#evodevo — Public Fediverse posts

This week's #NewBooks at the library: I bought second-hand copies of Animal Anomalies: What Abnormal Anatomies Reveal about Normal Development and The Correspondence of #CharlesDarwin, Volume 14: 1866, both from Cambridge University Press. I also adopted a damaged copy of the large-format English/German Elefantenreich: Eine Fossilwelt in Europa from Verlag Beier & Beran, which features some amazing fold-out plates. I hear it is basically out of print now.

#Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #Evolution #DevelopmentalBiology #EvoDevo #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Fossils #Mammoths #Paleontology #Palaeontology @bookstodon

Ok, here's a fun one for you to discuss (from @kevinlala.bsky.social et al. magisterial book): "Parent-offspring similarity may be just a side-effect of a process whose ultimate function is not stable transmission but accurate prediction." #philbio #genetics #evolution #evodevo

Yet another #EuroEvoDevo #EED symposium turned down.

I'm so done with the field of #evodevo. They can go on sequencing the shit out of everything and CRISPRing all life to pieces. As long as they are not interested in good theory or new ideas, I am no longer interested in them.

The cool #evodevo paper everyone is talking about: Molecular evidence of anteroposterior patterning in adult echinoderms
"This finding suggests that from the perspective of ectoderm patterning, echinoderms are mostly head-like animals and provides a developmental rationale for the re-evaluation of the events that led to the evolution of the derived adult body plan of echinoderms."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06669-2
#hox #echinoderm #seastar

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Here are some keywords from the latest posts:

#Science #Biology #Outreach #Cifonauta #MarineInvertebrates #Flies #EvoDevo #DevBio #Wnt #Embryo #Larva #ImageJ #ImageProcessing #SciArt

So I was rereading a cool arachnid evo-devo paper, and I wondered…

Could you make a simple "animal" as a web page, using #CSS and #HTML as #Hox genes and body plan, so that people could tweak things using browser dev tools to hide/duplicate/alter the presentation of elements, the way scientists knock down or upregulate genes to see what it does to the animal?

Evo-devo stuff has always reminded me of using "display: none !important" or "border: 1px solid red" to figure out what CSS rules do. And like CSS Zen Garden—radically altering the look of a page with CSS without touching the HTML.

#EvoDevo #WebDev #appendages

#evodevo #arthropods #hox #dnacrobatics

Here comes the #Introduction. I am a postdoc original from #Colombia interested in #insects, #evodevo #genetics 🧬 and #patterning.

I work with butterfly 🦋 color patterns as a model to study #wnt #signaling, #generegulation, and #morphological evolution. Connecting the #genotype to the #phenotype is the goal!!!

I am a #Latina, working at GWU, in DC. #FirstGen

Done tons of #CRISPR experiments in different species of #Lepidoptera