melbrien.bsky.social
Research Fellow at University of Helsinki ~ Evolution, genomics, lepidoptera, all things colour🦋 PI helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/colourful-insect-genomics
👤 Joined on 04 December 2023
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@melbrien.bsky.socialA great week at #ISBE2026 in Turin! 🇮🇹 EEI was well represented with @eselenius.bsky.social talking about sexual selection, @michalbartak.bsky.social presenting his first chapter on the effect of photoperiod of life-history and @theobrown.bsky.social discussing why butterflies fly slowly!
Show PostThe biggest work of my PhD was recently published in @commsbio.nature.com! We looked at the origin and maintenance of alternative winter colour morphs (white and brown) in European least weasels during their evolution. OA paper ➡️ doi.org/10.1038/s420... 1/6
Show PostHappy to spread the word that there is now an NCBI / RefSeq-annotated Heliconius melpomene (rosina) genome, thanks to efforts by Krista Pipho and the Wray lab at Duke. Please use it, share it, and let us know if there are issues. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/gen...
Show PostAfter a quite stressful morning (glitch in the camera, and I needed to be at uni earlier than planned to fix it), I am having a coffee now on the balcony. ☕☀️
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