Wing of change
In Western Australia's remote heathlands, there exists a creature so rare and elusive, that very few people have ever had the good...
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Olga Dudchenko
Apr 241 min read
The wingless flight club
We have some exciting news to share with you. Our paper, in collaboration with a team at Princeton University led by Ricardo Mallarino...
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Anna Eichert
Mar 182 min read
Largest Stonefly in the Western U.S.
Pteronarcys californica is a member of the stonefly family Pteronarcyidae and is commonly referred to as the giant salmonfly by anglers....
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Paul Frandsen
Mar 81 min read
Weaving together the threads of the genome of the silk-spinning caddisfly
Caddisflies are miniature underwater architects. As adults, these insects resemble small brown moths, but as larvae, they are busy...
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Parwinder Kaur
Feb 132 min read
Little penguins, big love
This Valentine's Day, love is not only in the air but also along the coastal shores of Australia and New Zealand, where the world's...
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Tatiana Bulyonkova and Klaus-Peter Koepfli
Dec 14, 20232 min read
Ignoble purrsuits
Frustratingly few people know about fishers (Pekania pennanti). This cat-sized North American mustelid used to be classified in the genus...
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Jonas Bush
Nov 6, 20232 min read
Periodical cicadas – insects that count
If you live in the eastern United States, chances are your ears have come in contact with some really loud, recklessly theatrical insects...
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Parwinder Kaur
Sep 19, 20234 min read
The Spectacled Hare-Wallaby: Nature's Cutest Eyewear Enthusiast
Today, we're diving into the enchanting world of the West Australian local eyewear icon - Spectacled Hare-Wallaby, scientifically known...
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Bill Ballard
Sep 17, 20231 min read
A fetching assembly
The New Guinea Singing Dog (NGSD) is an ancient lineage of dogs that have been found in the New Guinea Highlands. Once considered a...
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Dustin Rubenstein
Sep 14, 20231 min read
Digging up mole-rat assembly data
The Cape dune mole-rat, Bathyergus suillus is the largest of the African mole-rats in the family Bathyergidae. It is a truly subterranean...
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Corey Kirkland, Marta Farré
Sep 11, 20232 min read
Don’t go chasing waterbuck
Corey Kirkland, Marta Farré Waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) are a species of antelope distributed across central and southern Africa....
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Ren Larison
Aug 28, 20232 min read
It's all Grevy
Grévy’s zebras (Equus grevyi) are distinguished from the other two zebra species by their large size and elegant, slender stripes....
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Patricia Saragüeta
Aug 11, 20233 min read
Earresistable puzzle: decoding the plains vizcacha
The South American plains vizcacha (Lagostomus maximus, Desmarest, 1817) is a rodent that inhabits the Southern area of the Neotropical...
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Parwinder Kaur
Aug 3, 20232 min read
Brewing genomes
Australia produces high quality barley, with annual production averaging over 9 million tonnes/year. It is a widely grown crop (second in...
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Parwinder Kaur
Jul 24, 20232 min read
The cat's out of the bag
The Pallas’s cat (Otocolobus manul) aka manul is a small wild cat similar in size to a domestic cat. It has a stocky build and a long,...
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Parwinder Kaur
Jun 21, 20232 min read
Hopperation wallaroo genome annotation
This post is about the common wallaroo (Osphranter robustus) or, in the language of Indigenous Australians, Nurungga. The name “wallaroo”...
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Emily Humble
Jun 12, 20232 min read
Don’t desert us!
The addax (Addax nasomaculatus) is considered the most desert adapted antelope on the planet but is also among the most endangered, with...
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Quentin Martinez
Apr 26, 20233 min read
Nosy knowtrias
Also known as the nutria, the coypu (Myocastor coypus [Molina, 1782]), is a large amphibious rodent from about 5 to 7 kg (Woods et al....
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Parwinder Kaur, Karam Singh & Lars Kamphuis
Apr 13, 20232 min read
The pest is yet to come
The bluegreen aphid, or blue alfalfa aphid (Acyrthosiphon kondoi), is a species of aphid found in many regions of the world, including...
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Anastasia Proskuryakova
Mar 20, 20232 min read
Don't rein on our parade
Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus L. 1758), or caribou, is a prominent semi-domesticated cervid species (family Cervidae, subfamily...
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P. Kaur, G. Lento, P. Perelman
Feb 20, 20233 min read
Seals fur reals
Arctocephalus forsteri, a species of fur seal found mainly around southern Australia and New Zealand, is an animal of many a common name....
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Polina Perelman
Feb 13, 20233 min read
Oncillary function
The oncilla (Leopardus tigrinus), aka the “small jaguar”, graciously walks the neotropical rainforests from Costa Rica in Central America...
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Polina Perelman
Feb 3, 20233 min read
Sei to shining sei
Sei whales (Balaenoptera borealis) are part of the group of toothless whales Myticeti or baleen whales. Fast swimming (up to 50 km/h (31...
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S. Kliver, P. Marinari, & K.Koepfli
Jan 26, 20232 min read
Getting off on the black foot
Black-footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes) once occupied much of the grasslands of the North American Great Plains. Starting in the 19th...
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Ruqayya Khan
Jan 23, 20231 min read
Hoppy new year!
Happy Year of the Rabbit everyone! To celebrate, we share the chromosome-length assembly of the New England cottontail, Sylvilagus...
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