#museomics — Public Fediverse posts

An aquatic and predatory larval fruit fly!

"Chemosensory evolution in the aquatic predator Drosophila enhydrobia", Ghanavi et al. 2026 (Marcus C. Stensmyr's lab @marcus_stensmyr )

"Museomics recovers a genome from a 40-year-old D. enhydrobia specimen"

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(26)00459-8

#Drosophila #entomology #Museomics

#Museomics highlights the importance of scientific museum collections.

At a symposium in Paris, a University of São Paulo professor of #zoology explains how new technologies allow for the use of degraded DNA from specimens preserved for decades, contributing to the advancement of scientific knowledge and the conservation of

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1087512 #museums #collections #science

New preprint out where we compare WGS with target enrichment for old museum specimens of moths in the families Epicopeiidae and Sematuridae! Great work done by co-authors Elsa, Victoria and Marianne!

#Lepidoptera #museomics #Epicopeiidae #Sematuridae #Geometroidea

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.21.553699v1

Precious cargo of canasteros from Peru is out of quarantine. 🥳 Genetic samples already sequenced but these wings need to be photographed for estimations of flight performance. Data galore. #museomics #biodiversitydata #Furnariidae

Returning to taxonomy, my 6th paper of the year was a study on the very weird frogs of the Gephyromantis subgenus Laurentomantis, describing four new species, with the aid of #Museomics to clarify type specimens. This was led by Miguel Vences.
http://doi.org/10.3897/vz.72.e78830

I appear on the latest episode of the New Species Podcast, talking about the score of new frog species we described from Madagascar. This is #IntegrativeTaxonomy and #Museomics in action. Check it out:
https://anchor.fm/newspeciespodcast/episodes/20-New-Species-of-Frogs-with-Mark-Scherz-e1soniq

New #OpenAccess book
"Molecular identification of plants: from sequence to species"
A comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the topic.
#eDNA #Museomics #Forensics
https://ab.pensoft.net/book/98875/list/2/

We are grateful to the Natural History Museum - Tring and
the Zoology Museum in Cambridge for providing historical samples. To Nature Seychelles for assistance on the original collection of modern samples. To MSCActions, GrundforskFond, DefraGovUK, ELSA and dgeci for funding 7/7 #Museomics #EvolutionaryBiology #conservationgenomics

@RobLanfear I mostly work on #phylogenetics and #phylogenomics of parasitic wasps, although lately I've also branched into beetles and nematodes. Mostly interested in resolving poorly defined lineages using #Museomics but also using empirical and simulation data to understand why some clades are difficult.

An #Introduction:

I'm the #Curator of #Herpetology at the #NaturalHistoryMuseum of #Denmark, and #AsstProf of #Vertebrate #Zoology at the University of Copenhagen.

I work in evolutionary and systematic herpetology, working on a variety of topics including #museomics, #macroevolution, #convergence, #phylogeography, #speciation, #systematics, and #taxonomy. I mostly work on the #amphibians and #reptiles of #Madagascar. #Miniaturisation is my jam.

An #Introduction:

I'm the #Curator of #Herpetology at the #NaturalHistoryMuseum of #Denmark, and #AsstProf of #Vertebrate #Zoology at the University of Copenhagen.

I work in evolutionary and systematic herpetology, working on a variety of topics including #museomics, #macroevolution, #convergence, #phylogeography, #speciation, #systematics, and #taxonomy. I mostly work on the #amphibians and #reptiles of #Madagascar. #Miniaturisation is my jam.

An #Introduction:

I'm the #Curator of #Herpetology at the #NaturalHistoryMuseum of #Denmark, and #AsstProf of #Vertebrate #Zoology at the University of Copenhagen.

I work in evolutionary and systematic herpetology, working on a variety of topics including #museomics, #macroevolution, #convergence, #phylogeography, #speciation, #systematics, and #taxonomy. I mostly work on the #amphibians and #reptiles of #Madagascar. #Miniaturisation is my jam.

An #Introduction:

I'm the #Curator of #Herpetology at the #NaturalHistoryMuseum of #Denmark, and #AsstProf of #Vertebrate #Zoology at the University of Copenhagen.

I work in evolutionary and systematic herpetology, working on a variety of topics including #museomics, #macroevolution, #convergence, #phylogeography, #speciation, #systematics, and #taxonomy. I mostly work on the #amphibians and #reptiles of #Madagascar. #Miniaturisation is my jam.

Tom Major from Bangor University will discuss how "Museomics reveal the identity of a mysterious venomous snake from Zimbabwe."

#VenomDay2022 #SciComm #Snakes #Herpetology #Museomics #Genomics

Just moved from another server so sending my #introduction again - I work at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, #universityofcopenhagen as Associate Professor and Curator of Botany - my research focuses on #plants #pollinators and their interactions using #fieldwork, #eDNA, #Genomics & #museomics - I curate the flowering plants in #herbarium C & the #botanicalgarden - also Lead #Curator for the #biodiversity gallery being created as part of the new #NHMDenmark.

Just moved from another server so sending my #introduction again - I work at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, #universityofcopenhagen as Associate Professor and Curator of Botany - my research focuses on #plants #pollinators and their interactions using #fieldwork, #eDNA, #Genomics & #museomics - I curate the flowering plants in #herbarium C & the #botanicalgarden - also Lead #Curator for the #biodiversity gallery being created as part of the new #NHMDenmark.

Just moved from another server so sending my #introduction again - I work at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, #universityofcopenhagen as Associate Professor and Curator of Botany - my research focuses on #plants #pollinators and their interactions using #fieldwork, #eDNA, #Genomics & #museomics - I curate the flowering plants in #herbarium C & the #botanicalgarden - also Lead #Curator for the #biodiversity gallery being created as part of the new #NHMDenmark.

Just moved from another server so sending my #introduction again - I work at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, #universityofcopenhagen as Associate Professor and Curator of Botany - my research focuses on #plants #pollinators and their interactions using #fieldwork, #eDNA, #Genomics & #museomics - I curate the flowering plants in #herbarium C & the #botanicalgarden - also Lead #Curator for the #biodiversity gallery being created as part of the new #NHMDenmark.

Just moved from another server so sending my #introduction again - I work at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, #universityofcopenhagen as Associate Professor and Curator of Botany - my research focuses on #plants #pollinators and their interactions using #fieldwork, #eDNA, #Genomics & #museomics - I curate the flowering plants in #herbarium C & the #botanicalgarden - also Lead #Curator for the #biodiversity gallery being created as part of the new #NHMDenmark.

Introduction: I’m Natasha de Vere, from the UK, working at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen. I’m an Associate Professor and Curator of Botany - my research focuses on #plants & #pollinators using fieldwork, #eDNA & #museomics - I curate the flowering plants in #herbarium C and the #botanicalgarden - I’m Lead Curator for a gallery about #biodiversity being created as part of the new NHM Denmark. I post about research, #collections and occasionally #WinterSwimming