#Insect

Insect genomes, by the numbers. New #openaccess paper w/ @paulbfrandsen and @joannalkelley.Fun facts:- 536 species w/ nuclear genomes- Aquatic insects are WAY underrepresented- 29 terrestrial insects to chromosome-level, 0 aquaticMore
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Wouldn't it be nice to JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF A WING VEIN?For #SICB2021 I did that. View here: https://sicbannualmeeting.pathable.co/meetings/virtual/ojDALmNPhqAoLisEtCollaborators Dr. Jake Socha (@snake_flyer) & Pavel ShevchenkoS
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Bad news for bees: The Government has bowed to pressure from the National Farmers Union to agree the use of a highly damaging pesticide - neonicotinoid thiamethoxam - for the
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We re-analysed Seibold et al. 2019’s @nature study on #insect declines in Germany and found that after accounting for temporal pseudoreplication by adding a year random intercept term, 4 of
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1/ Humans aren't the only animal to practice farming and domestication. Fish, insects and microbes have also evolved to form mutual domestication pacts, so some examples... 2/ The parrotfish farms
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(1/ ) Thread: New work by @gndaskalova @AlbertPhillimo2 @IslaHMS is _super_ important for the #InsectApocalypse conversation: a simple statistical change to account for pseudoreplication applied to the 2019 German study
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For #FossilFriday meet Dunbaria! This ~285 million year old insects is wonderfully preserved: you can even see bands of colour on the wings. It's a member of an extinct group
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Excellent special edition on global #insectdeclines published today in @PNASNews. Contains 13 articles available here:https://www.pnas.org/content/118/2#TheGlobalDeclineofInsectsintheAnthropoceneSpecialFeatureIn this thread, I’ll highligh
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DM: so moses the pharaoh is still refusing to let your people go since you botched that persuasion check, a-MOSES: i cast insect plagueDM: are you sure? we haven't fully
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If every insect suddenly disappeared overnight all life on Earth would end by 2070 so I trust newspapers will now focus on how the annihilation of insects due to habitat
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Excellent bug; beautiful and unusual blue, nice spotty detail and subtle carapace texture 8/10https://twitter.com/Myrmecos/status/1325065533516034054 It really is a good bug, bront Piglet bug is interesting iridescent brown, bit weird looki
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2021 the (real) story so far:1. the oldest, thickest Arctic sea ice is not as stable as previously thought2. committed global warming has a most-likely value of 2.5°C3. grasslands are
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Its not just Government but all of us as well. For example once this is over, if you have a yard or similar,sustainably plant vegetation that support insects, or order
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1) #GreatFoodTransformation"Humanity has never before set out to RADICALLY CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM at the scale or speed envisaged by the Commission.""Opponents will warn of unintended consequences... This Commission disagrees
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Happy to see our paper out in New Phytologist! With @trichogramma74 @SetarehTwitareh and non-twitter Eddie Griese and Niccolo Bassetti a.o. Twitter summary https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/nph.17145 1/8 When cabbage whit
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When walking I’m usually head down, searching for wildflowers. And there are so many right now. These are from the weekend. Starting with an artist’s favourite. The teasel. Another spiky
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