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Up in the air: Presence and collection of DNA from air and air conditioner units
(analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
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Still time to sign up to our COS Symposium 2024
"Life in Context: Organismal sensing and adaptation in the natural environment"
in Heidelberg July 22-23, 2024.
Free registration.
with @vincentflora, @NicoleDubilier, @GonzalezLab and many other great speakers
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Beautiful new study by Michael Bok, Macali & Garm on the high-resolution eyes of the enigmatic alciopid annelids, from Ponza island.
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Beautiful new study by Michael Bok, Macali & Garm on the high-resolution eyes of the enigmatic alciopid annelids, from Ponza island.
"Our results show that the eyes of alciopids possess the anatomical, morphological, and physiological properties requisite for high resolution tasks and object vision"
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.02.055
#annelid #Evolution #eye @biology @mikebok
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We have now published a new and massively extended/reworked preprint of the whole-body #Platynereis larval #connectome with over 50 figures
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We have now published a new and massively extended/reworked preprint of the whole-body #Platynereis larval #connectome with over 50 figures
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.17.585258v1
All the analyses, plots and figures should be reproducible in #rstats with the code provided:
https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10825370
by querying our public #CATMAID database:
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Press release at @eLife of our paper exploring the mechanism of pressure sensing by UV light sensors in #Platynereis larvae
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Press release at @eLife of our paper exploring the mechanism of pressure sensing by UV light sensors in #Platynereis larvae
Luis Alberto Bezares Calderón et al. paper here:
https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/94306
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Oldest known sex chromosome emerged 248 million years ago in an octopus ancestor
(www.livescience.com)
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Interesting review by Maria Sachkova on the #ctenophore nervous system and the challenges of studying it.
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Interesting review by Maria Sachkova on the #ctenophore nervous system and the challenges of studying it.
https://doi.org/10.1111/ede.12472
#neuroscience @biology
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Brains Are Not Required When It Comes to Thinking and Solving Problems--Simple Cells Can Do It
(www.scientificamerican.com)
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We’ve never understood how hunger works. That might be about to change.
(www.technologyreview.com)