"The wood-feeding cockroach S. taiwanensis forms monogamous pairs following a unique mating behaviour, ‘mutual wing-eating’, during which partners consume each other’s wings..." - Haruka Osaki, Kensei Kikuchi, Nathan Lo
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
If i remember correctly, the machine learning model evird uses to estimate changes in abundance take user experience into account
I love ILS
This is the closest example I could dig up: academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...
Can't help much then lol. Good luck!
Ecological population modeling or genetic population modeling?
Although, there is also hybrid reinforcement where two species freely interbreed but the hybrids just dont reproduce well. In that case it seems like something more than just behavior is keeping them apart?
Well I'm coming around to the realization that most speciation in animals starts with populations that "choose" to not interbreed with each other despite being technically compatible.
So totally defensible to say that speciation in animals often starts as a behavior, at least
Aha, so perhaps the new world warblers are more ecologically dissimilar from each other than we thought.
Oh god
I have too lol
Incomplete lineage sorting kinda destroyed my trust my barcode delimitation though, haha
5% coi divergence. No exceptions.
Even better, an expression giving the precise definition of a species. Would save me some time
Do you have an equation for how biology works yet
I would love to see these methods applied to Tully Monster fossils! Maybe we would be able to actually determine whether they possessed a notochord.
defer the review to me, mwahaha
ignore that I probably don't know whatever subfield it's in
Isnt this the era where they still thought most species had almost no genetic diversity lol
Any interesting species in there yet?
A tiny black hemipteran nymph, with a very stubby body
Does anyone know what this Hemipteran nymph from west Texas could be? It was extremely tiny and fast
Huh, interesting.
Hahaha
Wait is Archeopteryx classified within Aves? I thought it was a separate thing but I actually dk
Excuse my unreasonable pedantry, but it is still not a crown bird ☺️
Sincerely,
Someone who felt like being annoying today
Ok! Makes sense. I assumed Sanger but wanted to check (im trying to do WGS with small bugs)
What kind of quality/yield can you get from the legs?
Let me know how that goes! My research isnt collection & monitoring explicitly, but i do a lot of casual collecting that would be cool to analyze
Gotcha. I've been seeing your stuff and wondering if I can somehow use the same analyses myself
Is this package theoretically usable for any museum database? Or is it reliant on stuff being from Turku?
I think my issue is that I get interested by a lot of different papers and then can't read all of them at once, haha
I have a question for more senior academics then me: how do you read the literature? Like the keeping-up-with-the-field reading.
After reading through 2-3 papers my brain gets really tired and its hard to read another one that day.
Is the answer practice? Skimming? Or maybe 2-3 a day is fine?
