Matt Webster
Evolution and population genetics
websterlab.net
- Why do queens bees live so much longer than workers? Apply for a postdoc position in my lab to figure it out! Please get in touch if you want to know more. link to job: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... lab website: www.websterlab.net
- Latest research from the lab where we mapped the sex-determining gene in the red mason bee. Surprisingly it turned out to be the same gene used by ants, suggesting an ancient origin >150 million years ago. Thanks to the many people involved!
- #Haplodiploid inheritance is found in all species of #Hymenoptera. @mwbstr.bsky.social &co map the #sex determining #gene of the red mason #bee to the ANTSR gene region, suggesting a shared, ancient origin of #SexDetermination in bees & ants >150 Mya ago @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/47COEtH
- I'm happy to share our new study where we mapped the sex-determining locus in the red mason bee. It maps to the ANTSR lncRNA discovered in ants, suggesting that this gene determines sex widely in Hymenoptera. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Fascinating work
- Finally out: Predicting adaptation to climate warming www.nature.com/articles/s41... We find that there are many genomic routes to heat-adaptation, but this can also make genomic data of limited value for prediction. A tour de force by @denovorego.bsky.social , with @stelkens.bsky.social.
- I enjoyed the first installment of MAYosis yesterday. Highly recommended seminar series for those interested in recombination and evolution! meiosis.cornell.edu/mayosis2025/...
- Great opportunity to become a PhD student in Urban Friberg's lab in Linköping Uni studying somatic mutations and ageing: liu.se/en/work-at-l...
- Our paper on recombination rate in termites is out! Our findings suggest that crossover rates are not universally high in social insects. We also find evidence for active PRDM9 and hotspots in an insect. genome.cshlp.org/content/earl...
