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Old Specimens, New Scientist: A Student’s Account of Sequencing Historic Herptile Type Specimens
The Covid-19 shutdown and restrictions halted any opportunities to learn about and contribute to on-going research at the University of Oslo (UiO). Because I’... Read more.
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An initial foray into scientific research: Meet the new undergraduate research student at FEZ
Joining the FEZ group as part of the University of Oslo’s (UiO) Summer Research Program, Pia M. Eriksen is a Bachelor of Biosciences student taking part in an... Read more.
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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.
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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.
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New Paper Exposing The Challenges and Limitations Inherent to Ancient Dietary Reconstructions Using Dental Calculus Metagenomic Data
Author: Rita Austin (former group member) New research highlights and tests the limitations of dental calculus (i.e., calcified dental plaque), a microbiome sub... Read more.
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Other projects and teaching
Besides our different larger project we also have smaller projects or papers going on, which we will discuss in this category.... Read more.
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Museomics
Here we blog about our research on working with DNA from museum samples done by different members of the group and all around collections.... Read more.
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From the forest to the deep sea
This week a member of our group, Torsten Struck, published a review paper on the two annelid families Parergodrilidae and Orbiniidae together with Miguel Meca f... Read more.
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International Happy Seasons
We hope you enjoyed the wrap up of the year 2020 for the FEZ group as a traditional advent calendar. While setting up the various doors we noticed that we ... Read more.
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A tale of stone and ice
Our calendar is coming to its close and at the second-to-last day it features two Master projects, which started this year working with annelids, which are both... Read more.