Christoph Bleidorn
@cblei.bsky.social
Professor for Animal Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Goettingen, and Scientific Director of the Forum Wissen Goettingen
New preprint from the lab, led by PhD student Leopold Preuß, with @marta-tischer.bsky.social, @cblei.bsky.social, and others. We show genomic evidence for #Wolbachia being an overlooked nutritional symbiont in solitary #bees. #SymbioSky https://tinyurl.com/3wzt27hy Short thread: (1/8)
🐝🐝🐝 Weltbienentag 🐝🐝🐝 Der 20. Mai ist Weltbienentag! SAT.1 war in Göttingen und hat Wildbienen-Fachleute der @bsggoettingen.bsky.social interviewed 🥳 @cblei.bsky.social Natürlich im Alten Botanischen Garten der @uni-goettingen.de - einem absoluten Wildbienen-Hotspot! 🐝
VIDEO | Wildbienen in Gefahr: So kann man ihnen helfen - SAT.1 REGIONAL
In Deutschland gibt es rund 600 Wildbienenarten, etwa 390 davon kommen auch in Niedersachsen vor. Mehr als 60 Prozent dieser Arten sind bedroht. In Göttingen erforschen Biologen die unterschiedlichen ...
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🐝🐝🐝 Sieben neue Wildbienenarten für Niedersachsen entdeckt! 🐝🐝🐝 Artikel in Kooperation von Fachleuten der @bsggoettingen.bsky.social @habitecture.bsky.social @jki-research.bsky.social @funcagroeco.bsky.social @cblei.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de ua. Download▶️ www.researchgate.net/publication/...
🧬 PhD Position: Evolutionary & Comparative Genomics 🕷️ Join us at @uni-goettingen.de for a 3-year PhD (65% TV-L E13). We will investigate the genomic & phenotypic impact of gene duplication across 233 arthropod genomes! More infos 👇 and s.gwdg.de/eDrAAY #Evolution #Genomics #Bioinformatics
Posnien - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
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"The untapped potential of short-read sequencing in biodiversity research" by Christoph Bleidorn (@cblei.bsky.social) et al "Genomic resources have the potential to transform our understanding of the vast, still largely unknown diversity of species..." More at: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Zancolli, @marcrr.bsky.social @agneeshbarua.bsky.social et al. show that venom glands in marine predatory snails evolved via functional divergence from digestive organs, involving gene expression shifts and enhanced secretory machinery. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf095 #evobio #venom #mollusca
Neues Online-Angebot für Biodiversitätsinteressierte in Südniedersachsen! fokus-vielfalt.de
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And June will be closed by Ronald Jenner from @nhm-london.bsky.social on Thursday, June 26 at 2.15 pm (CET) (hosted by @cblei.bsky.social).
New paper by @mtaguado.bsky.social Two new species of Syllidae (Annelida) from Misaki Bay and Sugashima Island, Japan - including Virchowia christophi (picture below) www.mapress.com/zt/article/v...
Two new species of Syllidae (Annelida) from Misaki Bay and Sugashima Island, Japan | Zootaxa
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Just published! Gene expression patterns during reproduction in the remarkable branching annelid Ramisyllis kingghidorahi. What happens at the molecular level when a worm with multiple branches gets ready to reproduce? Find out here: bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Sex-specific differential gene expression during stolonization in the branching syllid Ramisyllis kingghidorahi (Annelida, Syllidae) - BMC Genomics
Background Ramisyllis kingghidorahi (Annelida, Syllidae) is one of few annelid species with a ramified body, one anterior end and hundreds of posterior ends. R. kingghidorahi belongs to the family Syl...
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Check this job advertisement by @mtaguado.bsky.social for a 3-year position, in case you are interested to do your PhD at the @unigoettingen.bsky.social on the amazing branching annelid Ramisyllis www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht...
Prey and prejudice: predation by the European bee-eater Merops apiaster has species-specific effects on the ecology and genetics of bumblebees nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Today is the time to hear this song in repeat #Arminia #WirFahrenNachBerlin youtu.be/9PVI-4myKHM?...
Buttermaker- Arminia Bielefeld
YouTube video by dscJo
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What happened here and who is Johann Friedrich Humboldt? I am curious if MDPI will publish this... www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...
Conserved leucine-rich repeat proteins in the adhesive projectile slime of velvet worms www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Conserved leucine-rich repeat proteins in the adhesive projectile slime of velvet worms | PNAS
The slime of velvet worms (Onychophora) is a protein-based bioadhesive that undergoes rapid, yet reversible transition from a fluid into stiff fibe...
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"Was zum Quant?!" - die neue Sonderausstellung im #ForumWissen der @unigoettingen.bsky.social vermittelt Einblicke in Anfänge der Quantenmechanik in #Göttingen. Ab heute geöffnet! 🔗 Ein schöner Artikel dazu: shorturl.at/wy1wN
Ausstellung zeigt Geschichte der Quantenmechanik
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Unveiling the diversity of gut microbes in green lacewings (Chrysopidae: Neuroptera) and their role as protagonist in nutrition link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Familienaktionstag mit unseren neuen Comic-Helden Pim, Pixel und Piku im Forum Wissen @forumwissen.bsky.social @unigoettingen.bsky.social Sonntag, 23.3., von 10-18 Uhr www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html...
Fundamental questions in meiofauna research highlight how small but ubiquitous animals can improve our understanding of Nature www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Fundamental questions in meiofauna research highlight how small but ubiquitous animals can improve our understanding of Nature - Communications Biology
This paper identifies the top-50 priority questions for meiofaunal research, highlighting their critical roles in biogeochemical cycles and biodiversity. It calls for a balanced research agenda, inter...
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Host ecology and phylogeny shape the temporal dynamics of social bee viromes www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Host ecology and phylogeny shape the temporal dynamics of social bee viromes - Nature Communications
Viromes, or viral communities, may evolve host-specificity. Here, the authors use 100 plant and insect viral sequences to find that plant-pollinator interactions and phenology shape the plant virus co...
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Proportions of aposematic colouration in bees and wasps (Hymenoptera, Aculeata) and their main mimics – hoverflies, clearwing moths and longhorn beetles jhr.pensoft.net/article/1412...htt
An annotated catalog of Annelida types at the Museum of Nature Hamburg, Zoology. Part I: Annelida: Errantia: Aciculata: Eunicida, Myzostomida, Aciculata incertae sedis, and Errantia: Protodriliformia evolsyst.pensoft.net/article/1377...htt
Was sind #Quanten? Die Physik der Quantenmechanik ist allgegenwärtig: in Lasern, Solarzellen & Supermarkt-Kassen. Unsere kommende Sonderausstellung zeichnet die Erforschung quantenphysikalischer Prinzipien nach und blickt bis in die Gegenwart. 📅 27.03 – 5.10.2025 🔗 www.forum-wissen.de/was-zum-quant/
Den eigenen #Garten in ein #Insektenparadies verwandeln?! Mehr dazu im neuen Buch von Michael Schwerdtfeger „Nonplusultrapflanzen“ - präsentiert auf unserem Blog! Dr.Schwerdtfeger stellt sein Buch morgen 27.2.2025, 17h im Forum Wissen @unigoettingen.bsky.social vor! forum-wissen.de/blog/der-sch...
Mit Hochdurchsatzsequenzierung das Biodiversitätsmonitoring ausbauen link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Automatic cell analysis using #AI Researchers retrained existing AI-based software on over 17,000 microscopy images with over 2 million structures to develop this new model - Segment Anything for Microscopy: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html... #NatureMethods research: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Phylogenomics of the rarest animals: a second species of Micrognathozoa identified by machine learning royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
It is amazing to see so many #Morphologists attending #Morpho25 in Kiel. The renaissance of #Morphology is continuing
