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Trends in Genetics @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social · 6d

"The untapped potential of short-read sequencing in biodiversity research"
by Christoph Bleidorn (@cblei.bsky.social) et al

"Genomic resources have the potential to transform our understanding of the vast, still largely unknown diversity of species..."

More at:
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Figure 1. Graphic summary of short-read applications discussed in this review.

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Christoph Bleidorn @cblei.bsky.social · May 20

Absolut!

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Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social · May 14

Zancolli, @marcrr.bsky.social @agneeshbarua.bsky.social et al. show that venom glands in marine predatory snails evolved via functional divergence from digestive organs, involving gene expression shifts and enhanced secretory machinery.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf095

#evobio #venom #mollusca

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Matthias Waltert @matthiaswaltert.bsky.social · May 7

Neues Online-Angebot für Biodiversitätsinteressierte in Südniedersachsen!
fokus-vielfalt.de

Home • FokusVielfalt

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Nico Posnien @posnienlab.bsky.social · May 6

And June will be closed by Ronald Jenner from @nhm-london.bsky.social on Thursday, June 26 at 2.15 pm (CET) (hosted by @cblei.bsky.social).

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Christoph Bleidorn @cblei.bsky.social · May 6

New paper by @mtaguado.bsky.social Two new species of Syllidae (Annelida) from Misaki Bay and Sugashima Island, Japan - including Virchowia christophi (picture below) www.mapress.com/zt/article/v...

Two new species of Syllidae (Annelida) from Misaki Bay and Sugashima Island, Japan | Zootaxa

www.mapress.com

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Maite Aguado @mtaguado.bsky.social · Apr 25

Just published! Gene expression patterns during reproduction in the remarkable branching annelid Ramisyllis kingghidorahi. What happens at the molecular level when a worm with multiple branches gets ready to reproduce? Find out here: bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Sex-specific differential gene expression during stolonization in the branching syllid Ramisyllis kingghidorahi (Annelida, Syllidae) - BMC Genomics

Background Ramisyllis kingghidorahi (Annelida, Syllidae) is one of few annelid species with a ramified body, one anterior end and hundreds of posterior ends. R. kingghidorahi belongs to the family Syl...

doi.org

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Christoph Bleidorn @cblei.bsky.social · Apr 23

Check this job advertisement by @mtaguado.bsky.social for a 3-year position, in case you are interested to do your PhD at the @unigoettingen.bsky.social on the amazing branching annelid Ramisyllis www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht...

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Christoph Bleidorn @cblei.bsky.social · Apr 21

Prey and prejudice: predation by the European bee-eater Merops apiaster has species-specific effects on the ecology and genetics of bumblebees nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Christoph Bleidorn @cblei.bsky.social · Apr 2

Today is the time to hear this song in repeat #Arminia #WirFahrenNachBerlin youtu.be/9PVI-4myKHM?...

Buttermaker- Arminia Bielefeld

YouTube video by dscJo

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Christoph Bleidorn @cblei.bsky.social · Mar 31

Gehe ich auch von aus - der Autor scheint auf reviews spezialisiert.... sciprofiles.com/profile/Rich...

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Christoph Bleidorn @cblei.bsky.social · Mar 31

What happened here and who is Johann Friedrich Humboldt? I am curious if MDPI will publish this... www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...

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Christoph Bleidorn @cblei.bsky.social · Mar 28

Conserved leucine-rich repeat proteins in the adhesive projectile slime of velvet worms www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Conserved leucine-rich repeat proteins in the adhesive projectile slime of velvet worms | PNAS

The slime of velvet worms (Onychophora) is a protein-based bioadhesive that undergoes rapid, yet reversible transition from a fluid into stiff fibe...

www.pnas.org

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Forum Wissen @forumwissen.bsky.social · Mar 27

"Was zum Quant?!" - die neue Sonderausstellung im #ForumWissen der @unigoettingen.bsky.social vermittelt Einblicke in Anfänge der Quantenmechanik in #Göttingen.
Ab heute geöffnet!
🔗 Ein schöner Artikel dazu: shorturl.at/wy1wN

Ausstellung zeigt Geschichte der Quantenmechanik

www.sueddeutsche.de

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Christoph Bleidorn @cblei.bsky.social · Mar 25

Unveiling the diversity of gut microbes in green lacewings (Chrysopidae: Neuroptera) and their role as protagonist in nutrition link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Christoph Bleidorn @cblei.bsky.social · Mar 19

Familienaktionstag mit unseren neuen Comic-Helden Pim, Pixel und Piku im Forum Wissen @forumwissen.bsky.social @unigoettingen.bsky.social Sonntag, 23.3., von 10-18 Uhr www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html...

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Christoph Bleidorn @cblei.bsky.social · Mar 18

Fundamental questions in meiofauna research highlight how small but ubiquitous animals can improve our understanding of Nature www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Fundamental questions in meiofauna research highlight how small but ubiquitous animals can improve our understanding of Nature - Communications Biology

This paper identifies the top-50 priority questions for meiofaunal research, highlighting their critical roles in biogeochemical cycles and biodiversity. It calls for a balanced research agenda, inter...

www.nature.com

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Christoph Bleidorn @cblei.bsky.social · Mar 14

Host ecology and phylogeny shape the temporal dynamics of social bee viromes www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Host ecology and phylogeny shape the temporal dynamics of social bee viromes - Nature Communications

Viromes, or viral communities, may evolve host-specificity. Here, the authors use 100 plant and insect viral sequences to find that plant-pollinator interactions and phenology shape the plant virus co...

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Christoph Bleidorn @cblei.bsky.social · Mar 11

Proportions of aposematic colouration in bees and wasps (Hymenoptera, Aculeata) and their main mimics – hoverflies, clearwing moths and longhorn beetles jhr.pensoft.net/article/1412...htt

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Christoph Bleidorn @cblei.bsky.social · Mar 11

An annotated catalog of Annelida types at the Museum of Nature Hamburg, Zoology. Part I: Annelida: Errantia: Aciculata: Eunicida, Myzostomida, Aciculata incertae sedis, and Errantia: Protodriliformia evolsyst.pensoft.net/article/1377...htt

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Forum Wissen @forumwissen.bsky.social · Feb 25

Was sind #Quanten? Die Physik der Quantenmechanik ist allgegenwärtig: in Lasern, Solarzellen & Supermarkt-Kassen. Unsere kommende Sonderausstellung zeichnet die Erforschung quantenphysikalischer Prinzipien nach und blickt bis in die Gegenwart.
📅 27.03 – 5.10.2025
🔗 www.forum-wissen.de/was-zum-quant/

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Forum Wissen @forumwissen.bsky.social · Feb 26

Den eigenen #Garten in ein #Insektenparadies verwandeln?! Mehr dazu im neuen Buch von Michael Schwerdtfeger „Nonplusultrapflanzen“ - präsentiert auf unserem Blog!
Dr.Schwerdtfeger stellt sein Buch morgen 27.2.2025, 17h im Forum Wissen @unigoettingen.bsky.social vor!

forum-wissen.de/blog/der-sch...

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Christoph Bleidorn @cblei.bsky.social · Feb 25

Mit Hochdurchsatzsequenzierung das Biodiversitätsmonitoring ausbauen link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Uni Göttingen @uni-goettingen.de · Feb 24

Automatic cell analysis using #AI

Researchers retrained existing AI-based software on over 17,000 microscopy images with over 2 million structures to develop this new model - Segment Anything for Microscopy: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html...

#NatureMethods research: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

This is a flat grey image with cell structures in darker grey. Some of the cells are coloured and shown in green boxes. This image - Segmentation of electron microscopy images with μSAM - shows how the model can segment nuclei, with points and boxes from the user and the corresponding masks predicted by the model.
Photo: The underlying image comes from data published in Cell (S0092-8674(21)00876-X). Image created by Anwai Archit using the μSAM tool.

This is a three dimensional representation with a cross-section showing dark patches in different colours and the outside of the structure with bright different colours (green, purple, blue, dark pink, yellow, orange). The image shows plant cells acquired with a fluorescence microscope that were segmented automatically with the model. The underlying data is three-dimensional and the image shows a rendering of the segmented cells, each represented by a different colour.
Image from: Nature Methods: s41592-021-01249-6

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