with chemometric methods to identify and estimate taxonomic relationships of flies with forensic potential (Diptera: Calliphoridae and Sarcophagidae). Acta Tropica 235: 106672. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001706X22003643?via%3Dihub

​01. February 2023: Marianne Nilsen Haugen (FEZ)

Miller et al. 2023. The ecology and evolution of key innovations. TREE 38: 2.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2022.09.005

​25. January 2023: James G. Saulsbury (EPA)

Vermeija 2023. Evolutionary norm-breaking and extinction in the marine tropics PNAS 120: e2217880120 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2217880120

​18. January 2023: Michael Matschiner (SERG)

Caron & Pie 2022. Arrested diversification? The phylogenetic distribution of poorly-diversifying lineages. NPJ Biodiversity 1: 5. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44185-022-00004-0

​2022

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!

14. December 2022: group discussion

Cooper et al. 2015. Mark-Release-Recapture Reveals Extensive Movement of Bed Bugs (Cimex lectularius L.) within and between Apartments. PLoS ONE 1: e0136462. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0136462

07. December 2022: James Fleming (FEZ)

Giacomeli  et al. 2022. Resolving tricky nodes in the tree of life through amino acid recoding, iScience 25, 105594. https://www.cell.com/iscience/pdf/S2589-0042(22)01866-1.pdf

​30. November 2022: Mali Hamre Ramsfjell (EPA)

Jarvis et al. 2022. Macroevolutionary patterns in marine hermaphroditism, Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14639

23. November 2022: institutional cleaning day - no seminar

​16. November 2022: Carolann R. Schack (EPA)

Griffith et al. 2022. Using functional traits to identify conservation priorities for the world's crocodylians, Functional Ecology: 1–13, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14140

09. November 2022: Torsten Struck (FEZ)

Deline et al. 2020. Evolution and Development at the Origin of a Phylum, Current Biology 30: 1–8, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.02.054

​02. November 2022: Rita M.Austin (FEZ)

Klunk et al. 2022. Evolution of immune genes is associated with the Black Death. Nature.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05349-x

​26. October 2022: Kjetil Lysne Voje (EPA)

McGlothlin et al. 2022. Conservation and Convergence of Genetic Architecture in the Adaptive Radiation of Anolis Lizards. The American Naturalist 200. https://doi.org/10.1086/721091

​19. October 2022: Ana Capucho (FEZ)

Hughes et al. 2022. The homogenization of avian morphological and phylogenetic diversity under the global extinction crisis. Current Biology 32: 3830-3837. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982222009770

​12. October 2022: James Fleming (FEZ)

Kasperbauer 2017. Should We Bring Back the Passenger Pigeon? The Ethics of De-Extinction. Ethics, Policy & Environment 20: 1-14.  https://doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2017.1291831

​05. October 2022: Thore Koppetsch (SERG)

Sullivan et al. 2017. Human behaviour as a long-term ecological driver of non-human evolution. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1: 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-016-0065

​28. September 2022: Alberto Valero Gracia (FEZ)

Schwander & Laimer 2011. Genes as leaders and followers in evolution. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 26: 143-151. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534710003022

​21. September 2022: Pia Merete Eriksen (FEZ)

Maroni et al. 2022. One Antarctic slug to confuse them all: the underestimated diversity of Doris kerguelenensis. Invertebrate Systematics 36: 419–435  https://doi.org/10.1071/IS21073

​14. September 2022: Carolann R. Schack (EPA)

Kuntz et al. 2022. Inheritance of somatic mutations by animal offspring. Science Advances 8: eabn0707 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn0707

​07. September 2022: James G. Saulsbury (EPA)

Ballesteros et al. 2022. Comprehensive species sampling and sophisticated algorithmic approaches refute the monophyly of Arachnida. Molecular Biology and Evolution 39: msac021. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msac021

​31. August 2022: Vladimir Gusarov (FEZ)

Novak 2018. De-Extinction Genes 9, 548. https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/9/11/548

​24. August 2022: Lutz Bachmann (FEZ)

Lin al. 2022. Probing the genomic limits of de-extinction in the Christmas Island rat. Current Biology 32: 1650-1656. 

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.02.027

​17. August 2022: Rita M. Austin (FEZ)

Zhao al. 2022. Evaporative water loss of 1.42 million global lakes. Nature communications 13: 1-10. .https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31125-6

 

SUMMER BREAK

 

​22. June 2022: Mali Hamre Ramsfjell (EPA)

Mathes et al. 2021. Deep-time climate legacies affect origination rates of marine genera. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118,  e2105769118. https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2105769118

​15. June 2022: Lee Hsiang Liow (EPA)

Boroviec et al. 2022. Deep learning as a tool for ecology and evolution. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.  https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13901

​08. June 2022: Torsten H. Struck (FEZ)

Wiemann et al. 2022. Fossil biomolecules reveal an avian metabolism in the ancestral dinosaur. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04770-6

01. June 2022: James Fleming (FEZ)

Buček et al. 2022. Molecular phylogeny reveals the past transoceanic voyages of drywood termites (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae). Molecular Biology and Evolution, 39, msac093.

https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/39/5/msac093/6577226

​25. May 2022: Kjetil Voje (EPA)

Coombs et al. 2022. The tempo of cetacean cranial evolution. Current Biology. 

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.04.060

18. May 2022: Ana T. Capucho (FEZ)

Eisenhauer et al. 2019. Recognizing the quiet extinction of invertebrates. Nature communications 10: 1-3.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-07916-1

​11. May 2022: Liepa Adomaityte (FEZ)

Kaufer et al. 2017. The evolution of trypanosomatid taxonomy. Parasites Vectors 10, 287. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-017-2204-7

04. May 2022: Alberto Valero Gracia (FEZ)

Moris et al. 2016. Transition states and cell fate decisions in epigenetic landscapes. Nature Reviews Genetics 17: 693-703. https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg.2016.98

​27. April 2022: Connor Wilson (EPA)

Rohwer et al. 2022. Declining growth of natural history collections fails future generations. PLoS Biol 20(4): e3001613. 

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001613

​20. April 2022: Torsten Struck (FEZ)

Kumar, S. 2022. Embracing Green Computing in Molecular Phylogenetics. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 39(3), msac043. https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/39/3/msac043/6542113

 

!! HAPPY EASTER - the seminar will take a break !!​

​06. April 2022: Michael Matschiner (SERG)

Fraisse et al. 2022. Introgression between highly divergent sea squirt genomes: an adaptive breakthrough? bioRxiv. : https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.22.485319

30. March 2022: Lutz Bachmann (FEZ)

Dolby et al. 2022. Integrating Earth–life systems: a geogenomic approach. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 37. 
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2021.12.004

23. March 2022: James G. Saulsbury (EPA)

Kapli et al. 2021. Lack of support for Deuterostomia prompts reinterpretation of the first Bilateria. Science Advances 7: eabe2741. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abe2741

16. March 2022: Rita M. Austin (FEZ)

Jensen et al.  2022. Ancient and historical DNA in conservation policy. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2021.12.010

09. March 2022: Torsten H. Struck (FEZ)

Simakov et al. 2022 Deeply conserved synteny and the evolution of metazoan chromosomes. Science Advances 8: eabi5884 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abi5884

23. February 2022: Mali Hamre Ramsfjell (EPA)

Renzi et al. 2022. The role of predators in coral disease dynamics. Coral Reefs.

 https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00338-022-02219-w.pdf

​16. February 2022: James Fleming (FEZ)

Pates et al. 2021. New opabiniid diversifies the weirdest wonders of the euarthropod stem group. group.  Proc. R. Soc. B 289: 20212093. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2021.2093

​09. February 2022: Vladimir Gusarov (FEZ)

Mastrantonio et al. 2019. Paternal leakage and mtDNA heteroplasmy in Rhipicephalus spp. ticks. Scientific Reports 9: 1460. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-38001-8

​02. February 2022: Ana T. Capucho (FEZ)

Faria et al. 2021. Speciation in marine environments: Diving under the surface. J Evol Biol. 34:4–15.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jeb.13756

26. January 2022: Thore Koppetsch (SERG)

Dufresnes et al. 2021. Mass of genes rather than master genes underlie the genomic architecture of amphibian speciation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2103963118

​19. January 2022: Kjetil Lysne Voje (EPA)

Smith et al. 2020. Phylogenetics is the New Genetics (for Most of Biodiversity). Trends in Ecology & Evolution 35: 415-425. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2020.01.005

12. January 2022: Marianne Nilsen Haugen (FEZ)

Anurag et al. 2021. The evolution of coevolution in the study of species interactions. Evolution 75: 1594–1606. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/evo.14293

 
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