🎙️Season 2 of our podcast is here! Kicking things off with the mind-blowing study below. This research shatters the assumption that herbarium specimens are unsuitable for transcriptomics, successfully extracting mRNA from historical plant samples: open.spotify.com/episode/1cqA...

#phylogenetics Mac users alert: TreeHouse opens trees with >500k+ tips and it is very FAST. The initial version can open, sort, root/unroot, & save multitree newick files (Nexus+ coming soon). Karolis is soliciting features. Apple-certified installer here: github.com/karolisr/tre...

Rapid detection of RNase-based self-incompatibility in Lysimachia monelli New #AJB research by Karolis Ramanauskas, Francisco Jiménez-López, Mercedes Sánchez-Cabrera, Marcial Escudero, Pedro Ortiz, Montserrat Arista & Boris Igić doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #pimpernel #evolution