Our badass 454 sequencing reveals awesome deep-sea insights
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By , on November 30th, 2011 One comment   New Research, Uncategorized   , , , , , ,  

Make no mistake about it — I am shamelessly pimping out our lab’s new paper, written by yours truly. In fact, the title of this blog post was actually an alternate name for the manuscript (although I’d love to see the reviewer comments on that title). Technology is absolutely ridiculous these days. My iPhone is . . . → Read More: Our badass 454 sequencing reveals awesome deep-sea insights

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A great day for a little Traumatic Insemination
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By , on August 12th, 2011 2 comments   Biodiversity, Ecology, Invertebrate Wars, Mating & Reproduction, Weird   , , ,  

Sometimes I think that those of us studying ‘minor phyla’ do so in order to prevent from developing some secret (potentially peverse) obsessions. Example: I recently attended the Society of Nematology’s 50th Anniversary meeting, where the plenary topic was….traumatic insemination. This was the subsequent topic of conversation for the next four days. “Write a blog . . . → Read More: A great day for a little Traumatic Insemination

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Marine Fungi are Totally Badass
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By , on August 3rd, 2011 6 comments   Biodiversity, Critters, Microbes   , , ,  

That’s right, you heard me—there are mushrooms that live in the sea. OK, well technically a mushroom is a fruiting body of a fungus with a cap, stem and gills, but lets take some dramatic liberties and run with it.  A new draft manuscript recently necessitated that I review the literature on marine fungi – . . . → Read More: Marine Fungi are Totally Badass

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