Doing genomic research with a masonry trowel
When you think about genomic research and sequencing genomes like it is the goal of the Earth Biogenome Project (EBP), Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE) or Inv... Read more.
ERGA pilot project – what can we learn for future genome projects
As a proof of principle the European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) consortium initiated at the beginning a pilot study. Several sequences centers and different ... Read more.
The importance of the small stuff for science
Yesterday, we published an preprint on the meiofauna and why it is important to study them and which scientific questions should be addressed next. The publicat... Read more.
Teaching about sea squirts, worms and skeleton shrimps in Drøbak
As part of the ArtsDatabanken project “Assessing biodiversity in the marine algae belt“, we taught a class of eager students and consultants about t... Read more.
The story about the Norwegian banker and the Hawaiian spiders ends – it was a great collaboration
Last week a long journey finally came to a result. If you remember, we were lucky to secure a Peder Sather grant to secure a collaboration between Rosemarie Gil... Read more.
ERGA pilot project – the selected species
As a proof of principle the European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) consortium initiated at the beginning a pilot study. Several sequences centers and different ... Read more.
The chosen ones or how to select species to genome sequence
The last years have seen an increasing number of sequencing consortia being established in support of the Earth Biogenome Project’s (EBP) goal of sequenci... Read more.
The mitochondrial gene order of Annelida – extremely old, but still working
Mitochondria are the energy plant of our cells. Originally, they were bacteria, but then they were captured by the ancestors of eukaryotes (among others all ani... Read more.
Staphylinid beetles, 24 new genetic markers and new insights into their taxonomy – Jørgen’s defence
Yesterday, Jørgen Hansen Starholm defended his Master thesis “Solving phylogenetic relationships within the Rove beetle genus Aleochara (Coleoptera: Stap... Read more.
Systematics and ecosystem function – can they go together?
In the summer of last year, Zoologica Scripta organized an international symposium around the topic of ‘The role of systematics for understanding ecosystem fu... Read more.