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#Doberman #DobermanPinscher #Dobermann #DCM #Purebreddog #Purebredcat #Outcrossing #Genetics #Reform #Petition
#Doberman #DobermanPinscher #Dobermann #DCM #Purebreddog #Purebredcat #Outcrossing #Genetics #Reform #Petition
October 1, 2026 at 1:59 AM
Very happy to see this study out! The transition from outcrossing to selfing involve convergent patterns of flower trait covariation academic.oup.com/aob/article/...
July 21, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Very happy to see this study out! The transition from outcrossing to selfing involve convergent patterns of flower trait covariation academic.oup.com/aob/article/...
Ruthie the pig was a kunekune. (My friends keep them, although I think theirs have some outcrossing with another heritage breed.) #BehindOurFlag
April 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Ruthie the pig was a kunekune. (My friends keep them, although I think theirs have some outcrossing with another heritage breed.) #BehindOurFlag
New Article: "Ginger genome reveals the SMPED1 gene causing sex-phase synchrony and outcrossing in a flowering plant" rdcu.be/eJPdX
SMPED1, located in a dichogamy-determining region in Alpinia species, controls the timing of sex-organ synchrony.
SMPED1, located in a dichogamy-determining region in Alpinia species, controls the timing of sex-organ synchrony.
October 7, 2025 at 11:07 AM
New Article: "Ginger genome reveals the SMPED1 gene causing sex-phase synchrony and outcrossing in a flowering plant" rdcu.be/eJPdX
SMPED1, located in a dichogamy-determining region in Alpinia species, controls the timing of sex-organ synchrony.
SMPED1, located in a dichogamy-determining region in Alpinia species, controls the timing of sex-organ synchrony.
Check out Science's first issue of 2025: https://scim.ag/4j1ZYob
January 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Check out Science's first issue of 2025: https://scim.ag/4j1ZYob
Whole-genome duplication increases genetic diversity and load in outcrossing Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.12.632621v1
January 15, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Whole-genome duplication increases genetic diversity and load in outcrossing Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.12.632621v1
📢 Viewpoint in New Phyt. on polyploid establishment!
Key take-homes🧵
1. In contrast to earlier hypotheses that pollinators can help new polyploids establish, we suggest that pollinators mainly prevent polyploid establishment because outcrossing increases the strength of minority cytotype exclusion.
Key take-homes🧵
1. In contrast to earlier hypotheses that pollinators can help new polyploids establish, we suggest that pollinators mainly prevent polyploid establishment because outcrossing increases the strength of minority cytotype exclusion.
February 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
📢 Viewpoint in New Phyt. on polyploid establishment!
Key take-homes🧵
1. In contrast to earlier hypotheses that pollinators can help new polyploids establish, we suggest that pollinators mainly prevent polyploid establishment because outcrossing increases the strength of minority cytotype exclusion.
Key take-homes🧵
1. In contrast to earlier hypotheses that pollinators can help new polyploids establish, we suggest that pollinators mainly prevent polyploid establishment because outcrossing increases the strength of minority cytotype exclusion.
Check out this paper by Shelley Sianta, myself, undergrad Amal Suri, @ybrandva, and Dave Moeller! Despite the notable absence of ANY early-generation hybrids in our dataset of 410 plants from selfing and outcrossing #clarkia sister taxa, we found substantial admixture. 1/4
Introgression despite minimal #hybridization: mating system modulates phenotypic associations with introgression in Clarkia
Shelley A. Sianta, et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience
Shelley A. Sianta, et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience
March 31, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Check out this paper by Shelley Sianta, myself, undergrad Amal Suri, @ybrandva, and Dave Moeller! Despite the notable absence of ANY early-generation hybrids in our dataset of 410 plants from selfing and outcrossing #clarkia sister taxa, we found substantial admixture. 1/4
It feels surreal to see my PhD research featured on the cover of Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... Incredibly proud of the work that went into this. And so grateful for the opportunities, resources, support and mentorship from co-authors and my whole scientific community that made it possible
January 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
It feels surreal to see my PhD research featured on the cover of Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... Incredibly proud of the work that went into this. And so grateful for the opportunities, resources, support and mentorship from co-authors and my whole scientific community that made it possible
Yep. It’s a real issue. Dobermans are one example of a breed that is in deep, deep shit due to incredibly pervasive heart issues, but the breed club remains very resistant to outcrossing.
April 10, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Yep. It’s a real issue. Dobermans are one example of a breed that is in deep, deep shit due to incredibly pervasive heart issues, but the breed club remains very resistant to outcrossing.
Fascinated by this amazing native legume, American hog peanut (Amphicarpa bracteata) and its bizarre reproductive strategy. It is an annual that makes both below-ground (cleistogamous/selfing) flowers and aboveground flowers that are either cleistogamous or chasmogamous (outcrossing). Amazing plants
November 25, 2024 at 5:41 PM
Fascinated by this amazing native legume, American hog peanut (Amphicarpa bracteata) and its bizarre reproductive strategy. It is an annual that makes both below-ground (cleistogamous/selfing) flowers and aboveground flowers that are either cleistogamous or chasmogamous (outcrossing). Amazing plants
#plantsci Random question for Arabidopsis people: has anyone compared the impact of selfing A.thaliana in labs over successive generations vs maintaining the same ecotype in wild environments (low level of outcrossing), on inbreeding depression? @plantevolution.bsky.social
June 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
#plantsci Random question for Arabidopsis people: has anyone compared the impact of selfing A.thaliana in labs over successive generations vs maintaining the same ecotype in wild environments (low level of outcrossing), on inbreeding depression? @plantevolution.bsky.social
A nice commentary by Contreras-Garrido & @vincentcastric.bsky.social on our & Liu, Wang et al's papers on the fascinating genetics & evolutionary turnover of wingnut tree mating systems
@currentbiology.bsky.social
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@currentbiology.bsky.social
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Evolution: Disassortative mating going nuts
Reciprocal timing of the maturity of male and female flowers on distinct plants is
a powerful outcrossing-enforcing mechanism. Two new studies reveal surprising diversity
of genetic systems controllin...
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November 4, 2025 at 9:16 PM
A nice commentary by Contreras-Garrido & @vincentcastric.bsky.social on our & Liu, Wang et al's papers on the fascinating genetics & evolutionary turnover of wingnut tree mating systems
@currentbiology.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biol...
@currentbiology.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Even just a little bit of outcrossing is capable of resetting the ratchet. Hill-Robertson Effect on the other hand...
July 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Even just a little bit of outcrossing is capable of resetting the ratchet. Hill-Robertson Effect on the other hand...
With @aconga.bsky.social we wrote a short Dispatch to highlight two awesome companion papers in @currentbiology.bsky.social by @jeffgroh.bsky.social, @gcbias.bsky.social and by Liu et al. on how the control of heterodichogamy is going nuts in the Juglandaceae :
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
November 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
With @aconga.bsky.social we wrote a short Dispatch to highlight two awesome companion papers in @currentbiology.bsky.social by @jeffgroh.bsky.social, @gcbias.bsky.social and by Liu et al. on how the control of heterodichogamy is going nuts in the Juglandaceae :
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
reading about dcm in dobermans is a straight up horror show. from an outsider pov it seems obvious that:
1. theyve hit a genetic wall that only outcrossing and loosening of breed standard could possibly fix
2. breeders will never do those things
3. all purebreeds will eventually hit this wall.
1. theyve hit a genetic wall that only outcrossing and loosening of breed standard could possibly fix
2. breeders will never do those things
3. all purebreeds will eventually hit this wall.
March 9, 2026 at 1:47 PM
reading about dcm in dobermans is a straight up horror show. from an outsider pov it seems obvious that:
1. theyve hit a genetic wall that only outcrossing and loosening of breed standard could possibly fix
2. breeders will never do those things
3. all purebreeds will eventually hit this wall.
1. theyve hit a genetic wall that only outcrossing and loosening of breed standard could possibly fix
2. breeders will never do those things
3. all purebreeds will eventually hit this wall.
Proud of work led by former MS student Tatyana Soto accepted at AJB. Can heterosis & inbreeding depression explain the maintenance of #outcrossing in a cleistogamous perennial? bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#evolbio #plantscience #botany
#evolbio #plantscience #botany
September 20, 2023 at 3:21 PM
Proud of work led by former MS student Tatyana Soto accepted at AJB. Can heterosis & inbreeding depression explain the maintenance of #outcrossing in a cleistogamous perennial? bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#evolbio #plantscience #botany
#evolbio #plantscience #botany
Yes. The plan, beginning with the current GMO trees, is to do extensive outcrossing to produce fertile, resistant trees.
November 21, 2023 at 4:11 AM
Yes. The plan, beginning with the current GMO trees, is to do extensive outcrossing to produce fertile, resistant trees.
G'mornin' Before I'm off to work for the day, here's one of my wife's favorites in the house #blooming today. #Mammillaria schumannii globosa. I really need to buy 2 more for outcrossing genetics. Have a good Monday ✌️
#bloomscroll #cactus #cactusflower #seedgrown #indoorcultivated
#bloomscroll #cactus #cactusflower #seedgrown #indoorcultivated
June 2, 2025 at 12:10 PM
G'mornin' Before I'm off to work for the day, here's one of my wife's favorites in the house #blooming today. #Mammillaria schumannii globosa. I really need to buy 2 more for outcrossing genetics. Have a good Monday ✌️
#bloomscroll #cactus #cactusflower #seedgrown #indoorcultivated
#bloomscroll #cactus #cactusflower #seedgrown #indoorcultivated
New paper showing clustering of the many traits across reproductive strategies of angiosperms. Lots of interesting discussions that gave raise to this piece. But only possible thanks to the hard work of Andrew Helmstetter, Sylvain Glémin, and Jos Käfer.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
An angiosperm‐wide perspective on reproductive strategies and floral traits
Flowering plants have many modes of sexual reproduction, notably varying from selfing to outcrossing, and from bisexual flowers to individuals with separate sexes (dioecy). These reproductive modes ...
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January 26, 2026 at 3:41 PM
New paper showing clustering of the many traits across reproductive strategies of angiosperms. Lots of interesting discussions that gave raise to this piece. But only possible thanks to the hard work of Andrew Helmstetter, Sylvain Glémin, and Jos Käfer.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Are you bored of the low natural genetic variability of Arabidopsis thaliana? Check out our new resource www.arabidopsislyrata.org, where we put together 1018 genomes of A. lyrata and 736 genomes of A. arenosa, mostly outcrossing species that have higher genetic variability compared to A. thaliana.⬇️
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March 9, 2026 at 9:14 AM
Are you bored of the low natural genetic variability of Arabidopsis thaliana? Check out our new resource www.arabidopsislyrata.org, where we put together 1018 genomes of A. lyrata and 736 genomes of A. arenosa, mostly outcrossing species that have higher genetic variability compared to A. thaliana.⬇️
Norway banned breeding Cavalier King Charles spaniels on the grounds that it was a violation of existing animal cruelty laws.
And Finland is undergoing a genetic rescue project with careful outcrossing.
And Finland is undergoing a genetic rescue project with careful outcrossing.
March 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Norway banned breeding Cavalier King Charles spaniels on the grounds that it was a violation of existing animal cruelty laws.
And Finland is undergoing a genetic rescue project with careful outcrossing.
And Finland is undergoing a genetic rescue project with careful outcrossing.
ok tbf there’s definitely some backchannel outcrossing stuff going on with Malinois and Dutch shepherds bred for police and military purposes, but it’s also done on the DL for a reason lol
August 6, 2024 at 11:00 PM
ok tbf there’s definitely some backchannel outcrossing stuff going on with Malinois and Dutch shepherds bred for police and military purposes, but it’s also done on the DL for a reason lol
Am I the only #Drosophila researcher who is just too lazy to make new labels and instead does things like that...?
#cellbio #devbio #science
#cellbio #devbio #science
June 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Am I the only #Drosophila researcher who is just too lazy to make new labels and instead does things like that...?
#cellbio #devbio #science
#cellbio #devbio #science