How will coral reefs respond to climate change? Well, let’s start with an analogy. Suppose you pick an arbitrary time of day, choose a random…
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All hail! Bacteria that control their squid overlords
Squid typically aren’t my thing, but I can certainly be wooed by their microbes. Example: the very awesome symbiotic relationship between the Hawaiian bobtail squid,…
View More All hail! Bacteria that control their squid overlordsRelease of the Daphnia Genome
Today marks the long-awaited release of the Daphnia pulex genome, published today in Science. Why is this such a momentous occasion? Well first of all,…
View More Release of the Daphnia GenomeIf I had my way, we’d just sequence everything
Sometimes I find it really frustrating that all we ever talk about is species (granted, I am very guilty of this too). Is it new? …
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