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Triplewart Seadevil (Cryptopsaras couesii), a deep water, oceanic anglerfish. In this developmental sequence, I start with a young larvae (top). In the middle are specimens depicting mid-to-later stage, larval and transforming individuals. An adult is depicted at the bottom.

Tornado path in St. Louis can be seen through Google Maps traffic

Initial survey of the May 16 St Louis tornado. The tornado likely continued much further into IL and survey teams will continue to assess over the coming days. Tornado began in Clayton at 2:41 pm, up to 1 mile wide, EF3 (150mph) intensity. The path is at least 8 miles so far...

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Plasmid-based reporter assays are the bedrock of regulatory genomics. But a basic question has gone unanswered for decades: Do chromatin architectures form on plasmids transfected into mammalian cells—and does it matter? We finally have answers. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Learned today that an entire chromosome is axed off the genome of all somatic cells in song birds through a process called programmed DNA elimination. Song birds have dedicated an entire chromosome just for their germ cells (a germ-line restricted chromosome). Evolution never

This phylogeny of "living fossils" Coelocanths apparently suggests significant survival of many of their clades through the P-Tr event 🤔 journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Scientists have hardly ever seen anglerfish alive in their natural environment. That’s why this 2018 video, captured in the waters around Portugal’s Azores islands, had stunned deep-sea biologists. Learn more: scim.ag/3Zgt4rC #ScienceMagArchives

mScarlet3-H (aka mYongHong) is on the cover of Nature Methods! All plasmids are available for free from WeKwikGene wekwikgene.wllsb.edu.cn/publications/7…

Our new review paper is out @ JMB!　🧬 Katsuhiko Minami Adilgazy Semeigazin, MSc よしこりあん discuss DNA accessibility in euchromatin and heterochromatin in living cells. 📘 Free access: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHgb54HFZNbb 🔗 Also, check our previous paper on nucleosome motion: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Our paper on the genomic formation of Uralic and Yeniseian peoples is now out. Congratulations to everyone involved! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Blind trilobites, presumably phacopid — Trimerocephalus chopini found by our students in Kowala Quarry, Poland (this species was described from the same quarry in 2013) in the lower Famenian (Upper Devonian) strata. cc: Niles Eldredge

These fossilized sea lilies (crinoids) were found in the Moroccan desert, preserved in stunning detail. Photo: Crimeteo Mbakri

If you dig a bit - the species name boops (pronounced bow-ops) comes from the Greek words "bo" (meaning ox) and "ops" (meaning eye), referring to the relatively large eye compared to close relatives.

Our new work bioRxiv 🔗biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… BRD4-NUT forms liquid-like condensates that locally constrain nucleosomes via bromodomain-mediated crosslinking: physical control of #chromatin by #LLPS transcription condensates. Adilgazy Semeigazin, MSc Katsuhiko Minami Masa A. Shimazoe

#NewSpeciesAlert - 𝑃𝑜𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑢𝑠 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑏𝑎𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠, a new species of ghost electric knifefish is described from the Javaés River, a tributary of the Araguaia River in the Brazilian Amazon. #Gymnotiformes #Apteronotidae 🔓 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jf…

In the latest issue! A clinical road map for single-cell omics dlvr.it/TLwkKj

The California Blind Goby (Typhologobius californiensis) lives with Tidepool Ghost Shrimp, (specifically Neotrypaea biffari) in their sandy burrows. The goby is endemic to the tidepools of Central and Southern CA as well as the Mexican Pacific shoreline.