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Felix Zareie-Vaux

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Evolutionary biologist (he/him) 🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈 in 🇳🇿 Marine Biosecurity Scientist at Earth Sciences NZ 🌊🧬 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2882-7996 #evolution #ecology #genomics #biosecurity #biodiversity #biogeography #phylogenetics

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Felix Zareie-Vaux @felixvaux.bsky.social · 26d

Great Spring afternoon for a quick bit of Durvillaea fieldwork in the city

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Allison Lopatkin, PhD @ajlopatkin.bsky.social · Aug 12

If you ever find yourself needing evidence for ‘Plasmids are just as common in microbes without resistance genes,’ we’ve got you covered! Check our new paper, out today:

www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Plasmid prevalence is independent of antibiotic resistance in environmental Enterobacteriaceae

The rapid rise of antibiotic-resistant pathogens poses a critical threat to the treatment of infectious diseases. While the spread of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) via plasmid conjugation has bee...

www.microbiologyresearch.org

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Felix Zareie-Vaux @felixvaux.bsky.social · Aug 11

Extirpation of Lake Sturgeon in an Ontario Lake Following Dam Construction and Watershed Diversion Confirmed by Indigenous Traditional Knowledge and Sedimentary eDNA: doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

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Frank Melzner @frankmelzner.bsky.social · Aug 5

Doctoral position on genomic basis of Fucus (brown algal) local adaptation - join our exciting #Fubluc team! Fully funded for 3.5 years & we also consider candidates with strong molecular or bioinformatic skillls but no marine / algal experience, see www.geomar.de/en/karriere/...

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Felix Zareie-Vaux @felixvaux.bsky.social · Aug 5

Nature article here too: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Hakai Institute @hakai.org · Aug 4

After a four-year investigation, a breakthrough study reveals the cause of sea star wasting disease (SSWD). A strain of the bacterium Vibrio pectenicida is the culprit behind the marine epidemic that has killed billions of sea stars since 2013. Read the study: 🔗https://tinyurl.com/4rcb3xpf

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Felix Zareie-Vaux @felixvaux.bsky.social · Jul 23

MPI officers seize 619 pāua during Porirua raid, man jailed for more than two years: www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/mpi-offic...

'Driven by financial gain': Porirua man jailed over pāua haul

The man claimed they were for a wedding in Auckland but a court didn’t believe him.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · Jul 7

Huh. FOUR eyes! #molluscmonday www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Strawberry Conch (Conomurex luhuanus)

Strawberry Conch from Okinawa, JP on April 28, 2018 at 10:50 PM by Shawn Miller. Strawberry conch (Conomurex luhuanus) - - Has four eyes. A possible mutation. Location: Okinawa...

www.inaturalist.org

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Felix Zareie-Vaux @felixvaux.bsky.social · Jul 14

Can also read a paper about Beast X here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Felix Zareie-Vaux @felixvaux.bsky.social · Jun 26

Perhaps it's the experience of growing up chronically online and binge-reading Wikipedia, but I find it pretty easy to ignore blue hyperlink text. 🤷 I actually find the grey text more distracting - maybe because it's smaller and it therefore breaks up the lines?

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Katie Collins @spissatella.bsky.social · Jun 9

K is for giant wormy Kuphus, adorable Kaliela, stabby Kelletia and (putatively) Kimberella

A cream piece of cloth with a black K embroidered in the centre, surrounded by embroideries of (from top left) giant shipworm Kuphus, small top-shell snail
Kaliela, whelk Kelletia with its stabby appendages out, and orange fossil of a maybe-mollusc, maybe-not creature called Kimberella

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Felix Zareie-Vaux @felixvaux.bsky.social · Jun 9

Another cool population genomic/phylogenomic study on kelp, involving whole-genome sequencing.

Revisiting the species problem in Northeast Pacific ribbon kelp lineages (genus Alaria): Lessons learned using whole genome data: doi.org/10.1111/jpy....

Felix Zareie-Vaux @felixvaux.bsky.social · Jun 9

Interesting study on impact of recreational fishing on abalone, following earthquake ecological disturbance.

Recreational fishing effects on New Zealand abalone (pāua, Haliotis iris) after five years of fishery closure: a matrix-based approach: doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...

Redirecting

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Felix Zareie-Vaux @felixvaux.bsky.social · Jun 5

Aquatic Biosecurity Scientist job available at NIWA (soon to be NZIES) in Wellington: careers.sciencenewzealand.org/jobdetails?a...

Lots of exciting fieldwork and research opportunities!

Aquatic Biosecurity Scientist (Marine and Freshwater) - NIWA - Careers at Science New Zealand

careers.sciencenewzealand.org

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Felix Zareie-Vaux @felixvaux.bsky.social · Apr 13

Farewell to the Kaharoa I this morning 👋🚢

Felix Zareie-Vaux @felixvaux.bsky.social · Apr 6

Great example of targeted eDNA for population genetics and biodiversity management! Targeted eDNA Metabarcoding Reveals New Populations of a Range-Limited Stonefly: doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

@grahammccullochnz.bsky.social @jonwatersnz.bsky.social
#eDNA #popgen #ecology #genetics #biodiversity

On the left: a map of stream eDNA detections for stoneflies, on the right: a phylogenetic tree of COI haplotypes, which reveals several distinct clades distributed along the streams from north to south.

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Felix Zareie-Vaux @felixvaux.bsky.social · Apr 2

Thank you!

Felix Zareie-Vaux @felixvaux.bsky.social · Apr 2

Thanks!

Felix Zareie-Vaux @felixvaux.bsky.social · Apr 2

Thanks! Really cool journal to learn about!

Felix Zareie-Vaux @felixvaux.bsky.social · Apr 1

Would anyone recommend a journal for publishing a manuscript for an R Shiny app (with a biology/genetics focus)?

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Felix Zareie-Vaux @felixvaux.bsky.social · Mar 30

Need to remember this...

Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · Mar 29

Inspired by a recent conversation, and by this article (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...), I have been working on a one-pager to help researchers through the process of updating published datasets if errors are ever found. I'd love any feedback!

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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · Mar 19

1/35 New paper out! @jamesTstroud and I dive into why long-term studies are crucial for understanding evolution. They reveal processes impossible to detect in short timescales and capture rare events that transform our understanding of evolutionary dynamics.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Felix Zareie-Vaux @felixvaux.bsky.social · Mar 19

Iguanas rafted more than 8,000 km from North America to Fiji: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

#biogeography #phylogenetics #genomics #ecology #evolution

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · Mar 13

Our new @adriftlab.bsky.social paper is out, lead by @alixdejersey.bsky.social showing the insidious impacts of plastics on seemingly health birds (1/5)

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Felix Zareie-Vaux @felixvaux.bsky.social · Mar 13

Interesting read! A genome-based phylogeny for Mollusca is concordant with fossils and morphology: doi.org/10.1126/scie...

#evolution #genomics #mollusca #fossil #phylogeny #morphology #biodiversity

A 'timetree' showing the evolutionary history of molluscs, with a calibrated phylogeny and the diversity of the follow record shown.

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Felix Zareie-Vaux @felixvaux.bsky.social · Mar 2

Busy processing blackfoot pāua specimens last Friday. Beautiful creatures as always. More research to come. 👨‍🔬🐚🦠🧬

A shucked paua shell, revealing the iridescent interior shell colouration. The shell's length is being measured using calipers.

Bags of separate pāua/abalone specimens on a lab benchtop, with paired bodies and shells.