Claire Mérot
CNRS Researcher - France - Europe
Evolutionary Biology - Genomics - Ecology
- Reposted by Claire MérotCALL FOR PAPERS 📣 Special Issue: #GenomeArchitecture and #Evolution, organised by @eseb.bsky.social STN "STRiVE": Find out more here: tinyurl.com/2uza525c @ruifaria.bsky.social @kaybiodiversity.bsky.social @clairemerot.bsky.social @petrnguyen.bsky.social @aruizherrera.bsky.social
- Reposted by Claire MérotResponsible publication of your research! To help you do this @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social and coauthors have put together a handy database of academia-friendly journals, DAFNEE. You can read about it in their article recently published in @jevbio.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
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- Reposted by Claire MérotA new preprint from the lab, with postdoc @deboraycb.bsky.social and collaborators @aidaandres.bsky.social and Tim Connallon: “Characterising the detectable and invisible fractions of genomic loci under balancing selection” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Claire Mérot(1/2) The preprint of our perspective on genetic estimates of relatedness in animal populations is out! Big Congratulations to Annika! doi.org/10.32942/X28... A systematic review of 2,861 articles shows that, even in 2025, 75% of such studies use microsatellites. And most use only a few! #PopGen
- Reposted by Claire MérotMeiotic drive has long been considered as a genetic curiosity. Genomic "footprints" suggest otherwise. Check out our new review doi.org/10.1093/molb..., a cross-taxa synthesis arguing that recurrent drive is a pervasive and underappreciated force in genome evolution.
- Reposted by Claire Mérot'Ancient stickleback genomes reveal the early stages of parallel adaptation' - now published online in Evolution @journal-evo.bsky.social
- Ancient stickleback genomes reveal the chronology of parallel adaptation biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- We hope this little guide and review of the recent literature on SVs will be useful for the community in #ecology #evolution #genomics #PopGen. Great lead by Kat!!
- New review! Theory & a practical guide to structural variants in popgen🧬 Many thanks to my co-authors: @rebekahoomen.bsky.social @annatigano.bsky.social @marenwellenreuther.bsky.social @janawold.bsky.social @dlfield.bsky.social @clairemerot.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- What are the properties of structural variants and how could this matter for evolutionary processes?
- What data do I need? How do I navigate from the sequencing data to analysis?
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View full threadAnd you can check the supplementary for a huge table making a (non exhaustive) overview of SV papers in evolutionary genomics from 2020 to 2025. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Claire Mérot#ERGAReads | On the path to reference genomes for all biodiversity: laboratory protocols & lessons learned from processing over 2,000 species in the Sanger Tree of Life 🔗 academic.oup.com/gigascience/... @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @ebpgenome.bsky.social
- Reposted by Claire MérotHaller, Ralph & Messer present SLiM 5, a major extension of the SLiM simulation framework for simulating multiple chromosomes, enabling a heightened level of realism for full-genome simulations. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf313 #evobio #molbio #compbio
- Reposted by Claire MérotJoin us in Brittany? One week left to apply for this postdoc position deciphering the mysteries of inbreeding depression...
- POSTDOC recruitment! We’re looking for a post-doc to join us to work on the (epi)genetic basis of inbreeding depression as part of the ANR-funded project FRIDA macrostomum.wordpress.com/the-genetic-... Please share!
- Reposted by Claire MérotNew review from @gokcumenlab.bsky.social led by Petar Pajic on VNTRs. If you’re interested in VNTRs, this is a very nice synthesis. academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
- Reposted by Claire MérotHybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... ), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants
- Reposted by Claire Mérot🚨 We are hiring! 🧬 PhD Position – Genomic Architecture & Evolution Join our team at UAB (Barcelona) in an international project 🔬 4-year FPI contract 🎓 Biology/Genetics background + Master’s + English 📅 Apply by Sept 30, 2025 📧 aurora.ruizherrera@uab.cat 🔗 grupsderecerca.uab.cat/evolgenom
- Reposted by Claire MérotA new article of the team published in @heredityjournal.bsky.social #PopGen #MarEvol Congratulations to Hedvig for her brilliant work on this project. Atlantification is dead, long live genetic atlantification! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Claire MérotMy lil' baby turns 3.0 today! Most notable features: - autodetection of linked-read types (and not linked-read WGS too!) - more debuggin' and troubleshootin' options #bioinformatics #genomics #linkedreads
- Reposted by Claire MérotFor those interested: 🚀 BayPass v3.1 released! 🔹 Improved MCMC adaptive phase 🔹 Computation reduced >6X with default (recommended) options, while keeping similar accuracy 🔹 Plus other minor edits 📖 Details in the manual / changelog 🔗 Repo: forge.inrae.fr/mathieu.gaut...
- Useful warning on pangenomes by Resco Hogers... Now your application to pick which flavour of pangenome to need
- Join us today and tomorrow in room 117 #ESEB2025, starting with Dr Neda Barghi at 11am about adaptive architecture of complex traits in Drosophila. And the poster session today at 5pm. 😊
- A few days left to send your abstract to #eseb2025 ! If you are interested any facet of genomic architecture and how it is is involved in the evolution of biodiversity, please consider our symposium. #architecture #biodiversity #genomics #evolution #SV
- Reposted by Claire MérotThis week, the capital of Evolution is Barcelona! Over 1900 evolutionary biologists are gathering for the biennial meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, coorganised with its Spanish sister #ESEB2025. Over 540 of us are on Bluesky! You can use these starter packs to connect: 1/n
- Reposted by Claire MérotJoin the TIBBE team at #ESEB2025 on Monday in room 115 for S17 *The evolution of behavioural diversity: from ecology to genes and neural systems* - lots of great talks, and more excellent posters throughout the evening sessions! 🧠
- Reposted by Claire MérotInterested in host-associated microbiomes? Attending @eseb2025.bsky.social? Then come check out Symposium S07 on Monday August 18th and hear all about how microbiomes contribute to adaptation. Gut microbiomes, climate change, thermal physiology, behaviour, invasion biology, blood-feeding, and more!
- Reposted by Claire Mérot🎤 Symposium: Evolution in Small Populations I’ll be speaking on Evolutionary legacies of population collapse 🗓 Thursday, 11:00–13:15, Room 115 Looking forward to this #ESEB2025 week! @hologenomics.bsky.social
- Reposted by Claire MérotSo excited to be in Barcelona for #eseb2025! If you’re interested in 3D genome evolution, gene regulation, and the evolution of cephalopod novel traits, come to my talk on Tuesday at 11.30 in room 117 🐙🦑🧬
- On my way to @eseb2025.bsky.social ! 🌞 Please join us for symposium 47 about the interplay of genetic architecture and the evolution of biodiversity in room 117 on Tuesday. I'm very much looking forward to seeing so many cool talks and posters, and catch up with some of you 😊
- And talking about structural variants, inversions, haploblocks and flies in symposium 38 - at the same time 🙄 12am Tuesday - in room 118.
- Reposted by Claire MérotA reminder too that we have an open Junior Professorship position at the ECOBIO lab in Rennes, so do reach out if you might be interested in applying for that, I'd be happy to chat www.univ-rennes.fr/sites/www.un...
- Reposted by Claire MérotRetrouvez les biologistes Marc-André Selosse @isyeb.mnhn.fr & Audrey Dussutour @cnrs.fr Univ.Toulouse, dans un podcast @sciencecqfd.bsky.social sur @franceculture.fr , diffusé le 29/04/2025. Les champignons sont partout : de la confiture aux réacteurs de Tchernobyl.....
- Reposted by Claire MérotJust three more days to apply to this post-doc position (Deadline 8 May 2025). Not only is the subject matter stunning 🤯 but, you know, life in Montpellier is great too 😎. Haplotype-Resolved Assembly and Structural Variation of Polyploid Genomes in Transmissible Cancers of the Blue Mussel
- #PostDoc in #Montpellier on mussel transmissible cancers #TransCan These weird cancers have undergone genome doublings and aneuploidisation You will play with PacBio and Nanopore data Join the #HyperCan team in a joyfull environment. #MarEvol #PopGen #MusselsAreCool euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/333894
- Reposted by Claire MérotIt is with joy and exhaustion I'd like to announce the release of Harpy v2 🎆. What's different? Uh, almost everything. The changelog is so long that even I don't want to read it. BUT. IT WORKS WITH WGS DATA. AND MOST LINKED READ TECH. it just works 🙂 github.com/pdimens/harpy
- 10 more days to send your abstract to ESEB 2025 in Barcelona @eseb.bsky.social (deadline 05/05/2025).
- A few days left to send your abstract to #eseb2025 ! If you are interested any facet of genomic architecture and how it is is involved in the evolution of biodiversity, please consider our symposium. #architecture #biodiversity #genomics #evolution #SV
- Reposted by Claire MérotAbstracts for @eseb2025.bsky.social due next week! Milk, ejaculates, skin secretions, regurgitate, microbes ...our symposium will have it all, with invited speakers @berasymbionts.bsky.social and @jennyperry.bsky.social ...and you? Organised w/ @joriskoene.bsky.social and @wolfnerlab.bsky.social
- Reposted by Claire MérotHarpy v2.0 is almost across the finish line, and I wrote a lil' post about what linked-read sequencing actually is and how we evaluate the data differently than standard short-read data. It's a quick and easy read (with pictures!), highly recommend 🤓 #PopGen pdimens.github.io/harpy/blog/l...
- A few days left to send your abstract to #eseb2025 ! If you are interested any facet of genomic architecture and how it is is involved in the evolution of biodiversity, please consider our symposium. #architecture #biodiversity #genomics #evolution #SV
- Reposted by Claire MérotNew preprint! We investigated the evolution of supergenes and mechanisms underlying distyly in Linum species that diverged ca 33 Mya. 1/8 bsky.app/profile/bior...
- Genomic studies in Linum shed light on the evolution of the distyly supergene and the molecular basis of convergent floral evolution biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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- Looking forward to this symposium, lots to learn and discuss about genome structure and evolution #SVs #ESEB2025 ( and thanks for the invitation)
- Organized by @aruizherrera.bsky.social and Thea Rogers with the wonderful speakers @clairemerot.bsky.social and Harris Lewin
- Thanks for the invitation! I learnt a lot about Clunio fascinating biological clocks and the genetics of it 🙂
- This week, the Clunios @clocksevolution.bsky.social had the pleasure of hosting @clairemerot.bsky.social and hear about her awesome research on the role of inversions in adaptive evolution! We explored the baltic sea and found wrackbeds full of seaweed flies. Thanks again for visiting us, Claire!
- How promising! Thanks
- Welp, the linked-read data simulator in Harpy will be moving to {drum roll}} Mimick! pdimens.github.io/mimick/#/ I'm quite grateful to David Bolognini for giving me stewardship over the XENIA module in VISOR (which is the basis for Mimick). It's *supercharged*!! #genetics #genomics #linkedreads
- Reposted by Claire MérotDo you want to make genetic maps from sperm/pollen/gametes? Now there is an easy way, based on Hi-C sequencing. Thanks to Richard Durbin and Ed Green for the idea and a group of co-authors including @mariontalbi.bsky.social and @danielbolnick.bsky.social for contributions.
- Reposted by Claire MérotNeural circuits that link genetic variation to #behavior: This study of mate choice behavior in Heliconius cydno #butterflies shows that alterations to the peripheral nervous system, driven by genetic & gene expression differences, can alter essential behaviors 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/4iHQDRd
- Reposted by Claire MérotCall for Papers! Special Issue: Functional and Adaptive Effects of Genomic Structural Variation in @heredityjournal.bsky.social 📅 Submission Deadline Extended: 1st April 2025 Guest Editors: @ellenleffler.bsky.social, @mydennis.bsky.social, Omer Gokcumen, and myself www.nature.com/collections/...
- Reposted by Claire MérotWe have a new paper out today, where, among other things, we find evidence that a locally adaptive chromosomal inversion likely trapped an even older inversion along its path to becoming the supergene it is today. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Claire MérotDynamics of a supergene. A study of the BC supergene in wing color morphs of the African monarch #butterfly by @rishidekayne.bsky.social &co reveals dynamic evolution of #supergene haplotypes, fueled by incomplete recombination suppression 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/3DiFhnL
- Reposted by Claire Mérot🦋 New paper out in @funecology.bsky.social! 🦋 Using the Orange-tip butterfly in the UK🦋, we test a key assumption of many species’ distribution models (SDMs): that climate effects on species’ distributions are equivalent over space🌍 versus time⏰ doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.70005 🧵👇
- Reposted by Claire MérotBut here's where it gets awesomer. You can set up a GH repo to automatically build your notebooks into a *nice* website (via JupyterBook). Your repository, your work, code, results, and narrative *as a website*. Automatically. Automagically. The sims project? pdimens.github.io/haplotagging...
- Reposted by Claire MérotIn this new Feature Review, Yukihide Tomari and colleagues examine repression mechanisms that silence transposons and discuss the dynamic coevolution of transposons and host defenses in animals. Read for FREE till April 11th: authors.elsevier.com/a/1keCScQbJF...
- Reposted by Claire MérotPhD thesis proposal in our lab: "Evolutionary history and conservation genomics of black honey bees" Supervision: Pierre Faux and I Location: GenPhySE, INRAE Toulouse, France More infos: thibaultleroyfr.github.io/pdf/Annonce_... (thanks in advance for your RT and for sharing with your students 😉)
- Reposted by Claire MérotConvergent floral scent loss following transition to hummingbird pollination in spiral gingers (Costus). I had so much fun on this project with @kathleenmkay.bsky.social and Santiago Ramirez and am thrilled to see it published now in @MolBioEvol! academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
- Reposted by Claire MérotDo you use Darwin Tree of Life (DToL) genomes for your work or grant applications? If so, can you please fill out this form? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We are gathering info on how DToL genomes are used. It will help us raise money to continue producing publicly available high-quality genomes.
