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@IJMonod @CNRS #genetics #evolution #biology #drosophila #genedrive #biodiversity @AdiosCoronaFR - COVID origin: lab or zoonotic? Views my own. RT≠endorsement
Wonder about living diversity? The genes and mutations underlying Phenotypic Variation Evolution and Domestication in *all* Eukaryotes are compiled in @Gephebase gephebase.org - Check our white paper @biorxivpreprint biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #LociOfEvolution @evolvwing

"There was only a one-sided view and that the discussion was dominated by certain virologists... But the leading virologists, including my favorite virologist, never took a step back and said: Be careful! There is a second possibility. Let's all roll up our sleeves and conduct…
A good interview with Günter Theißen, professor and chair of genetics at the Friedrich Schiller University in Germany: "If you read and informed yourself, then you already knew in 2020 about the possibility of a laboratory origin." archive.ph/IjCRi
The European Drosophila Society @Fly_EDS has just launched a #prize to the best #PhD thesis using #Drosophila. 🏆🪰 Deadline is Feb 2025. Prize = €1000 & keynote presentation at the EDRC in Alicante @edrc2025! More info here: europeandrosophilasociety.org/eds-best-phd-t…
Le 12 décembre à Paris : une conférence grand public par notre ancienne étudiante en thèse @ManonMonier6 sur notre travail sur les colles de drosophile ⤵️

Our new @CurrentBiology paper provides a rare glimpse into a morphological novelty in Drosophila eugracilis In it, @gavinrrice and colleagues, infer and reproduce the likely initial steps of a novelty's formation sciencedirect.com/science/articl…