Belated congratulations to Kathy Darragh for submitting her PhD thesis at the end of September AND submitting two manuscripts to journals in the same week. Well done!
Wings shaped by natural history
Well done to Gabby for publishing her first PhD paper in Evolution. By analysing over 3000 wings we have shown that altitude and gregarious behaviour influence wing shape across Heliconius species. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/evo.13865
Evo Devo of butterfly wings
Well done to Joe Hanly on publishing his PhD work in the journal EvoDevo. The paper includes a broad assessment of gene expression across three species of Heliconius, focusing on transcription factor expression. We identified Homothorax as a candidate gene that may act as an upstream regulator of optix.
Papers in PLoS Biology
We had two papers published in PLoS Biology this week, one led by Simon Martin and the other by Richard Merrill. Both represent many years of work! We also wrote a blog post about them and they were featured on the university website The work was funded by the ERC. The papers generated quite a […]