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A single gene can disrupt the sleep-wake cycle

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01-10-2021

Emi Nagoshi's team has identified a gene essential in the regulation of the sleep / wake cycles of Drosophila.

Swiss, Senegalese and French archaeologists launch a research project in Casamance

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29-09-2021

The Archeology and Population of Africa (APA) laboratory of the University of Geneva and partners have started a research project on food in Basse-Casamance, in southern Senegal, under the direction of Dr Anne Mayor.

How elephants use their trunk

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31-08-2021

Milinkovitch's lab quantitative analysis of the biomechanical and functional morphology of the elephant trunk is published today in Current Biology.

How the lizard gets its pattern

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26-04-2021

LANE lab's 3D numerical simulations of the ocellated lizard skin colour patterning are published today in Nature Communications.

Scaled, armoured or naked: how does the skin of fish evolve?

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24-03-2021

Montoya's lab has traced the family tree of ray-finned fish in order to reconstruct the evolution of the protective structures of their skin.

The snake in the white suit

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24-02-2021

Michel Milinkovitch-Tzika Lab sequences the Texas Rat Snake genome and suggest that a regulatory mutation of MITF causes the leucistic phenotype.

The wings of a “genetic bird” protect us against viruses

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14-01-2021

Alicia Sanchez-Mazas team has demonstrated that every population can protect itself against a broad range of viruses thanks to the two most diverse HLA immune genes in humans.

African trade routes sketched out by mediaeval beads

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04-12-2020

An analysis of archaeological glass beads discovered in sub-Saharan West Africa brings to light the full extent of the region’s international trade routes between the 7th and 13th centuries.

Snakes reveal the origin of skin colours

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06-10-2020

A mutation of the lavender variant of corn snake allows the Milinkovitch lab to understand the mechanisms responsible for the extraordinary variety of skin colours in vertebrates.

Wildcats threatened by their domestic cousins

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29-09-2020

Wildcats in the Swiss Jura will undergo an irreversible genetic replacement by domestic cats if no preventive measures are taken.

Hoxb13 in mouse tail allometry

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31-08-2020

Jozsef Zakany will host a last seminar before his retirement on September 24 at 4 pm in the A300 audience (Sciences II).

National Geographic Readers: Animals That Change Color

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27-04-2020

Michel Milinkovitch served as the scientific advisor for the content of the issue ‘Animals That Change Colors’ of the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC KIDS magazine.

PhD School of Life Sciences

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24-03-2020

Call for applications to the PhD School of Life Sciences. Application deadline: Apr 15th, 2020

The secrets of the iridescent egg sac revealed

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20-02-2020

Milinkovitch Lab an international researchers identify that a 3D photonics structure in the egg-sac envelope of Hida salamanders causes visible iridescence is water and UV iridescence in air.

The elephant’s trunk will inspire a revolutionary robot

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19-12-2019

An international team, including UNIGE, will analyse the African elephant’s trunk, and its exceptional agility and versatility, to create a robot guided by touch.

Ivan Rodriguez and Alan Carleton just received an ERC Synergy Grant

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16-10-2019

The project aims at exploring the function and dysfunction of the claustrum, a poorly understood neural structure in the mamalian brain.

The Anthropology Unit makes the cover of "G3"

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02-08-2019

A study from Estella Poloni’s group: Did controlled use of fire impact the evolution of human genomic diversity ?

How the dragon got its frill

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27-06-2019

Michel Milinkovitch's team uncovers the developmental process generating the Chamydosaurus frill.

«Afrique: 300'000 ans de diversité humaine»

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14-06-2019

The geneticists and prehistorians of the Anthropology Unit of the University of Geneva tell you about human history on the African continent. An extraordinary exhibition not to be missed!

The evolution of snake skin nano-structures

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10-05-2019

The Milinkovitch Lab characterizes the complexity and diversity of surface nano-gratings in 353 species of snakes.

Spatially explicit paleogenomic simulations support cohabitation with limited admixture between Bronze Age Central European populations.

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09-10-2021

Rio J, Quilodrán CS, Currat M. Commun Biol 2021 Oct;4(1):1163. 10.1038/s42003-021-02670-5. 10.1038/s42003-021-02670-5.

Neurofibromin 1 in mushroom body neurons mediates circadian wake drive through activating cAMP-PKA signaling.

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03-10-2021

Machado Almeida P, Lago Solis B, Stickley L, Feidler A, Nagoshi E. Nat Commun 2021 Oct;12(1):5758. 10.1038/s41467-021-26031-2. 10.1038/s41467-021-26031-2. PMC8486785.

Elephants evolved strategies reducing the biomechanical complexity of their trunk.

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25-08-2021

Dagenais P, Hensman S, Haechler V, Milinkovitch MC. Curr Biol 2021 Aug;():. S0960-9822(21)01133-7. 10.1016/j.cub.2021.08.029.

Mesomelic dysplasias associated with the HOXD locus are caused by regulatory reallocations.

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20-08-2021

Bolt CC, Lopez-Delisle L, Mascrez B, Duboule D. Nat Commun 2021 08;12(1):5013. 10.1038/s41467-021-25330-y. 10.1038/s41467-021-25330-y.

Tissue hydraulics: Physics of lumen formation and interaction.

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03-08-2021

Torres-Sánchez A, Winter MK, Salbreux G. Cells Dev 2021 Jul;():203724. S2667-2901(21)00058-9. 10.1016/j.cdev.2021.203724.

Induction of a chromatin boundary in vivo upon insertion of a tad border.

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23-07-2021

Willemin A, Lopez-Delisle L, Bolt CC, Gadolini ML, Duboule D, Rodriguez-Carballo E. PLoS Genet 2021 Jul;17(7):e1009691. 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009691. PGENETICS-D-21-00201.

Alterations in Gene Expression of Renin-Angiotensin System Components and Related Proteins in Colorectal Cancer.

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22-07-2021

Mehranfard D, Perez G, Rodriguez A, Ladna JM, Neagra CT, Goldstein B, Carroll T, Tran A, Trivedi M, Speth RC. J Renin Angiotensin Aldosterone Syst 2021 ;2021():9987115. 10.1155/2021/9987115. PMC8277508.

Time-sequenced transcriptomes of developing distal mouse limb buds: A comparative tissue layer analysis.

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14-07-2021

Fernandez-Guerrero M, Zdral S, Castilla-Ibeas A, Lopez-Delisle L, Duboule D, Ros M. Dev Dyn 2021 Jul;():. 10.1002/dvdy.394.

Cellular, Metabolic, and Developmental Dimensions of Whole-Body Regeneration in .

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08-07-2021

Vogg MC, Buzgariu W, Suknovic NS, Galliot B. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol 2021 Jul;():. cshperspect.a040725. 10.1101/cshperspect.a040725.

Air temperature influences early Covid-19 outbreak as indicated by worldwide mortality.

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19-06-2021

Quilodrán CS, Currat M, Montoya-Burgos JI. Sci Total Environ 2021 Jun;792():148312. S0048-9697(21)03383-0. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148312. PMC8178938.

Processes that drive the population structuring of (Cyprinidontiformes, Anablepidae) in the La Plata Basin.

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19-06-2021

Briñoccoli YF, Jardim de Queiroz L, Bogan S, Paracampo A, Posadas PE, Somoza GM, Montoya-Burgos JI, Cardoso YP. Ecol Evol 2021 Jun;11(11):6119-6132. 10.1002/ece3.7427. ECE37427. PMC8207347.

From scales to armor: Scale losses and trunk bony plate gains in ray-finned fishes.

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18-06-2021

Lemopoulos A, Montoya-Burgos JI. Evol Lett 2021 Jun;5(3):240-250. 10.1002/evl3.219. EVL3219. PMC8190451.

Uncovering the Roles of Clocks and Neural Transmission in the Resilience of Circadian Network.

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15-06-2021

Jaumouillé E, Koch R, Nagoshi E. Front Physiol 2021 ;12():663339. 10.3389/fphys.2021.663339. PMC8188733.

Assessing the ecological quality status of the highly polluted Bagnoli area (Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy) using foraminiferal eDNA metabarcoding.

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08-06-2021

Cavaliere M, Barrenechea Angeles I, Montresor M, Bucci C, Brocani L, Balassi E, Margiotta F, Francescangeli F, Bouchet VMP, Pawlowski J, Frontalini F. Sci Total Environ 2021 May;790():147871. S0048-9697(21)02942-9. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147871.

Scientific and budgetary tradeoffs between morphological and molecular methods for deep-sea biodiversity assessment.

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22-05-2021

Le JT, Levin LA, Lejzerowicz F, Cordier T, Gooday AJ, Pawlowski J. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2021 May;():. 10.1002/ieam.4466.

HyRAD-X exome capture museomics unravels giant ground beetle evolution.

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15-05-2021

Toussaint EFA, Gauthier J, Bilat J, Gillett CPDT, Gough HM, Lundkvist H, Blanc M, Muñoz-Ramírez CP, Alvarez N. Genome Biol Evol 2021 May;():. 6275686. 10.1093/gbe/evab112.

Ultrafast pulse shaping modulates perceived visual brightness in living animals.

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30-04-2021

Gaulier G, Dietschi Q, Bhattacharyya S, Schmidt C, Montagnese M, Chauvet A, Hermelin S, Chiodini F, Bonacina L, Herrera PL, Rothlisberger U, Rodriguez I, Wolf JP. Sci Adv 2021 Apr;7(18):. 7/18/eabe1911. 10.1126/sciadv.abe1911.

Reaction-diffusion in a growing 3D domain of skin scales generates a discrete cellular automaton.

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25-04-2021

Fofonjka A, Milinkovitch MC. Nat Commun 2021 04;12(1):2433. 10.1038/s41467-021-22525-1. 10.1038/s41467-021-22525-1.

Identification of a micropeptide and multiple secondary cell genes that modulate male reproductive success.

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21-04-2021

Immarigeon C, Frei Y, Delbare SYN, Gligorov D, Machado Almeida P, Grey J, Fabbro L, Nagoshi E, Billeter JC, Wolfner MF, Karch F, Maeda RK. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021 Apr;118(15):. 2001897118. 10.1073/pnas.2001897118.

“To name things wrongly is to add to the misfortune of the world”, (e-Letter in response to: For better drugs, diversify clinical trials.

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14-04-2021

Grenet G, Gombault C, Duret L, Sanchez-Mazas A, Gueyffier F, Segurel L, Lega J-C. Science 05 Feb 2021: Vol. 371, Issue 6529, pp. 570-571 DOI: 10.1126/science.abe2565