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Mosquito Lab @ UBC; Vancouver, Canada
https://mosquitolab.zoology.ubc.ca
So cool… congrats Leah and team!
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9 months ago
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bioRxivpreprint
11 months ago
Mosquito Cell Atlas: A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult Aedes aegypti mosquito
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.25.639765v1
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mara lawniczak
11 months ago
globally, there are ~3500 described mosquito species in the Culicidae family and many of these are important vectors of disease but only a small percentage have genomic resources. we are launching a pilot project to generate high quality reference genomes for 100 important mosquito species [1/3]
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Chloé Lahondère
about 1 year ago
I created a starter pack highlighting Women in the field of Disease Vector Biology and Ecology:
go.bsky.app/E7wuQus
Please share and let me know if you’d like to be added! 🦟🦠🪰
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Alex Wild
about 1 year ago
Mosquitoes: the photo gallery. I feel better about posting this in the off-season, for some reason (*scratches*)
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Mosquitoes - Alex Wild
Mosquitoes comprise a large family, Culicidae, of slender, scale-covered flies found worldwide. We think of mosquitoes as voracious blood-feeders, but the primary food of adult mosquitoes is actually ...
https://www.alexanderwild.com/Insects/Mosquitoes
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Katie Marshall
about 1 year ago
Congratulations to newly- minted UBC Zoology PhD graduate Dr. Jarrett Blair!
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Rory Coleman
about 1 year ago
Sharing my new paper again since moving from the other place 🙂 We shed light on some of the most rapidly evolving animal behaviors—those surrounding mating.
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A modular circuit coordinates the diversification of courtship strategies - Nature
Peripheral and central circuit adaptations can be flexibly coordinated in Drosophila, and such a modular circuit organization may facilitate the evolution of mate recognition systems by allowing novel...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08028-1#citeas
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John Soghigian
over 2 years ago
Exciting for this to finally be online! Was a privilege to be part of such a great international team. Excellent phylogenetic comparative work by
@genmorinaga.bsky.social
to cap it all off!
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John Soghigian
over 2 years ago
Had a great time hosting
@benmatthewslab.bsky.social
at UCVM! A great seminar and excellent conversations. Thanks for helping us launch our new Comparative Biology and Animal Health seminar series!
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