Leah Houri-Zeevi

@annaryba.bsky.social's paper on the neural underpinnings of intraspecific behavioral variation is now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social

Highly recommend! -> Paper identifies neural substrate for variation in promiscuity among Drosophila melanogaster strains🧪

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Links? :)

I missed this before - thank you!!!

🎉 Thrilled to see our #MosquitoCellAtlas featured on the cover of @cp-cell.bsky.social ! This mosaic represents 367K cells across 19 tissues, unveiling the complex biology that makes mosquitoes the world's deadliest animals. Beautiful art by @somedonkey.bsky.social meets the #Vosshalllab science! 🦟🎨

The final version of the clonal raider ant reference brain is now out OA in @currentbiology.bsky.social:

🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜 🧠 🐜

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#SfN25 stop by board ZZ5! We are presenting FERAL!

Black-and-white portrait of Maria Skłodowska-Curie, 1903. She is seated in a chair, wearing a dark dress with a light, patterned collar, resting her head on one hand and looking directly at the camera. public domain

Lise Meitner around 1906 in Vienna. She is wearing a long dress and a hat, standing among large plants and looking to the side. public domain

Today we celebrate the birthday of not one, but two amazing women in science! 🤗🎉Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867), who discovered #radium & #polonium & pioneered #radioactivity, & Lise Meitner (1878), whose brilliance uncovered the physics behind #nuclearfission. Happy birthday, trailblazers! ✨

Thanks Olivia!!!

A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult Aedes aegypti mosquito A comprehensive single-nucleus RNA-seq atlas of >367,000 nuclei from male and female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes reveals sexual dimorphism in sensory systems and brain cell types and widespread co-expres...

🦟 We've just published the world's first head-to-toe single-cell atlas of the Aedes aegypti mosquito in @cp-cell.bsky.social!
The #MosquitoCellAtlas maps 69 cell types across 19 tissues, revealing surprising biology. Read it here:
shorturl.at/dJWT3

Congratulations MCAs!!! What a spectacular achievement ✨

A real game-changer for the mosquito community - all packed in a beautiful paper!!!!

Thanks so much Rory! 🎉

Thanks a lot Oded!!! 🥂

The lock and key system that we discovered evolves rapidly in the wild because of the species that cheat it (thank you 𝘈𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘴) - and creates a rich model for understanding how to encode a recognition system, adapt it when under pressure, and generally:
how to change a nervous system.

A rapidly evolving female-controlled lock-and-key mechanism determines Aedes mosquito mating success Houri-Zeevi et al. uncover a lock-and-key mating system in mosquitoes, where females control mating through genital responses to rapidly evolving male structures. Males of the invasive Asian tiger mos...

www.cell.com/current-biol...

Many thanks to the amazing team that made the weird fun (but not the fun weird): Madison Walker,
@jacoporazzauti.bsky.social, Anurag Sharma, Amalia Pasolli, and the almighty @leslievosshall.bsky.social

The male genitalia of an 𝘈𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘴 mosquito

What does mating look like when you only have a single shot at getting it right?

Very excited to share our work on an almost-invisible female control, rapidly evolving mating recognition systems, and species that break the rules and take over the world. IN MOSQUITOES>

The lock and key system that we discovered evolves rapidly in the wild because of the species that cheat it (thank you 𝘈𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘴). This creates a rich model for understanding how to encode a recognition system, adapt when under pressure, and generally: how to change a nervous system.

A rapidly evolving female-controlled lock-and-key mechanism determines Aedes mosquito mating success Houri-Zeevi et al. uncover a lock-and-key mating system in mosquitoes, where females control mating through genital responses to rapidly evolving male structures. Males of the invasive Asian tiger mos...

www.cell.com/current-biol...

Many thanks to the amazing team that made the weird fun (but not the fun weird): Madison Walker, @jacoporazzauti.bsky.social, Anurag Sharma, Amalia Pasolli, and the almighty @leslievosshall.bsky.social

Q.E.D works amazingly well! I was a skeptic at the beginning and then just really really impressed. For change 🥂

Induction of menstruation in mice reveals the regulation of menstrual shedding During menstruation, an inner layer of the endometrium is selectively shed, while an outer, progenitor-containing layer is preserved to support repeated regeneration. Progress in understanding this co...

Congratulations @karalmckinley.bsky.social & lab on their groundbreaking recent preprint establishing + characterizing a chemically inducible model of menstruation in mouse:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My jaw dropped when I heard this presented earlier this year. Incredible.

הופה! אולי אתה חווה את הפלישה של הנמר האסייתי? (Aedes albopictus)
הן חיות רעות

מצטערת מאוד לשמוע איתי, תנחומיי

If you scan it you get a QR code that links to the FlyBase donations page

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Calling all transposon fans & lovers of genetic innovation

MOBILE GENOME welcomes you in Heidelberg, Nov. 4–7 2025

→ Vibrant & friendly community
→ Cutting-edge talks from mechanisms to physiology
→ Plenty of surprises (TEs never stop innovating)

submit abstract by July 29

Thank you!!! 🥹

I completely missed this post!!! Thanks so much Olivia, it was a crazy ride 🦄

Pan-viral ORFs discovery using massively parallel ribosome profiling Defining viral proteomes is crucial to understanding viral life cycles and immune recognition but the landscape of translated regions remains unknown for most viruses. We have developed massively para...

Just finished reading this amazing work from @WeingartenShira et al. A real tour de force to reveal the “dark matter” of viral genomes in high throughput:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Also, the shoooooes!!! 😍😍😍

Insect Sex - Alex Wild The world's millions of insect species display a glorious diversity of strategies for courting and mating.

Dr. Wild's Big Gallery of Bug Sex

Gregory Alan Isakov covers "The Trapeze Swinger" YouTube video by KevinIhle

It’s such a beautiful song. Do you know this version?

youtu.be/USom8PhOXgs