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Jessica Thomas Thorpe @jessthorpemas.bsky.social · 27d

Oh I’ll defo have a look, very cool. I guess this is why it’s flagged as contaminated on Genbank :)

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Jessica Thomas Thorpe @jessthorpemas.bsky.social · 27d

Yay! Amazing work guys!!!

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Jessica Thomas Thorpe @jessthorpemas.bsky.social · Apr 9

Yay mammoth! And nice work Camilo!

J. Camilo Chacón-Duque @jcchacond.bsky.social · Apr 9

For my first-ever bsky post, I’m thrilled to share our latest #ancientDNA research, which I co-led with @jessthorpemas.bsky.social

OA: doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf065

We recovered and analysed mitochondrial genomes from many #mammoths spanning the last million years 🦣🧬⌛

Check this 🧵 we wrote ⬇️

Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · Apr 9

New paper 🧵

A team co-led by #cpgsthlm 's researcher @jcchacond.bsky.social has analysed DNA from a large number of mammoths across a million-year timescale 🦣🧬

The findings include the discovery and analysis of the oldest known woolly #mammoth in North America!

👉 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

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Jessica Thomas Thorpe @jessthorpemas.bsky.social · Feb 27

And if anyone is kicking themselves for missing it, here is the recording for my #ProcB seminar yesterday on #isopod #phylogenomics.

cassyni.com/events/VVbok...

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Jessica Thomas Thorpe @jessthorpemas.bsky.social · Feb 20

I'll be talking about my #ProcB isopod phylogenomics paper in the Royal Society Publishing Ecology & Evolution Online Seminar Series, live (with Q&A) next Weds 26th Feb 2pm (UK).
Please reshare to reach all the lovers of #isopods (& #phylogenomics), who might be interested in their #evolution!
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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · Feb 14

Adaptation to life on land evolved multiple times in arthropods, but what about isopods? Join us on Weds 26 Feb at 2pm (UK) to hear #ProcB author @jessthorpemas.bsky.social discuss her work on this key ecological transition. Find out more & sign up: cassyni.com/events/VVbok...

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Joana Meier @joanameier.bsky.social · Feb 24

Do you use Darwin Tree of Life (DToL) genomes for your work or grant applications? If so, can you please fill out this form? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We are gathering info on how DToL genomes are used. It will help us raise money to continue producing publicly available high-quality genomes.

Darwin Tree of Life Impact Assessment

This form is used to share information within DToL about case studies, ongoing research, and funding awards that demonstrate the impact the Darwin Tree of Life consortium project has had on Global and...

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Jessica Thomas Thorpe @jessthorpemas.bsky.social · Feb 20

I'll be talking about my #ProcB isopod phylogenomics paper in the Royal Society Publishing Ecology & Evolution Online Seminar Series, live (with Q&A) next Weds 26th Feb 2pm (UK).
Please reshare to reach all the lovers of #isopods (& #phylogenomics), who might be interested in their #evolution!
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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · Feb 14

Adaptation to life on land evolved multiple times in arthropods, but what about isopods? Join us on Weds 26 Feb at 2pm (UK) to hear #ProcB author @jessthorpemas.bsky.social discuss her work on this key ecological transition. Find out more & sign up: cassyni.com/events/VVbok...

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · Feb 14

Adaptation to life on land evolved multiple times in arthropods, but what about isopods? Join us on Weds 26 Feb at 2pm (UK) to hear #ProcB author @jessthorpemas.bsky.social discuss her work on this key ecological transition. Find out more & sign up: cassyni.com/events/VVbok...

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Jessica Thomas Thorpe @jessthorpemas.bsky.social · Feb 14

Definitely false hope! :) I also now now note it’s a triploid, which would be unexpected…

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Jessica Thomas Thorpe @jessthorpemas.bsky.social · Feb 14

Not Armadillidium vulgare?!

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Jessica Thomas Thorpe @jessthorpemas.bsky.social · Feb 12

I recently shared my journey into #isopod #science 🧪 with The Marine Biologist magazine! 🦐 From Jurassic Park sparking my curiosity in DNA, to studying isopod genomics with #sanger #darwintreeoflife - read it here: mymba.mba.ac.uk/resource/unf...
Thanks @thembauk.bsky.social for the opportunity!

Unfurling isopod evolution

<b>From underneath plant pots to the deep sea, genomic studies reveal the intricate world of isopods.</b>

mymba.mba.ac.uk

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Priyantha Wijesinghe @elaphrornis.bsky.social · Dec 23

For #Crustmas one of my favorite woodlouse (Crustacea: Isopoda: Oniscidea) species: Platyarthrus hoffmannseggii . 29 April 2024, Marine Park area, Brooklyn, NYC. On @inaturalist.bsky.social
www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Ant Woodlouse (Platyarthrus hoffmannseggii)

Ant Woodlouse from Long Island, New York, NY, US on April 29, 2024 at 03:08 PM by Priyantha Wijesinghe. Marine Park, Brooklyn. Path from Nature Center trail to Lenape Playground. Under log. With host...

www.inaturalist.org

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Ryan Howard @abyssalaquanaut.bsky.social · Dec 19

I believe this species is part of the cirolanidae family that likely feeds on the carcasses of dead animals.

The oldest isopod fossils date back around 300 million years, so they’ve been around a long time!

🧪 #MarineLife #Inverts

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Keiichi Kakui @tanaidologist.bsky.social · Dec 19

(in September)
Shiraki & Kakui ab digenean parasitic in anthuroid isopod published online

ウミナナフシを利用する吸虫に関する成果がオンライン公開されました．

article link: doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...

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Squidpastry @squidpastry.bsky.social · Dec 17

Ancinus depressus, the flat pillbug, for day 16 of #crustmas!

This is a wonderfully rectangular, flat isopod that likes the sandy, shelly substrates of nearshore marine habitats, particularly beaches.

When threatened, it rolls into a ball. It's flat, broad shape means it can only try it's best.

Close-up photograph of Ancinus depressus, a white, rectangular-shaped, flattened isopod in the palm of my hand. It's eyes are tiny, and on either side of it's head at the front of it's body. It's telson is triangular and large, taking up a considerable portion of the animal's length (about a quarter). It's shell is pale, white and subtly mottled greyish tones.

Close-up photograph of Ancinus depressus, a white, rectangular-shaped, flattened isopod in the palm of my hand. It is now attempting to roll into a ball, but due to it's shape, it can only manage a wide, oblong form. It's telson, being so large, juts out prominently from underneath it's head.

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Jessica Thomas Thorpe @jessthorpemas.bsky.social · Dec 20

So cool!!

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Spidermax @spidermax3000.bsky.social · Dec 19

It’s the 19th day of #crustmas and earlier this month I went out in the cold 40° weather to find this wild #isopod for this celebration. (Shot near Cincinnati 12-4-24) #photography #invert #macrophotography #crustacean

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Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · Dec 18

For #Crustmas - a long isopod on the stipe of a kelp that was washed up on the beach and taken into the lab. I believe it is the kelp isopod Pentidotea.

A very long and thin isopod crustacean on a kelp stem. The isopod has the look of a centipede. It is on top of and parallel to the stem and is facing toward the left. The view is side-on. The isopod is gripping the stem with six of its apparently seven pairs of legs. It has long antennae that are pointing forward and appear to be a little over half the length of the body. The overall color of the isopod is tan, but it has a dark line across the body where each of its seven body segments meet. It also has five or six fainter lines that run from head to tail evenly spread across the upper body. Its legs are transparent. A small eye is visible. The kelp stem is dark brown, and there is a second stem above this one and the isopod. The background is the tangled root-like holdfast of the kelp, and it is a much lighter yellowish brown.

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KamilSJaron.bsky.social @kamilsjaron.bsky.social · Nov 22

Tree of Life at Sanger released 2,000 genomes! All beautiful, (close to) chromosomally complete references free to be used by anyone.
www.linkedin.com/posts/sanger...

Tree of Life Programme on LinkedIn: We are celebrating 2,000 published genomes made public. 🎀 We're asking:…

We are celebrating 2,000 published genomes made public. 🎀 We're asking: Have you used Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life reference genomes in your…

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Jessica Thomas Thorpe @jessthorpemas.bsky.social · Oct 30

Excited to share that my isopod evolution paper is now out:

Phylogenomics supports a single origin of terrestriality in in isopods

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Phylogenomics supports a single origin of terrestriality in isopods | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Terrestriality, the adaptation to life on land, is one of the key evolutionary transitions, occurring numerous times across the tree of life. Within Arthropoda, there have been several independent tra...

doi.org

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Jessica Thomas Thorpe @jessthorpemas.bsky.social · Sep 23

Ahh I certainly can! (But won’t spoil it for others)

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Jessica Thomas Thorpe @jessthorpemas.bsky.social · Sep 17

(since everyone else seems to be doing it...)

Jessica Thomas Thorpe @jessthorpemas.bsky.social · Sep 17

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Jessica Thomas Thorpe @jessthorpemas.bsky.social · Jun 17

Hey Rob, one way I’ve used is to build contigs, then create a blast database of your contigs and query with closely related busco sequences. Better than mapping if you have more distantly related species.

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Jessica Thomas Thorpe @jessthorpemas.bsky.social · May 16

New preprint! Phylogenomics supports a single origin of terrestriality in isopods.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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