Anne Pringle and I kept hearing the claim "Schizophyllum commune has 23,000 sexes", so we examined what this means and if it's actually a helpful way of thinking of fungal mating types. The paper is finally out in PTPBio! journals.publishing.umich.edu/ptpbio/artic...

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New paper just dropped! Read on if you want to read about how traumatic insemination shapes the evolution of the bedbug seminal proteome, where we show rapidly evolving sperm proteins and an expansion of sperm leucylaminopeptidases. www.mcponline.org/article/S153... #Proteomics #Evolution #Bedbugs

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Did you know that not all mosquitoes need to take a blood meal to reproduce? Check out our paper to learn about how the evolution of blood-independent reproduction in Aedes albopictus has involved changes in larval nutrient sequestration and vitellogenesis! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Terrific article in @quantamagazine.org about polyploidy and featuring our snails, along with some amazing other scientists! ❤️🐌🧬 www.quantamagazine.org/genome-dupli... @johnlogsdon.bsky.social @chelseahiggins.bsky.social @kylemcelroy.bsky.social @peterdfields.bsky.social @jsharbro.bsky.social

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🧵 New paper out in Nature Communications! 🐜🦠 How can an ancient nutritional symbiosis persist for millions of years, yet still be lost without killing its host? In Cardiocondyla ants, the answer appears to be remarkable metabolic flexibility. Paper: doi.org/10.1038/s414... 1/6

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