Thank you! 😊
New lab website just dropped www.BernotLab.org
Asked for advice on retrieving super small copepod cuticles after DNA extraction and I’m LOVING the diagram I received from a friend 🤣🧪🔬
If you want to get technical, we are all fish research.reading.ac.uk/research-blo....
That is just their typical shape
Living fish!
Some of the weirdest parasitic copepods are in the genus Philichthys. They live inside the skull bones of marine fish. They are so weird that we don’t know what most of their body parts are. There is a male in the vial to the left of the giant female, which is about an inch long 🧪
Today is #TaxonomistAppreciationDay and I am feeling extremely grateful for Geoff Boxshall, an amazing scientist and taxonomist who taught me basically everything I know about copepod taxonomy, systematics, and morphology. Couldn’t ask for a better mentor and friend 🍻
It needed no introduction 😅