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Posts by Kiran Marathe

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Description of a new genus and species of jumping spider with a striking red face from Thailand: doi.org/10.3897/zook...

#Araneae #biodiversity #phylogenomics @zqtpck.bsky.social @spiderbiologist.bsky.social @waynemaddison.bsky.social

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Phenasurya daeng, a new genus and species of plexippine jumping spider (Salticidae, Plexippini, Plexippina) from Thailand We describe a new plexippine genus and new species, Phenasurya daeng gen. et sp. nov., with a striking red face, from Thailand. Its placement within Plexippina is supported by ultraconserved element (...

Phenasurya daeng, a new genus and species of plexippine jumping spider (Salticidae, Plexippini, Plexippina) from Thailand zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php...

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Add me, please.

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Could you please share the link with me?

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Arachnology students gathered at night for collecting arachnids

Arachnology students gathered at night for collecting arachnids

Are you a student interested in Arachnology? Join our annual virtual student social is happening soon!

🕸️WHEN🕸️
Sunday, June 8, 6:30pm CST

🕸️WHERE🕸️
AAS student Discord

🕸️How to Register🕸️
If you’re not in the student Discord, send us a DM and we will share the link with you.

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Can't recommend this enough for phylogenomic analyses—especially for someone like me who struggles to interpret those 'abstract' (wordy) black-and-green terminal outputs. Try this friendly black-and-green instead!

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The Mesquite icon shown, as a Mesquite leaf against a black background, and as a leave against the sun and a blue sky.

The Mesquite icon shown, as a Mesquite leaf against a black background, and as a leave against the sun and a blue sky.

Mesquite 4 beta released! Many new features, esp. phylogenomic. Check out the trailer and longer video on the home page: www.mesquiteproject.org, and use the download link there to get a copy.

Feedback welcome! Ask and discuss on our new Google Group (groups.google.com/g/mesquite-p...).

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PhyIN: trimming alignments by phylogenetic incompatibilities among neighbouring sites In phylogenomics, regions of low alignment reliability and high noise are typically trimmed from multiple sequence alignments before they are used in phylogenetic inference. I introduce a new trimming...

A new method for trimming alignments in #phylogenomics — PhyIN. It identifies and trims regions with high phylogenetic discord. Able to trim well even on single loci — an advantage for gene tree/species tree studies. #evolbiol #phylogeny 🧪http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18504 Some backstory... 🧵

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One year on, we’ve heard little reaction to our paper conceiving #species as process-bound, historical, and without natural rank. Integrative #taxonomy and #phylogenetics should love the concept; #speciation biology might not, but it could. #evolbio #philbio #philsci #hpbio

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Sunset on Masoala I am looking out over a violet-flowered landscape in Antananarivo as I remember the last blue-and-gold sunset in Masoala.  The beach at Ambodiforaha, nestled in Masoala National Park, faced we…

The first of a series of posts about our field work in Madagascar.

Sunset on Masoala.

waynemaddison.wordpress.com/2024/11/23/s...

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Thank you!

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have you seen the palp and epigyne?

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I was rereading Tinbergen's "On aims and methods of Ethology" this morning and was awakened by this: "It seems to me that...we...will always need naturalists and observers as well as experimenters; we must...not discourage the [person] with a gift for observation."

I have the gift for observation.

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Clarifying the phylogenetic placement of Eupoinae Maddison, 2015 (Araneae, Salticidae) with ultra-conserved element data The subfamily Eupoinae Maddison, 2015 is an enigmatic group of minute leaf-litter-dwelling jumping spiders from Southeast Asia. Although previous molecular phylogenetic studies have suggested that it ...

Clarifying the phylogenetic placement of Eupoinae Maddison, 2015 (Araneae, Salticidae) with ultra-conserved element data doi.org/10.3897/zook... via @ZooKeys_Journal

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With the discovery of Tenkana jayamangali, our knowledge of jumping spider diversity has become a bit richer! (doi.org/10.3897/zook...)

And oh, by the way, belated Happy International Jumping Spider Day!

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Iranattus rectangularis, known only from a male specimen from Iran, is now reported in India, including a female specimen.

*(collage) figure from the paper.

Read more here: zse.pensoft.net/article/1220...

1 year ago 1 1 0 0

I am convinced that the obsession with lawn grass in North America is an oil and gas lobby. The energy consumption involved in growing it and mowing it when it grows is redundant. And I’m not counting the energy used in processes surrounding the core objective!

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@waynemaddison.bsky.social

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The male is on the left, and the female is on the right.

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Ghatippus paschima, a new species and genus of plexippine jumping spider from the Western Ghats of India (Salticidae, Plexippini, Plexippina) We propose a new genus of plexippine jumping spiders from the Western Ghats of India based on the new species Ghatippus paschima gen. et sp. nov. While it bears a superficial resemblance to Pancorius ...

I can't think of a better way to celebrate Darwin's Day! Introducing Ghatippus paschima, a new plexippine jumping spider from the Western Ghats of India! For more: zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1141...

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