ferdix.bsky.social
Comparative and regulatory genomics. Animal phylogeny and evolution
👤 Joined on 13 September 2023
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@ferdix.bsky.socialIn honor of Spooky Season, this week's Bat of the Week is none other than the northern ghost bat. 👻
Show PostA flightless bird contemporary with Archaeopteryx shows how some birds thought all this newfangled flight malarkey would never take off - paper in @Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Show PostCheck out our latest work on developmental scaling: collective cell migration speeds up in larger animals and slows down in smaller ones, helping maintain a constant pace of tissue morphogenesis across different-sized animals. @ybellaichelab.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Show PostArmed & dangerous! Lobsters have a early life stage called phyllosoma, wherein they drift through the open ocean, and have the coolest habit of taking stinging siphonophores prisoner for defense Shot on scuba, while drifting in the open ocean, out over the deep abyss, at night, far offshore
Show PostA new sea urchin joins the evo-devo toolkit! Great to see Mespilia globulus established as a new model. @ferdix.bsky.social @elife.bsky.social One model can reveal a specific mechanism. Multiple models can reveal how evolution works. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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