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Featuring research on 🧪
🦆Threats to migratory shorebirds
🌍Phosphorus constraints on global photosynthesis
🦠Evolution of the meerkat MHC
Cover shows a larva of an emperor moth, from Li et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Featuring research on 🧪
🦆Threats to migratory shorebirds
🌍Phosphorus constraints on global photosynthesis
🦠Evolution of the meerkat MHC
Cover shows a larva of an emperor moth, from Li et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Conservation abandonment is a policy blind spot www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Pienkowski et al. argue that too little attention has been paid to ensure that conservation initiatives persist, and that this blind spot threatens progress towards global environmental goals.
Conservation abandonment is a policy blind spot www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Pienkowski et al. argue that too little attention has been paid to ensure that conservation initiatives persist, and that this blind spot threatens progress towards global environmental goals.
Conservation abandonment is a policy blind spot - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Amidst the collective push to establish nature conservation initiatives, little attention has been paid to ensuring that they persist over time. The abandonment of conservation commitments is a blind ...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
New Comment 👇
Conservation abandonment is a policy blind spot www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Pienkowski et al. argue that too little attention has been paid to ensure that conservation initiatives persist, and that this blind spot threatens progress towards global environmental goals.
Conservation abandonment is a policy blind spot www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Pienkowski et al. argue that too little attention has been paid to ensure that conservation initiatives persist, and that this blind spot threatens progress towards global environmental goals.
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Corals, Coasts and One Health
Corals, Coasts and One Health is focused on addressing the urgent challenges facing coral reefs and connected coastal ecosystems. The conference program will bridge scales and disciplines, linking mic...
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Corals, Coasts and One Health
Corals, Coasts and One Health is focused on addressing the urgent challenges facing coral reefs and connected coastal ecosystems. The conference program will bridge scales and disciplines, linking mic...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Evo. characterization #antiviral #SAMD9/9L across #kingdoms🚶♀️🦍🦠🧫🖥️: ancient #convergence + #adaptations @natecoevo.nature.com
Led by amazing Alexandre Legrand +major contributions by Rémi Demeure & Amandine Chantharath @ciri-lyon.bsky.social 1/n
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Evo. characterization #antiviral #SAMD9/9L across #kingdoms🚶♀️🦍🦠🧫🖥️: ancient #convergence + #adaptations @natecoevo.nature.com
Led by amazing Alexandre Legrand +major contributions by Rémi Demeure & Amandine Chantharath @ciri-lyon.bsky.social 1/n
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Evolutionary characterization of antiviral SAMD9/9L across kingdoms supports ancient convergence and lineage-specific adaptations - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A search for analogues of the human SAMD9/9L antiviral genes identifies convergent evolution of this gene family in the bacterial and animal kingdoms, with species-specific and recent genomic signatur...
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November 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
📖Latest from the lab:
Evo. characterization #antiviral #SAMD9/9L across #kingdoms🚶♀️🦍🦠🧫🖥️: ancient #convergence + #adaptations @natecoevo.nature.com
Led by amazing Alexandre Legrand +major contributions by Rémi Demeure & Amandine Chantharath @ciri-lyon.bsky.social 1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Evo. characterization #antiviral #SAMD9/9L across #kingdoms🚶♀️🦍🦠🧫🖥️: ancient #convergence + #adaptations @natecoevo.nature.com
Led by amazing Alexandre Legrand +major contributions by Rémi Demeure & Amandine Chantharath @ciri-lyon.bsky.social 1/n
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New Comment 👇
Conservation abandonment is a policy blind spot www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Pienkowski et al. argue that too little attention has been paid to ensure that conservation initiatives persist, and that this blind spot threatens progress towards global environmental goals.
Conservation abandonment is a policy blind spot www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Pienkowski et al. argue that too little attention has been paid to ensure that conservation initiatives persist, and that this blind spot threatens progress towards global environmental goals.
Conservation abandonment is a policy blind spot - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Amidst the collective push to establish nature conservation initiatives, little attention has been paid to ensuring that they persist over time. The abandonment of conservation commitments is a blind ...
www.nature.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
New Comment 👇
Conservation abandonment is a policy blind spot www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Pienkowski et al. argue that too little attention has been paid to ensure that conservation initiatives persist, and that this blind spot threatens progress towards global environmental goals.
Conservation abandonment is a policy blind spot www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Pienkowski et al. argue that too little attention has been paid to ensure that conservation initiatives persist, and that this blind spot threatens progress towards global environmental goals.
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Spotlight on our AI policies: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our latest editorial clarifies some of our editorial policies on the use of generative AI, and offers some guidance for authors and reviewers.
Our latest editorial clarifies some of our editorial policies on the use of generative AI, and offers some guidance for authors and reviewers.
November 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Spotlight on our AI policies: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our latest editorial clarifies some of our editorial policies on the use of generative AI, and offers some guidance for authors and reviewers.
Our latest editorial clarifies some of our editorial policies on the use of generative AI, and offers some guidance for authors and reviewers.
Spotlight on our AI policies: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our latest editorial clarifies some of our editorial policies on the use of generative AI, and offers some guidance for authors and reviewers.
Our latest editorial clarifies some of our editorial policies on the use of generative AI, and offers some guidance for authors and reviewers.
November 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Spotlight on our AI policies: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our latest editorial clarifies some of our editorial policies on the use of generative AI, and offers some guidance for authors and reviewers.
Our latest editorial clarifies some of our editorial policies on the use of generative AI, and offers some guidance for authors and reviewers.
Using reciprocal transplants of white clover in urban and rural environments, this study shows divergent selection on an antiherbivore chemical with fitness consequences for the plant in both environments 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Effects of urbanization on local adaptation and eco-evolutionary feedbacks in white clover - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Evidence of adaptation to the urban environment remains limited. Using reciprocal transplants of white clover in urban and rural environments, this study shows divergent selection on an antiherbivore ...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Using reciprocal transplants of white clover in urban and rural environments, this study shows divergent selection on an antiherbivore chemical with fitness consequences for the plant in both environments 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A new fossil species of rhinocerotid from the Canadian Arctic suggests that the North Atlantic Land Bridge, which facilitated cross-Atlantic dispersal of mammals during the Eocene, persisted into the Oligocene and Miocene 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Mid-Cenozoic rhinocerotid dispersal via the North Atlantic - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A new fossil species of rhinocerotid from the Canadian Arctic suggests that the North Atlantic Land Bridge, which facilitated cross-Atlantic dispersal of mammals during the Eocene, persisted into the ...
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November 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
A new fossil species of rhinocerotid from the Canadian Arctic suggests that the North Atlantic Land Bridge, which facilitated cross-Atlantic dispersal of mammals during the Eocene, persisted into the Oligocene and Miocene 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Human biomass movement exceeds the biomass movement of all land animals combined 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Rosenberg et al show that land animal biomass movement is around 40 times smaller than all human biomass movement, with marine animal movement of biomass having halved since 1850
Rosenberg et al show that land animal biomass movement is around 40 times smaller than all human biomass movement, with marine animal movement of biomass having halved since 1850
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Human biomass movement exceeds the biomass movement of all land animals combined 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Rosenberg et al show that land animal biomass movement is around 40 times smaller than all human biomass movement, with marine animal movement of biomass having halved since 1850
Rosenberg et al show that land animal biomass movement is around 40 times smaller than all human biomass movement, with marine animal movement of biomass having halved since 1850
Read the accompanying News & Views commentary from Jennifer Brisson 👇🧪🦋 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Read the accompanying News & Views commentary from Jennifer Brisson 👇🧪🦋 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Tissue-specific transcriptomics, comparative genomics and genome editing identify a taxon-specific promoter of a Hox gene that controls eyespot size plasticity and probably contributed to wing eyespot diversity in satyrid butterflies 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A novel Hox gene promoter fuels the evolution of adaptive phenotypic plasticity in wing eyespots of satyrid butterflies - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Many satyrid butterflies show seasonal variation in wing eyespot size in response to temperature. Tissue-specific transcriptomics, comparative genomics and genome editing identify a taxon-specific pro...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Tissue-specific transcriptomics, comparative genomics and genome editing identify a taxon-specific promoter of a Hox gene that controls eyespot size plasticity and probably contributed to wing eyespot diversity in satyrid butterflies 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Out today in @natecoevo.nature.com 'Conservation abandonment is a policy blind spot'. Co-led by me and @tom-pienkowski.bsky.social as part of @catalyzconserv.bsky.social at @ic-cep.bsky.social & @imperialsci.bsky.social
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Conservation abandonment is a policy blind spot - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Amidst the collective push to establish nature conservation initiatives, little attention has been paid to ensuring that they persist over time. The abandonment of conservation commitments is a blind ...
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November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Out today in @natecoevo.nature.com 'Conservation abandonment is a policy blind spot'. Co-led by me and @tom-pienkowski.bsky.social as part of @catalyzconserv.bsky.social at @ic-cep.bsky.social & @imperialsci.bsky.social
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Our November Issue is now live: www.nature.com/natecolevol/...
Featuring research on 🧪
🦆Threats to migratory shorebirds
🌍Phosphorus constraints on global photosynthesis
🦠Evolution of the meerkat MHC
Cover shows a larva of an emperor moth, from Li et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Featuring research on 🧪
🦆Threats to migratory shorebirds
🌍Phosphorus constraints on global photosynthesis
🦠Evolution of the meerkat MHC
Cover shows a larva of an emperor moth, from Li et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Our November Issue is now live: www.nature.com/natecolevol/...
Featuring research on 🧪
🦆Threats to migratory shorebirds
🌍Phosphorus constraints on global photosynthesis
🦠Evolution of the meerkat MHC
Cover shows a larva of an emperor moth, from Li et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Featuring research on 🧪
🦆Threats to migratory shorebirds
🌍Phosphorus constraints on global photosynthesis
🦠Evolution of the meerkat MHC
Cover shows a larva of an emperor moth, from Li et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our November Issue is now live: www.nature.com/natecolevol/...
Featuring research on 🧪
🦆Threats to migratory shorebirds
🌍Phosphorus constraints on global photosynthesis
🦠Evolution of the meerkat MHC
Cover shows a larva of an emperor moth, from Li et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Featuring research on 🧪
🦆Threats to migratory shorebirds
🌍Phosphorus constraints on global photosynthesis
🦠Evolution of the meerkat MHC
Cover shows a larva of an emperor moth, from Li et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Our November Issue is now live: www.nature.com/natecolevol/...
Featuring research on 🧪
🦆Threats to migratory shorebirds
🌍Phosphorus constraints on global photosynthesis
🦠Evolution of the meerkat MHC
Cover shows a larva of an emperor moth, from Li et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Featuring research on 🧪
🦆Threats to migratory shorebirds
🌍Phosphorus constraints on global photosynthesis
🦠Evolution of the meerkat MHC
Cover shows a larva of an emperor moth, from Li et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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I reviewed The Tree of Life by @maxjtelford.bsky.social for @natecoevo.nature.com 🌳
You can access my review for free here: rdcu.be/eOcYY
You can access my review for free here: rdcu.be/eOcYY
November 6, 2025 at 8:05 AM
I reviewed The Tree of Life by @maxjtelford.bsky.social for @natecoevo.nature.com 🌳
You can access my review for free here: rdcu.be/eOcYY
You can access my review for free here: rdcu.be/eOcYY
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Nice, intelligent review of my book "The Tree of Life" in Nature Ecology and Evolution by @bethanyjallen.bsky.social.
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Out in USA next Tuesday!
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Out in USA next Tuesday!
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A beginner’s guide to tree thinking - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Nature Ecology & Evolution - A beginner’s guide to tree thinking
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November 5, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Nice, intelligent review of my book "The Tree of Life" in Nature Ecology and Evolution by @bethanyjallen.bsky.social.
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www.amazon.co.uk/Tree-Life-So...
Out in USA next Tuesday!
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Out in USA next Tuesday!
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Ecology faces an accumulation of models but not an accumulation of confidence. Our new paper w/ Jonathan Levine www.nature.com/articles/s41... in @natecoevo.nature.com introduces a rigorous test rooted in queueing theory to falsify inadequate models and build confidence in useful ones.
Rigorous validation of ecological models against empirical time series - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Validating theoretical models against empirical data presents challenges. Here the authors present an assumption-light method to validate ecological models against time series data, along with a dedic...
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October 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Ecology faces an accumulation of models but not an accumulation of confidence. Our new paper w/ Jonathan Levine www.nature.com/articles/s41... in @natecoevo.nature.com introduces a rigorous test rooted in queueing theory to falsify inadequate models and build confidence in useful ones.
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Human biomass movement may be up to 40 times greater than that of all land animals combined, says research in @natecoevo.nature.com. An accompanying @natcomms.nature.com paper finds wild mammal biomass has more than halved since 1850: spklr.io/63325Bzu27 & spklr.io/63327Bzu2h
Human biomass movement exceeds the biomass movement of all land animals combined - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Quantifying the global estimated movement of biomass on Earth, the authors show that land animal biomass movement is around 40 times smaller than all human biomass movement, with marine animal movement of biomass having halved since 1850.
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October 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Human biomass movement may be up to 40 times greater than that of all land animals combined, says research in @natecoevo.nature.com. An accompanying @natcomms.nature.com paper finds wild mammal biomass has more than halved since 1850: spklr.io/63325Bzu27 & spklr.io/63327Bzu2h
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My main PhD work @monteirolab.bsky.social is now in @natecoevo.nature.com! We found a Hox gene promoter that helps butterflies🦋adjust their wing eyespots in response to seasonal temperatures🍃🍂, shedding light on the evolutionary origin of phenotypic plasticity. 1/9 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
My main PhD work @monteirolab.bsky.social is now in @natecoevo.nature.com! We found a Hox gene promoter that helps butterflies🦋adjust their wing eyespots in response to seasonal temperatures🍃🍂, shedding light on the evolutionary origin of phenotypic plasticity. 1/9 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Phylogenetic and biochemical analyses show a diversity of components of the DNA replication machinery in different Asgard archaea that contributed to eukaryotic DNA replication machinery. 🧪
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Serial innovations by Asgard archaea shaped the DNA replication machinery of the early eukaryotic ancestor - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Phylogenetic and biochemical analyses show a diversity of components of the DNA replication machinery in different Asgard archaea that contributed to the eukaryotic DNA replication machinery.
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October 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Phylogenetic and biochemical analyses show a diversity of components of the DNA replication machinery in different Asgard archaea that contributed to eukaryotic DNA replication machinery. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Read the accompanying News & Views commentary from Tiago Simões 👇🧪
Diversification dynamics at scale www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Free to read: rdcu.be/eL22a
Diversification dynamics at scale www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Free to read: rdcu.be/eL22a
October 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Read the accompanying News & Views commentary from Tiago Simões 👇🧪
Diversification dynamics at scale www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Free to read: rdcu.be/eL22a
Diversification dynamics at scale www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Free to read: rdcu.be/eL22a
Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades 🧪
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Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The interplay between speciation and extinction rates shapes clade diversity dynamics. Using a novel phylogenetic model that includes living and fossil lineages, the authors estimate speciation and ex...
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October 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades 🧪
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The authors report a new species of theropod dinosaur from the Triassic Period of Argentina. Despite being one of the earliest theropods, Anteavis crurilongus has derived features more in line with Neotheropoda.
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A Carnian theropod with unexpectedly derived features during the first dinosaur radiation - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The authors report a new species of theropod dinosaur from the Triassic Period of Argentina. Despite being one of the earliest theropods, Anteavis crurilongus has derived features more in line with Ne...
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October 20, 2025 at 11:18 AM
The authors report a new species of theropod dinosaur from the Triassic Period of Argentina. Despite being one of the earliest theropods, Anteavis crurilongus has derived features more in line with Neotheropoda.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The authors report a new species of theropod dinosaur from the Triassic Period of Argentina. Despite being one of the earliest theropods, Anteavis crurilongus has derived features more in line with Neotheropoda.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A Carnian theropod with unexpectedly derived features during the first dinosaur radiation - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The authors report a new species of theropod dinosaur from the Triassic Period of Argentina. Despite being one of the earliest theropods, Anteavis crurilongus has derived features more in line with Ne...
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October 20, 2025 at 11:18 AM
The authors report a new species of theropod dinosaur from the Triassic Period of Argentina. Despite being one of the earliest theropods, Anteavis crurilongus has derived features more in line with Neotheropoda.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...