GUIDE: Are you assembling a #genome for a #polyploid? In this new blog, Dr Camilla Ryan demonstrates how to go beyond the traditional collapsed genome and retain all haplotypes in the #assembly. okt.to/H67U5y

Take it from the Principal curator in charge of insects Natural History Museum - parasitic wasps are all the rage right now. Have you spotted a wasp that's friendly enough to sit on your fingertip? #DToLEveryday

Just under 5 weeks left to BGA24 and we have 39 sessions signed up to give fantastic talks and live tutorials on processes and tools that underpin the EBP! From sessions by Darwin Tree of Life wet lab, assembly and curation teams to Local Contexts and Wise Ancestors, there's a lot!

We also have a new sign up where you can sign up to your chosen sessions! thebgacademy.fillout.com/attendee_form

Meet the Red Ripple bryozoan - no, that's not a tongue-twister. It is the name of an invasive species. Read the Genome Note about the first chromosomally complete genome sequence based on a specimen collected by MBA - Marine Biological Association. wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-458

Join us at #BG24, where we will have fantastic sessions from the Earth BioGenome Project ELSI and EBP Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion + Committee's aswell as an IDSov session led by Krystal Tsosie. Register for this FREE conference here: biodiversitygenomicsconference.org/registration-a…

One output of this work is a new paper detailing the whole genome, at chromosome level, of common knotgrass! 🧬🌱 Formerly a food source, with seeds similar to buckwheat, its genome may help us understand agricultural breeding of plants in this group 🔬 wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-112…

When you've plants on your doorstep that need sequencing, you get sampling! 🌱 A great X-plainer from Darwin Tree of Life experts at Kew Science. This kind of science communication is music to our ears. 🎶 Do you have an amazing/quirky/interesting DToL sampling story, too? 🗣️

Earthworms have scrambled genomes. Is this how their marine ancestors were able to move into freshwater and terrestrial environments? Full article Science Magazine science.org/content/articl… Image doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… Earthworm Society UK Darwin Tree of Life Emma Sherlock Daniel F. Marchán

Thanks to Darwin Tree of Life partners Kew Science for amplifying the plan sampling they've been carrying out. #DToLEveryday Do our other project partners have stories to share? MBA - Marine Biological Association @RBGE_Science Oxford Biology Science at the Natural History Museum Earlham Institute EMBL-EBI EMBL-EBI Cambridge University

The Darwin Tree of Life has sequenced the #DNA of the Northern Bottlenose Dolphin. Analysing the DNA may help investigate the demographic history to assess the impact of historical whaling on genetic diversity & peer into population structure patterns. 🧬 wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-410

Congrats to the Ensembl team! #DYK that Ensembl is a genome browser for vertebrate genomes that supports research in comparative genomics, evolution, sequence variation & transcriptional regulation? Add your favorite Darwin Tree of Life emoji to join in the thread below...

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Earthworms have scrambled genomes?!?!?! Check out this article in Science Magazine featuring Darwin Tree of Life discussing how chaotic rearrangements of chromosomes helped leeches swim into fresh water and other worms wriggle onto land bit.ly/3ARZLSL