It was an honour to work with Naomi Langmore, Alicia Grealy and the whole team on this paper. Collections are research infrastructure @EcoEvo_ANU@MuseumGenomics
New paper out today on the cover of Science!!! Parasitic cuckoos and their hosts are locked in an evolutionary arms-race that is driving speciation. Biological collections can answer big scientific questions – in this case, how do new species form? @CSIRO@MuseumGenomics
Did you publish a museum genomics investigation before 2022? If so, consider submitting the DOI at edwards-bird-lab.github.io/m… to add it to a community bibliography of museum genomics research! 🪱 🍁
Taxonomy: Museomics reveal new insights into systematics of the subfamily Neotominae—@mekisus
- Neotominae highly specious, includes diverse but taxonomically unresolved deer mice
- Strong support for 5 new proposed genera with UCE mtDNA
- Peromyscus to be monophyletic
#IMC13
Looking foward for #SMBE2023 where I will be presenting my poster about Finnish butterflies🦋, climate change, genetic diversity and museomics on Monday from 18:00 at San Paolo cloisters. Feel free to stop by, if you want to know more 😇
ALT The text on the graphic reads: New APPS Associate Editor, Dr. Richie Hodel, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. About Dr. Hodel: Dr. Hodel studies how the interaction between the genome and the environment produces traits important for determining plant species' distributions and their responses to climatic changes on recent and ancient timescales. A photo of Dr. Hodel is on the right of the graphic.
Think a natural history museum would b interested? Historically, would b if this was collection of specimens but #MuseumGenomics is growing & some collections may b excited 2 acquire this. If they r worried bout curation costs, random/representative subset could be useful later.
Time for #ConservationGenetics lightning talks. Matt Lott with a speed update on koala genomics, museum collections, climate change and conservation #ICG2023
Systematics: Museum genomics & morphology illuminate evolutionary history & diversity of Oriental Giant Squirrels—@ArloHinckley
- Giant 🐿️ exist—the size of cats, but taxonomy is unstable
- At least 2 distinct lineages each in bicolored and cream-coloured giant squirrel
#IMC13
ALT There is currently 4 recognized species of giant squirrels.
RNA sequences from >130 year old dry tissue, from a Thylacine specimen @naturhistoriska 🤯
Take a moment and think about what museum collections can yield in future studies, from mRNA profiles to RNA viruses…
Fantastic work by @MarmolE6 and colleagues (lab work @CpgSthlm) !
Now out as Advance Online in @genomeresearch , our paper describing "Historical RNA expression profiles of the extinct Tasmanian tiger" 🐺🐅
genome.cshlp.org/content/ear…
Do you want to know more about it? Let me summarize our main findings in a thread below (1/14) 🧵
talk integrating museum genomics and fossil record to understand a little better the evolutionary history of psenid wasps at the 10th Congresso of @Hymenopterists
In case X dies: we will be hiring 3 postdocs in the next year to work on an @NSF-funded project: with me @NAU, Frank Burbrink @AMNH and Tiago Simões @Princeton. Ads to come but DM me if you're into squamates, museums, phylogenetics, comparative genomics and phenotypic evolution!