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 🤣🧪🔬
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 🍻
March 19th is Taxonomist Appreciation Day! The World Register of Marine Species is celebrating by announcing the Top 10 New Marine Species described in 2023! Check out the list here 👇🧪 lifewatch.be/en/worms-top...
New copepod genus is described and named Avatar because it has processes that look like the wings of the flying ikran (Mountain Banshees) in the James Cameron franchise. Also giving plesiosaur vibes if you ask me 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Museum folks, please bring your fury! Like the Duke herabarium, the National Museum of Wales is now in danger of losing support for all its geology/paleo collections! 🧪 Petition: petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...
Our new paper is out today using microCT to understand the family Shiinoidae, some of the most unusual parasitic copepods 🧪🧵 peerj.com/articles/169...
I’m looking to test a few tools for predicting amino acid sequences from draft genome assemblies that do not have associated RNA-Seq data. Any recommendations? 🧪🧬