And in just a couple of days later, here is the next mitogenome paper published! Several more on the way in the next few weeks!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tonight and for an eternity to come we grieve. She was an amazing companion and family member. She is dearly missed.

YES! DNA acquired from Minicosa neptuna from South Africa!

Also, I got quantifiable DNA from all the lycosid species I have from North America, Europe, Israel, Australia, and South Africa!

Next step: To the sequencing facility on Tuesday!

Minicosa neptuna female from South Africa! It's a terrible picture taken with my phone, but it's a picture... Scale in the background is 1mm x 1mm.

Unsupervised undergrads...

Yep, this a novel gene arrangement for spiders (Araneae). Coming soon!