For anyone who is interested in looking at dispersal pattern at small spatio-temporal scale, please check our R package on estimating resistance to dispersal over a landscape using genetic data. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Tak coauthors new genetic modelling paper with Frank Rheindt's lab ryanchisholm.com/2020/02/10/tak… via WordPress.com

Singapore is a stronghold for the Critically Endangered Straw-headed Bulbul decimated by the wildlife trade. Distance sampling estimates 400-750 birds here, comprising 1/4-1/2 of the wild population! avianevonusdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/chiok-… #songbird #wildlifetrade #conservation

Hope never dies, tough old bird bou.org.uk/blog-forcina-h… via AvianEvo_NUS. Our latest work on the conservation genomics of Alectoris partridges in Europe

The different fates of two Asian horseshoe crab species with different dispersal abilities onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ev…

Our latest work reconstructs the global spread routes of a cosmopolitan pest, the German cockroach, using population genomic approaches with a global sampling regime. Now available in PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

A pest of our own making: revealing the true origins of the not-so-German cockroach theconversation.com/a-pest-of-our-… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

A genetic study finds that medieval warfare and colonial trade helped the German cockroach reach nearly every corner of the globe. scim.ag/71w

A genetic analysis of the German cockroach explained its rise in southern Asia millenniums ago, and how it eventually turned up in your kitchen. nyti.ms/3UNWiuS

Using DNA sequencing, the origins of one of the world’s most common insects, the German cockroach, have been traced back to Asia. Learning more about this urban pest can help us fight it effectively, explains Theo Evans from UWA. theconversation.com/a-pest-of-our-…

Where is the German cockroach actually from? We tested its DNA to trace its true origins theguardian.com/australia-news…

A ubiquitous household pest has unexpected origins go.nature.com/4dHWzbv

You have likely met the German cockroach, Blattella germanica, which has spread across the globe with humans. Genomic analysis suggests it evolved from the Asian cockroach, Blatella asahinai, in India or Myanmar around 2,100 years ago. In PNAS: ow.ly/kEBS50RXaKA

📈 Trending Article in PNAS One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “Solving the 250-year-old mystery of the origin and global spread of the German cockroach, Blattella germanica.” ow.ly/Bvpa50S8Il3 For more trending articles ow.ly/7kUC50S8IlN.