#cepaea — Public Fediverse posts

I work on colourful Cuban snails (Polymita) and European snails (Cepaea). The last person to do that - at least according to Web of Science - was Alex Comfort. Now where do I know that name from?? 🤔🐌🤔👫 #snails #cepaea #polymita

This summer I'm going to try luring the eastern shell-nesting mason bee (Osmia conjuncta) into my yard. The species occurs in Pennsylvania but is extremely rare, probably because its preferred shell, Anguispira kochi, is presumed to be locally extinct. But Ontario populations of the bee are thriving and seem completely happy to use shells of Cepaea (an invasive from Europe) so I thought I'd give them a try here. Yes, I know this is futile. #bees #osmia #insects #snails #shells #cepaea #pollinators #entomology #ontario #canada

New 🐌 paper, in which we tried to identify qtls that contribute to continuous variation in snail shell colour. While lacking power, short answer is that colour locus is involved, as well as likely other loci elsewhere.
https://academic.oup.com/jeb/article/37/9/1091/7721743?guestAccessKey=4512cf78-ba5e-4c71-ac15-4352edfaade0

#PaperThemeTune "My New House" by the Fall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D36kOzop6oo #snails #genomics #cepaea #qtl

I am starting #ArtAdventCalendar with this Eastern Snail Shell Mason Bee (Osmia conjuncta), a small North American blue bee which makes nests in suitable empty snail shells! In my linocut I show this adorable little pollinator with a Cepaea shell. Each print is 8” by 8” on delicate Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper. I am truly charmed by the idea of a snail shell nest!

#linocut #printmaking #masonBee #snailShell #sciArt #OsmiaConjuncta #Cepaea #NativeBees #pollinator #MastoArt

Hatchling to adult in five months, the new 🐌 regime is working 😀! Almost an animal 'model'.
#Cepaea #animalmodel #snails

SHOW2023 - short for Simultaneously Hermaphroditic Organisms Workshop - was hybrid last week @vuamsterdam (co-organised with @YumiNakadera) and contained great presentations, useful discussion sessions, a wonderful boat dinner (Smidtje), and a lovely, ethically produced 100% natural cotton bag for participants. Next year: SHOW2024, Rennes (France) @steve_ramm

#hermaphrodite #lymnaea #ophryotrocha #macrostomum #cepaea #polymita #lysmata #deroceras #lehmannia #rumina

SHOW2023 - short for Simultaneously Hermaphroditic Organisms Workshop - was hybrid last week @vuamsterdam (co-organised with @YumiNakadera) and contained great presentations, useful discussion sessions, a wonderful boat dinner (Smidtje), and a lovely, ethically produced 100% natural cotton bag for participants. Next year: SHOW2024, Rennes (France) @steve_ramm

#hermaphrodite #lymnaea #ophryotrocha #macrostomum #cepaea #polymita #lysmata #deroceras #lehmannia #rumina

SHOW2023 - short for Simultaneously Hermaphroditic Organisms Workshop - was hybrid last week @vuamsterdam (co-organised with @YumiNakadera) and contained great presentations, useful discussion sessions, a wonderful boat dinner (Smidtje), and a lovely, ethically produced 100% natural cotton bag for participants. Next year: SHOW2024, Rennes (France) @steve_ramm

#hermaphrodite #lymnaea #ophryotrocha #macrostomum #cepaea #polymita #lysmata #deroceras #lehmannia #rumina

SHOW2023 - short for Simultaneously Hermaphroditic Organisms Workshop - was hybrid last week @vuamsterdam (co-organised with @YumiNakadera) and contained great presentations, useful discussion sessions, a wonderful boat dinner (Smidtje), and a lovely, ethically produced 100% natural cotton bag for participants. Next year: SHOW2024, Rennes (France) @steve_ramm

#hermaphrodite #lymnaea #ophryotrocha #macrostomum #cepaea #polymita #lysmata #deroceras #lehmannia #rumina

SHOW2023 - short for Simultaneously Hermaphroditic Organisms Workshop - was hybrid last week @vuamsterdam (co-organised with @YumiNakadera) and contained great presentations, useful discussion sessions, a wonderful boat dinner (Smidtje), and a lovely, ethically produced 100% natural cotton bag for participants. Next year: SHOW2024, Rennes (France) @steve_ramm

#hermaphrodite #lymnaea #ophryotrocha #macrostomum #cepaea #polymita #lysmata #deroceras #lehmannia #rumina

BBSRC DTP student Margarethe Johansen presenting at the NHM molluscan forum this afternoon - a whole genome linkage map for the 🐌 Cepaea nemoralis, showing all 22 chromosomes
#MolluscanForum #BBSRC #UoN #UoNLifeSci #cepaea #colourpolymorphism #NHM

Mid-November and there are still colour polymorphic Cepaea nemoralis (grove snail) out and active in the UK; worldwide #iNaturalist records by month on right.

#UoN #BBSRC PhD student Margarethe Johansen will present an update (based on whole genome linkage map) in our quest to identify the colour and banding loci, this Thursday at #MolluscanForum #NHMLondon. Free registration, hybrid event [email protected] #Cepaea #grovesnail #Evolution #Polymorphism