Monique Van Dorssen
PhD student at Monash University. I use genomics to look into climate adaptation and species divergence in coastal environments. Currently working on marine tubeworms 🪱
- Reposted by Monique Van DorssenEmily Belcher and co-authors show that embryos achieve robustness by tightly coordinating the relative timing of embryonic events, offering clues to how embryos may withstand contemporary climate change in marine systems. doi.org/10.1098/rsob...
- Reposted by Monique Van DorssenWas Darwin wrong? Hermaphrodites found to be more energy efficient than animals with two sexes monash.edu/science/news...
- Reposted by Monique Van DorssenDarwin speculated that it was energetically costly to be an hermaphrodite. He thought that might explain why they were relatively rare in animals. Our paper out today tested this conjecture for the first time. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
- Hi everyone, super excited to share the first paper from my PhD work, which the AGA said was cool!
