Finishing the tale of stone
In last year’s advents calendar, we presented the Master theses of two students. One of the students, Stian Aleksander Helsem has successfully defended hi... Read more.
A visit, a small boat, a worm = a new record of an invasive species and a paper
In October 2018, Vasily Radashevsky from the Russian Academy of Sciences briefly visited our collection to go through the material of Spionidae, marine worms of... Read more.
Stygocapitella – an incredibly old worm found beneath your beach towel
Species of the genus Stygocapitella belong to the ringed worms, also known as Annelida. Annelids are worms like earthworms, lugworm or christmas tree worms, but... Read more.
A new paper on Christmas tree worms from the Persian Gulf and the possible first case of heteroplasmy in Annelida
In pre-Covid times, Samaneh Pazoki has visited our lab for 6 months from Iran as part of her PhD. In the meantime, she has successfully defended her PhD and we ... Read more.
A US-Norwegian banker, Hawai’i and a spider genome – How do they come together for biodiversity research?
Written by Jose Cerca (former member of our group and now as a guest author on this blog) Spiders are some of the most charismatic animal lineages. Despite this... Read more.
Biodiversity research in the Genomics era
Sequencing technology has changed in research in biology tremendously and probably much more than any other technology before. The development from radioactivit... Read more.
Group of the month
Starting January 2022, we will post here every month a blog about an animal group we are working, are interested in or find generally interesting. We found like... Read more.
Bad apples and a marine worm – sometimes they go together
During his PhD Jose was interested in the evolution of the cryptic species complexes in the annelid genus Stygocapitella, which occurs at sandy beaches around t... Read more.
What causes species not to change despite ongoing evolution?
Cryptic species have for long time been considered as purely a taxonomical challenge. However, in the last decade it has been shown that their recognition has a... Read more.
Miscellaneous
Besides our different larger project we also have smaller projects or papers going on, which we will discuss in this category.... Read more.