Joseph Black Medal & Hird Prize PhD nominations - congrats to Hans and to Arne

Congratulations to two of the lab's recent PhD graduates, Hans Recknagel ("Environmental constraints and genetic basis for the evolution of viviparity") and Arne Jacobs ("The population genomic origins of ecological specialisation in salmonid fishes"), both (*both!*) of whom were nominated by their respective examining committees for the university's top honours - the thesis prize. This ranks them in the top 5% of theses examined at the University of Glasgow in the academic year. Fantastic work!

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NEW PAPER: Genomics of head and body shape parallelism in Arctic charr

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Published today as free open access in Molecular Ecology :  Genomic underpinnings of head and body shape in Arctic charr ecomorph pairs Sam Fenton, Arne Jacobs, Colin Bean, Colin Adams & Kathryn Elmer The appearance of repeated phenotypes across replicates in similar environments have been described as examples of parallel evolution. However, the genomic bases of these similar phenotypes is rarely elucidated and so whether the same genomic pathways are used to achieve these similar phenotypes across replicates is rarely known. Here we used the repeated divergence of benthivorous-planktivorous ecomorph pairs of Arctic charr to investigate the genomic underpinnings of head and body shape morphology across replicates. We found that only a small number of associated SNPs for each phenotype were shared across all four ecomorph pairs we investigated with selection on associated SNPs varying considerably across replicates. Overall, these results suggest that the genomic underpinnings ...
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