Rumour* has it Frank Herbert was inspired to create the Dune sandworms after seeing the mouths of Allodiplogaster sudhausi under a microscope.

*This rumour can't be confirmed and may or may not have originated from this tweet.

Glad to have been part of this amazing team to help resolve systematics of the Pope’s pit vipers complex
doi.org/10.3897/vz.74.… #herpetology #NewSpecies

Now published in Bioinformatics! We develop NestOR, a method that uses model evidence to determine optimal integrative modeling representations. By Shreyas Arvindekar with benchmarking by Aditi Pathak & Kartik Majila doi.org/10.1093/bioinf…

Check out our new paper on systematics of 2 sympatric coral snakes species from northeast India Harshil Patel 🦎🐍🐸
#herpetology #snakes #biodiversity #venomous
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

'We thank the reviewers for their insightful remarks'

Really excited that our latest work by Fumie Hiramatsu is out in PLOS Genetics. Here we found that kin-recognition and predation are key factors influencing Pristionchus pacificus #nematode aggregation…
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Excited to announce the 10th Asia Pacific worm meeting to be held in Bangalore 13-16 Jun '24. Worm folk do consider joining us. Registration portal opens Dec 15th, more info at apwm2024.com. Awesome line-up of speakers 👇 Worm image credit Varsha Singh PhD. Please RT.

Mites getting mites is a thing

🧵🦎Exciting research with my student Avrajjal Ghosh & Sri Lankan collaborator Kanishka Ukuwela while we unveil the mysteries of skink evolution in the Western Ghats-Sri Lanka hotspot! We reconstructed a global, genus-level, multi-locus phylogeny of Lygosomines.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zs…

Excited to be a part of the 4th International #Pristionchus Meeting 2023. bio.mpg.de/4th-internatio…

Yet another endemic lineage of reptiles from the Western Ghats, India, described as a new genus & species: Sahyadriophis
mdpi.com/2443160 #mdpitaxonomy via Taxonomy Harshil Patel 🦎🐍🐸 #herpetology #westernghats #newspecies #India #TWF

Excited to announce the upcoming Molecular Phylogeny workshop at NISER Bhubaneswar (NISER), Nov 1-6, 2023! 🧬 Join us for an enriching week of understanding Phylogenies and cutting-edge research in phylogenetics. Don't miss out! #MolecularPhylogeny #Workshop2023

Apply now to join our PhD program in #lifesciences ! Get a fully funded #PhDposition at the IMPRS “From Molecules to Organisms”. More: phd.tuebingen.mpg.de

This new #gecko species is gliding into your timeline 🦎

Named the Mizoram parachute gecko, flaps of skin catch the air and allow the #lizard to sail effortlessly to the ground.

Discover more about this extraordinary #reptile in today's #NatureNews 👇
fal.cn/3z2Dq

Another treasure from northeast India, Mizoram parachute gecko, a new species from the Indo-Burma region. Link to the paper: salamandra-journal.com/index.php/home…
Photo by Lal Muansanga
#herpetology #NewSpecies

Interested in Reptiles, Amphibians, and Morphology? Interested in pursuing a PhD? Join our Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart team!
'Convergent evolution of the olfactory system of subterranean reptiles and amphibians'
Application deadline: May 18, 2023.
quentinmartinez.fr/funded-phd-pos…

electron microscope view of a hydrothermal vent polychaete deep sea worm

How gene transcription works. DNA to RNA:

#biology by D. Berry