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Kati Wright @Wrightfish

@Virginia_Tech 2016 | @NichollsState 2024 #GarLab | Views my own

Joined May 2022
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Kati Wright retweeted
Dr. Solomon David@SolomonRDavid
31 May 2024
#GAR2024 FREE virtual conference is this coming Monday/Tuesday June 3-4! Join us to hear about the latest gar & bowfin research. See link in quote tweet for registration info (FREE!)
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Dr. Solomon David@SolomonRDavid
10 May 2024
ConGARtulations @Wrightfish on successfully defending her master’s thesis!!! Her research takes a large-scale approach to Alligator Gar life history and ecology with important management implications!
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USM Center for STEM Education@usmSTEMed
6 May 2024
GenSea shows kids job possibilities in the blue! Thanks to @Wormy_Sturgeon for showing us the way! #GenSea #STEMjobs #BlueEconomy #STEMeducation #centered #ToTheTop #workforcedevelopment @CoastalUSM @USMArtsSciences @soseusm
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Here we go!
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Dr. Solomon David@SolomonRDavid
30 Mar 2024
Check it out! @Wrightfish & @TPWDnews team’s hybrid gar catch featured in story @HoustonChron! “Student catches one of the rarest gar in the country from Texas river” chron.com/life/wildlife/arti… 📸1 Kati & field team w/ Alligator Gar 📸2 close-up of hybrid gar *all fish released👍
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Dr. Solomon David@SolomonRDavid
29 Mar 2024
“Kati Wright, a master’s student @NichollsState in Louisiana, hauled a six-foot, alligator-longnose hybrid out of the Trinity River in Texas, an extremely rare find” Shoutout to hybrid gar caught (and released) by @Wrightfish & @TPWDnews in story @NatGeo! nationalgeographic.com/anima…
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Dr. Solomon David@SolomonRDavid
28 Mar 2024
“If it all works out, there would be a delicious bit of irony for David, who spends a lot of time trying to change minds about fish that have long been persecuted for being ugly and of no commercial value.” Thanks @bittelmethis for the story @NatGeo!!! nationalgeographic.com/anima…
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Dr. Solomon David@SolomonRDavid
26 Mar 2024
Hybrid Gar has entered your timeline…
Photo of an Alligator Gar x Longnose Gar hybrid features the prominent snout of a gar, longer/narrower than an Alligator Gar, but shorter/broader than a Longnose Gar. This fish was tagged and released during fieldwork by GarLab and Texas Parks & Wildlife. Photo Credit: Kati Wright

ALT Photo of an Alligator Gar x Longnose Gar hybrid features the prominent snout of a gar, longer/narrower than an Alligator Gar, but shorter/broader than a Longnose Gar. This fish was tagged and released during fieldwork by GarLab and Texas Parks & Wildlife. Photo Credit: Kati Wright

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Dr. Solomon David@SolomonRDavid
19 Mar 2024
We chat about @TheGarLab and the importance of native fishes with @JDLauritsen @WCCO CBS News Minnesota! Full video here: cbsnews.com/amp/minnesota/ne…
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Dr. Solomon David@SolomonRDavid
14 Mar 2024
The tale of a wild hybrid gar and what it tells us about living fossils! @TheGarLab graduate student @Wrightfish shares her field experience with these rare fish! New story @IFLScience by @The_RHF iflscience.com/the-oldest-pa…

The Oldest Parental Split Of Any Animal, Plant, Or Fungi Hybrid Is A Fish

The two fish it takes to make this gar hybrid last shared a common ancestor 100 million years ago.

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IFLScience
@IFLScience
8 Mar 2024
What Is A Living Fossil? First Evidence Of A Biological Mechanism Reveals All iflscience.com/what-is-a-liv…

What Is A Living Fossil? First Evidence Of A Biological Mechanism Reveals All

Why are these fish living fossils? Because they GAR.

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Michael J Andres@Wormy_Sturgeon
9 Mar 2024
It is #InternationalWomensDay2024 and I want to shout out the amazing women scientists that have chosen to work with me. Their hard work and determination make the lab work. @lyssa_pagel @KaseaPrice @m_legrest @sarah_stov28192, Ceci, Lindsay, and alumni @greenbeath @Wrightfish
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Dr. Solomon David@SolomonRDavid
31 Jul 2019
The two faces of Alligator Gar: 1 Fierce 2 Derp. *both harmless to humansđź‘Ť#GarLab
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Chase Brownstein@ChaseBrownstein
4 Mar 2024
4/13 We had noticed that in contradiction to essentially all other species, the two living genera of gars still hybridize despite diverging in 105 million years ago. These hybrids are near perfect intermediates b/w parental phenotypes!
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Chase Brownstein@ChaseBrownstein
4 Mar 2024
6/13 This makes gars the oldest wild hybrid cross in eukaryotes by nearly 50 million years. How could barriers to hybrid viability and fertility fail to form over >100 million years?
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Dr. Solomon David@SolomonRDavid
3 Mar 2024
Alligator Gar says hello! 📸@Wrightfish
Headshot image of an Alligator Gar with a large river in the background.

ALT Headshot image of an Alligator Gar with a large river in the background.

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1st gar of the day fishing with TPWD on the Trinity!
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Seeing lots of Argulus in the Trinity River and thinking of @Wormy_Sturgeon 🔬
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Coming in at 27 Alligator Gar, 1 hybrid, & 5 Longnose Gar.. I’d say it was a pretty successful trip to the Trinity!
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