Kjetill S Jakobsen
Evolutionary biologist studying functional, comparative and populations diversity processes
- Due to complex evolutionary histories, hybridisations and polyploidizations - just to name some - pan genomes are crucial to plant research. American Journal of Botany bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Reposted by Kjetill S JakobsenHuge congratulations to everyone who made this milestone possible! 🎉🦋 Field teams out exploring 🥾🌿 and lab teams powering the sequencing 🧬 — every single contribution mattered. 🙌✨
- Reposted by Kjetill S Jakobsen🧬 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🧬 Kearly & Nelson discuss historical and modern approaches and their limitations for identifying and characterizing plant short open reading frame-encoded peptides, and how improved techniques are rapidly changing the field 🌱 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪
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- Reposted by Kjetill S JakobsenTeam fish - we need your help! We are trying to build a database of all the fish chromosome-scale genomes where sex chromosomes have been identified. Have you build one or some? Do you know someone who has? Can you post the link in the comments? Please spread the word and repost! Thank you!
- Reposted by Kjetill S Jakobsen@katharinasures.bsky.social @probstlab.bsky.social et al. analysed CRISPR-Cas systems of metagenome-assembled genomes from two subsurface environments, shedding new light on the diversity of CRISPR spacers in natural microbial communities. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf201 #genome #evolution #CRISPR
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- Reposted by Kjetill S Jakobsen🌍✨ Why genome sequence mega-diverse countries? A handful of countries hold >70% of Earth’s terrestrial biodiversity — packed with species found nowhere else. These places are evolution’s playground… and extinction’s front line. #Biodiversity 🌿 #GenomeSequencing 🧬 #Genomics 🔬 #ConservationGenomics 🌍
- Reposted by Kjetill S JakobsenAn early Triassic bone bed excavated at 78°N changes the story about how marine life recovered after the most cataclysmic extinction in Earth history ~252 million years ago. Learn more in this week's issue of Science: scim.ag/48bLsGI
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- The most original wild reindeer in Norway has been sequenced: Chromosome-level genome assembly of alpine reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus) url: academic.oup.com/jhered/artic...
- Reposted by Kjetill S Jakobsen#marineinvert folks, not many #bryozoa genomes, here’s a new one, a Norwegian Flustra foliacea www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Genome is "large" (at c. 900Mb). Lead by Helle Baalsrud (NMBU) and Ole Tørresen (UiO). @ebpgenome.bsky.social Norway @kjetillsj.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Kjetill S JakobsenVery excited about this work now out in @molecology! We test whether🐦with ⬆️dispersal propensity differ in the nº CpGs across the genome, with the hypothesis that⬆️CpGs allow for⬆️epigenetically-driven plasticity facilitating environmental coping onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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- Article alert: Maurstad, Hoff; Cerca et al. Reference genome bias in light of species-specific chromosomal reorganization and translocations. Now out in Genome Biol. Congrats to Sissel and the team😀 doi.org/10.1186/s130...
- Reposted by Kjetill S Jakobsen🧬 Not all DNA comes out easily! Some species lock their secrets behind tough shells, rigid walls, or tricky chemistry. Extracting high-quality DNA can mean cracking exoskeletons, dissolving cell walls, or working around inhibitory compounds — science meets detective work 🔬💥
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- Article alert! Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms, Structural Variants, and Short Tandem Repeats Capture Distinct Signals of Adaptive Divergence in the Atlantic Puffin url: academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
- Reposted by Kjetill S Jakobsen🧨 The Naturhistoriska riksmuseet has a position open for a Tenure-Track group Leader position (DDLS fellow). 17 M SEK start-up (1.6 million euros, which will account for your salary / 2 PhDs / 2 Postdocs / plenty of money for starting projects and sending peoeple to conferences). lnkd.in/d5jNr_Ti
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- Reposted by Kjetill S JakobsenIn a new Review article in GBE, @scientific-arlie.bsky.social et al delve into the growing field of phylogenetic genotype to phenotype mapping (PhyloG2P), discussing advances and future directions for using phylogenomic data to map traits to genomes 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf150 #genome #evolution
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- Reposted by Kjetill S JakobsenDo you like cichlids? Fossils? Fossil cichlids? Would you like to study them as part of a graduate degree at the University of Michigan, joining an NSF-funded project? Get in touch.
- Reposted by Kjetill S Jakobsen#Arctic #algae aren't immobile or entombed. They're not just surviving either—they're gliding into record books phys.org/news/2025-09... Ice gliding #diatoms establish record-low temperature limits for motility in a eukaryotic cell www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #protists #microbes #extremophiles
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- Reposted by Kjetill S JakobsenHybridization 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
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- Reposted by Kjetill S JakobsenParallel but distinct adaptive routes in the budding and fission yeasts after 10,000 generations of experimental evolution biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Reposted by Kjetill S JakobsenReally excited to share our latest paper led by @simonaube.bsky.social. Fascinating results examining whether regulatory mutations can lead to adaptation as fast as coding mutations do. #mevosky #evobio #evoSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Kjetill S JakobsenCool preprint! 🚨 Lanternfish lack MHC I and functional MHC II — yet still produce antibodies! 🧬🐟 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Reposted by Kjetill S JakobsenOur paper on the genetics of guppy color patterns has now been assigned an issue in NEE: doi.org/10.1038/s415... With this paper, we also publish all 14,100 guppy photos used in the study, including before and after alignment and ornament extraction: doi.org/10.20383/103...
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- Reposted by Kjetill S Jakobsen🔖Last review from the lab👇 'Male meiosis at the helm: shaping genomes and sex chromosomes in emerging vertebrate models' academic.oup.com/biolreprod/a...
- Reposted by Kjetill S JakobsenEarth BioGenome Project Frontiers Online Forum Deep Dive on September 18, 2025 (07:00 PT | 16:00 CEST), where we will discuss the article and chart next steps for the field. 📌 Register here: events.frontiersin.org/earth-biogen...
- Reposted by Kjetill S JakobsenA common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species go.nature.com/4mOb5T9
- Reposted by Kjetill S JakobsenYou may have missed this #ant poster at #ESEB2025, but be sure not to miss the article just published in #openacess in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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