Evolutionary biologist. Phenotypic noise < bird migration genomics Tübingen < Plön < Kiel < Sapporo < Tokyo https://junishigohoka.github.io/
academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
The life history of recessive deleterious alleles as seen through the eyes of a honey bee (Apis mellifera)Abstract. Deleterious mutations arise continually in natural populations, yet their full life histories—from origin to elimination—are rarely observed direacademic.oup.comwww.nature.com/articles/s41...
Theoretical morphospace reveals mixed optimisation of the avian wing planform for flight style - Nature CommunicationsHere, the authors examine bird wing planform shape and functional performance using theoretical morphospace and phylomorphospace. They find that, in a sample of 1138 extant bird taxa, planform shape i...www.nature.comNew paper out in Phil. Trans. B! We set out to understand how seasonal migration evolves by combining a common garden experiment and scATAC-seq of the hypothalamus in ancestral migratory and derived resident populations of the Eurasian blackcap. 1/n
Differential epigenetic regulation underlies evolutionary transition of seasonal migrationAbstract. Seasonal migratory animals can evolve residency through adaptation. The threshold model of quantitative genetics predicts that residency evolvesdoi.orgwww.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
CD4+ T cells reactive to Epstein-Barr virus late lytic antigens are enriched in individuals with multiple sclerosisCD4+ T cells in MS preferentially recognize EBV viral particles rather than latent antigens, and responses are reduced by B cell–targeting therapies.www.science.org#SMBE2026 I will talk about **evolutionary roles of non-genetic variation**. If you care about expression noise, developmental instability, microenv. variance, or selection experiments (or if you don't believe in genetic determinism), come join me in S20 "mapping fitness landscapes" (17:30, Pjerrot)
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution#SMBE2026 S20: Mapping fitness landscapes with mechanistic models, machine learning and experiments 🗓️ Wed Jul 1, 3:50pm 🔗 smbe2026.org/programme
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Distinct genetic architecture in the tails of complex traits - NatureGenome-wide analyses in multiancestry and European cohorts show that in complex traits, rare alleles have disproportionately large effects at the tails of the phenotypic spectrum compared with common ...www.nature.comPaper alert!🧬🐦💻 Divergent selection is the textbook explanation for narrow inversion clines. Our blackcap inversion cline doesn't fit: it is wide, and the inversion is always the rarer arrangement. We show that negative frequency-dependent selection shifting between populations underlies this!
Shifting Balancing Selection Underlies an Inversion Cline in Eurasian BlackcapWe investigated what factor contributes to a cline of a chromosomal inversion of the Eurasian blackcap, which differs from typical inversion clines maintained by divergent selection. Using a simulati...onlinelibrary.wiley.comHoming pigeon navigation relies on superparamagnetic macrophages under overcast conditions | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Homing pigeon navigation relies on superparamagnetic macrophages under overcast conditionsBirds use a variety of navigational strategies, including the geomagnetic field, especially when other cues are not available, such as under overcast or nocturnal conditions. Magnetite particles in th...www.science.orgwww.nature.com/articles/s41...
Specific expansion of motor cortical projections in a singing mouse - NatureHigh-throughput barcoded neuroanatomy of two closely related rodent species with divergent vocalizations reveals differences in long-range projection motifs in the brain that may s...www.nature.com
