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.
Group of the month: Parergodrilidae (Annelida)
This month’s ”Group of the month” is a bit of shameless self-promotion. I will present an animal group today, where we conduct quite a lot of research on.... Read more.
Door 17: The carbon footprint of our computational analyses
In recent years, there has been a new movement in biology and especially in phylogenetics, which looks at the carbon footprint of our computational analyses. It... Read more.
Door 11: How can hybrid incompatibility collapse enlighten hypotheses about stasis?
Today, I would like to present to the paper by Tianzhu Xiong and James Mallet about “On the impermanence of species: The collapse of genetic incompatibili... Read more.
Door 3: How stable can a genome be?
The answer to this question may lay in the paper I am presenting today and at some level genomes seem to be very stable. It was probably one of the most discuss... Read more.
The taxonomic challenge of the annelid genus Perinereis (Nereididae) just gets larger
Today, our paper about Perinereis species from the intertidal coasts of the Red Sea, Gulf of Suez and Suez Canal lead by Asmaa Haris Elgetany was published in Z... Read more.