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Houston, TX
Joined December 2018
Put your armor down. New genome out now @thednazoo, built with George Eisenhoffer & team (@MDAndersonNews): the fish scaled gecko. Learn all about their scale shedding secrets in the blog below: https://t.co/iWWCyaOcRq.
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Fish-scale geckos, Geckolepis spp., are small and arboreal lizards endemic to Madagascar and the Comoro Islands. The base coloration of the fish-scaled gecko is generally chestnut-cream with darker...
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Happy to share our new paper out in ME! We generated a chromosome-level genome for the waterbuck and WGS historical museum collections, allowing us to explore population structure and gene flow at a finer-scale, and polymorphic chromosome (Rb) fusions. https://t.co/swPyC1Q7Mp
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Advances in sequencing and chromosome-scale assembly have brought non-model animals into focus, deepening our understanding of genome and chromosome evolution. Here, we present the waterbuck (Kobus...
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Today in collab w @okstate @AMNH @USDA and others we release a chrom-length assembly for the threatened American burying beetle, the largest beetle in N.America. Check out blog post by @srhittson. Carrion! https://t.co/cGFr8fbf7R
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The American burying beetle, Nicrophorus americanus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), is the largest burying beetle in North America. The American burying beetle (ABB) has lost nearly 90% of its original...
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🎁Happy holidays! Celebrate with WOOL-E 🦣🤖 - an @OpenAI custom-GPT & experiment in sci-comm trained by @raginiimahajan using our @CellCellPress paper https://t.co/8Yj03tWPvb! Ask WOOL-E for all things paleo3Dgenome👉 https://t.co/thWCPa7dxp & explore 📖 https://t.co/tFjcXhocxr!
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Happy holidays, everyone! To celebrate the festive season, we come bearing a gift: our latest experiment in science communication!Earlier this year, our team published an exciting paper in Cell,...
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🚀🦗 The Behavioral Plasticity Research Institute (BPRI) launches its docuseries on locusts! 🌍✨ Discover how science reveals the transformation of solitary locusts into swarming pests. Join the journey! 📺▶️ https://t.co/Ny2f8H16YJ
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The last thylacine died on Sep 7 1936. 60y later National Threatened Species Day was established to spotlight Aussi species facing peril. In observation, we share assembly for Kyloring, parrot prioritized for recovery. W @PerthZoo @uwanews @Dr_Parwinder: https://t.co/8sfM44MHc8
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In Western Australia's remote heathlands, there exists a creature so rare and elusive, that very few people have ever had the good fortune to see it. The Western Ground Parrot (Pezoporus wallicus...
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How the sugar gliders got their wings https://t.co/VYTMmYspY3
@R_Mallarino @JorgeMorenoPhD & colleagues' work out in @nature today - a beautiful evodevo story! many thanks to @s__ellis @UCSDCooperLab for great context and perspective on the findings.
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Several marsupial species, including sugar gliders, independently evolved a way to make membranes that allow them to glide through the air
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Ever wondered when the pigs will fly? For answers offered by marsupials check our our work w @R_Mallarino @erezaterez @JorgeMorenoPhD @odudcha & collabs from museums & zoos across the world, out today @Nature. Please read! https://t.co/3Y3yT2GlRl. More in https://t.co/kiv90jCOEh
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We have some exciting news to share with you. Our paper, in collaboration with a team at Princeton University led by Ricardo Mallarino and Jorge Moreno, is out today in Nature!In this work, we...
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Good things come to those who bait! Like this giant salmonfly chrom-length genome assembly, put together in collaboration with @anna_eichert @RGGSatAMNH and @paulbfrandsen and team @BYU. Read more in the blog post below! https://t.co/RMaDxVBTYp
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Pteronarcys californica is a member of the stonefly family Pteronarcyidae and is commonly referred to as the giant salmonfly by anglers. P. californica is the largest species of stonefly in the...
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Check out the threads of this particular genomic story, woven together by @paulbfrandsen and team! Underwater silk, and the caddisfly that can do the trick: https://t.co/NNeRNdTvsn
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Caddisflies are miniature underwater architects. As adults, these insects resemble small brown moths, but as larvae, they are busy building underwater homes and cases (Fig. 1). While not as well-kn...
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Join us this Valentine's Day to celebrate Fairy Penguins from Australia & New Zealand as we unveil the first chromosome-length assembly, for these waddly symbols of love! @lotterywest @uwanews @PerthZoo @PawseyCentre @thednazoo
https://t.co/NiuIP78j6u
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This Valentine's Day, love is not only in the air but also along the coastal shores of Australia and New Zealand, where the world's smallest penguin species, the Fairy Penguins, prepare for the final...
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Hey, interested in cicadas? Check out our paper on the first chromosome-length whole genome assembly of a periodical cicada, led by former frandlab wundergrad and current penn state PhD student, @_jonas_bush_ (and in collab with @CicadaScience, @thednazoo, @JillWegrzyn, others)
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Casting out knowledge and fishing you a good day with a new genome assembly, in collab w @NYSDEC and Klaus-Peter Koepfli & team @NationalZoo. Find out more about the sushi-free existence of this fisher in blog post below!
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Frustratingly few people know about fishers (Pekania pennanti). This cat-sized North American mustelid used to be classified in the genus Martes, but never quite fit in. The fisher used to inhabit...
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Screaming about this genome assembly of a periodic cicada in collaboration with @_jonas_bush_ @paulbfrandsen @CicadaScience. Join the brooderhood! https://t.co/wJaxEGRHUu
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If you live in the eastern United States, chances are your ears have come in contact with some really loud, recklessly theatrical insects that always make their presence known. These raucous insects...
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Starting off in specstacular style: thrilled to announce the release of spectacled hare-wallaby genome, @WA_GenomeAtlas inaugural, made possible by the generous support of @Lotterywest, @uwanews! #GenomeAtlas #SpectacledHareWallaby #WildlifeResearch 🐾🔍 https://t.co/g9sWMyzTCj
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Today, we're diving into the enchanting world of the West Australian local eyewear icon - Spectacled Hare-Wallaby, scientifically known as Lagorchestes conspicillatus, a real spectacle to behold… if...
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Check this pawsome assembly (cN50=42Mb sN50=66Mb) for New Guinea Signing Dog, an ancient dog lineage with a unique howl. Collab w @UniMelb @GeorgiaTech @UDelaware @Bill__Ballard @ben_d_rosen et al. Thx Melody and keepers @northgeorgiazoo for the sample! https://t.co/5ynP5FdOsU
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The New Guinea Singing Dog (NGSD) is an ancient lineage of dogs that have been found in the New Guinea Highlands. Once considered a species in its own right (Canis hallistromi) it is now thought to...
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Dig into some Cape dune mole-rat data with the new genome assembly out today @thednazoo! Thank you to @jtung5 @DustRubenstein, collaborators & teams for help with the sample. Read about awesome burrowing adaptations trending in the underground scene: https://t.co/1IOArbXdqN
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The Cape dune mole-rat, Bathyergus suillus is the largest of the African mole-rats in the family Bathyergidae. It is a truly subterranean mammal that attains a body mass of up to 2 kg and uses its...
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We are crossing another assembly off the waterbucket list today. Check out the curious case of waterbuck chromosomes described in detail by @marta_f_b @coreykirkland21 @biokent in the blog post below! https://t.co/wUv1dWThrk
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Corey Kirkland, Marta FarréWaterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) are a species of antelope distributed across central and southern Africa. The name waterbuck derives from their greater dependence on water...
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No horsing around @thednazoo: ze Grévy's zebra genome assembly out today. Thx @RockTheWebNow @GregBarsh @HudsonAlpha & Ren Larison @UCLA for help w sample, and thx @PawseyCentre & DZA @uwa for compute. Read more on this endangered zebra in Ren's blog post: https://t.co/U1gYoH33EO
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Grévy’s zebras (Equus grevyi) are distinguished from the other two zebra species by their large size and elegant, slender stripes. Grévy’s are also unique among zebras for their mating system. Plains...
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Hop stuff off the press: chrom-length plains vizcacha known for record oocyte counts out today @thednazoo! Effort led by @CONICETDialoga @saraguetalab @bibliohoussay @FundacionIbyme, thx @AgrarioPBA @maimonidesedu @AlfredoVitullo for help with the sample! https://t.co/NlP0bsuYB2
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The South American plains vizcacha (Lagostomus maximus, Desmarest, 1817) is a rodent that inhabits the Southern area of the Neotropical region, mainly distributed in Argentina, from the North of...
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