Besides our different larger project we also have smaller projects or papers going on, which we will discuss in this category.

Miscellaneous

Research and Sustainability

There is increasing societal discussions on and measures against climate change and biodiversity loss, topics that touch the self-conception and tasks of natural history museums. In 2015, the United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals...
Crustacean Silk from under the Sea

Another paper involving a FEZ group member, this time about silk from a marine crustacean group! What can we learn from the history of the silk of the Tanaids, and how can it help us make better materials in the future?

Epictia subcrotilla, a scolecophidian snake, by Alessandro Catenazzi
A Story of Snakes and Sight (don’t we research invertebrates)?

Last week marked the release of a new paper by one member of the Invertomics group, James Fleming, in a field that seems quite far apart from the mission of the lab! “Eye-transcriptome and genome-wide sequencing for Scolecophidia: implications for inferring the visual system of the ancestral snake” was part of a long term collaboration that attempts to tackle one of the long-standing questions in snake evolution – what kind of environment did the ancestral snake live in, and what did they look like?