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  1. This guy casually rocked up and started munching, two feet away from where I'm sitting. At this rate he'll be on my lap begging for scritches by next week 🤣

    He runs off when I make big or sudden moves but he also comes back within a minute or so. Lil weirdo 😅

    #hedgehog #egel #igel #wildlife #brave #dapper #brutaal #wtf #alrightythen #spikyfren #wildlife #backyardwildlife #urbanwildlife

  2. The #European #hedgehog, #Erinaceus #europaeus is native to parts of southern/ central #Europe, Scandinavia, and northern Russia. It lives solitarily in overlapping #territories and protects itself from #predators by #curlingup, which requires complex muscular coordination.
    K. Schütte et al. (2024) identified #ectoparasites of 498 specimens. #Ixodes #ricinus and I. #canisuga were the most abundant #ticks.

    © #StefanFWirth #Berlin 2025

    Ref
    doi.org/10.1186/s13071-023-060

    #Photos
    © S.F. Wirth

  3. Whole #genome characteristics of #hedgehog #coronaviruses from #Poland & analysis of #evolution of #Spike protein for its interspecies #transmission potential pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/393048

    BCoV-Eri is to some extent prevalent in wildlife asylums. Given that S protein of BCoVs-Eri is highly variable & that some sites of this protein evolve under positive selection pressure, these strains could potentially acquire a favourable feature for cross-species transmission.

  4. New talk this Friday from @Myers_lab on #embryonic development and #cancer and how understanding the #Hedgehog pathway can help develop therapeutic methods! Join us at twitch.tv/open_science!
    #STEM #biochemistry #chemtwitter #openscience #scicomm #ScienceMastodon #chemistrymastodon #chemistry #streaming
    (Attached picture has the abstract)