Written by Hilda Jakin Osei-Mireku What a “zombie fungus” and a ghost moth larva can teach us about patience, transformation, and waiting during Advent Advent is a season of waiting, anticipation, and preparation. While many of us count down the days to Christmas, high in regions such as […]

If you look at the world today, it is impossible to ignore how deeply humans have reshaped it. We have turned forests into deserts and deserts into parks. We have warmed the atmosphere, melted ice sheets, and yet many still insist climate change is just a myth. Part […]

In 2018, Lewin et al proposed the ambitious goal to sequence a reference genome of each eukaryotic species on Earth within 10 years called the moonshot of biology. This proposal let to the establishment of the Earth Biogenome Project (EBP) and gained a lot of traction and momentum […]

I 2018 foreslo Lewin et al det ambisiøse målet å sekvensere et referansegenom for hver eukaryotisk art på jorden innen 10 år, kalt «moonshot of biology». Dette forslaget førte til etableringen av Earth Biogenome Project (EBP), som fikk stor oppmerksomhet og fart i etterkant. Dette førte til etableringen […]

In a previous blogpost, I asked the question how long species are able to form hybrids after their lineages diverged — and I showed that certain species of flowering plants (angiosperms) retain this ability for at least 50 million years (Ma). This question is of particular significance because […]

A couple of days ago we published the genome of a brachiopod species, in specific Discradisca antillarum in the journal G3. Brachiopods are a group of shelled, filter-feeding marine invertebrates also known as lamp shalls. Though they superficially resemble bivalve mollusks, brachiopods are not. Brachiopods have the shells […]

For et par dager siden publiserte vi genomet til en armfotinger, nærmere bestemt Discradisca antillarum, i tidsskriftet G3. Brakiopoder er en gruppe skallede, filterfôrende marine virvelløse dyr, også kjent som armfotinger. Selv om de overfladisk ligner på muslinger, er brakiopoder ikke det. Brakiopoder har skall på rygg- og […]

Annelida, or segmented worms, is a vast and diverse group of metazoans of over 20000 species that includes, amongst others, earthworms, leeches, echiurids, sipunculids and polychaetes. With over 300 species the polychaete family Cirratulidae is one of the most species-rich and common in benthic assemblages in a variety […]

Annelida, eller segmenterte ormer, er en stor og mangfoldig gruppe av metazoer med over 20 000 arter, som blant annet omfatter meitemark, igler, echiurider, sipunculider og polychaeter. Med over 300 arter er polychaete-familien Cirratulidae en av de mest artsrike og vanlige i bentiske samfunn i en rekke habitater. […]

We all know a worm. We all know a snail. Or at least, we think we do.But nature often blurs the lines we draw so confidently. In the case of vermetid snails, also known as “worm snails,” appearances can be deceiving. These creatures look like worms but are, […]