@msumuseum.bsky.social Garla tonight. Need to represent!
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An emerald bowfin
Happy St. Patrick’s Day 🍀 from the emerald bowfin!
It’s not easy being green! How does it do it? We don’t know for sure, but suspect it is biliverdin. More research in the works… 🧪
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Holosteans for the win! Happy to have contributed.
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#OTD 10 years ago we published the spotted #gar genome. 600+ citations later, we are proud of its impact on vertebrate genomics. @jpostlethwait.bsky.social
Check out the new assemblies generated with @vertebrategenomes.bsky.social
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/gen...
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Thanks @patyschneider22.bsky.social for a wonderful visit to @michiganstateu.bsky.social and a great talk in our #EEB seminar series! Check out her lab’s recent preprint on the four-eyed fish retina: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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And of course, the gang had to check out the new @msumuseum.bsky.social exhibit on fish X-ray vision diversity. All three main lineages of “fishes” on one wall, what more can you ask for? Ray, coelacanth, and yours garly represent. 🐟🐠🐡
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Our Fish EvoDevoGeno Lab @michiganstateu.bsky.social has its 10th anniversary today! 🐠🐟🧪🧬🔬
Thanks to all lab members - present & past, pictured or not - for making the last decade a success!
& thanks to our partners in crime of the @brainyfishguts.bsky.social Lab, too!
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When at #SICB2026, check out Tony Zhou's @zzhou32.bsky.social talk on developmental multi-omics in the "living fossil" spotted gar on Monday.
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Hello #fish 🐟 🐠 researchers and PIs of tomorrow! We would be excited to sponsor you for an Ecology, Evolution and Behavior (EEB) Presidential #Postdoc Fellowship application @michiganstateu.bsky.social. Application deadline is Nov 10, so get in touch soom!
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For no reason in particular, a reminder how weird eel biology is...
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Let me tell you what we do.
(But I’m running out of power soon…)
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Quote of the Day,
as found in "Comparative Vertebrate and Human Anatomy: Ecology, Evolution, and Function"
pressbooks.palni.org/comparativev...
Check it out - looks great!
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Strong presence of the #BeeGee Labs @fishevodevogeno.bsky.social @brainyfishguts.bsky.social at the @michiganstateu.bsky.social MidSure Conference: Great work, Isabella, Ian, and Treyton!
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#GoGreen
Great times!
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EvoDevotees, if you are at #PASEDB2025 and interested in either of these job opportunities for Fish Facility Manager or Presidential Postdoc at Michigan State U, let’s grab a coffee and chat
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@evodevopanam.bsky.social
#Zebrafish folks, don’t leave #IZFC2025 just yet! The most fun session is still to come…
Excited to present with @param-p-singh.bsky.social, @mydennis.bsky.social, Hannah Grunwald, Yansong Lu, and Ji-Feng Fei.
See you there!
@izfs.bsky.social
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Link to job description flyer can be found here:
tinyurl.com/s3kd7abr
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Paddlefish, 14 days old, gut with spiral valve at the end nicely filled
Sampling done!
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#Polyodon
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Paddlefish with facial “hair”, 9 days old
Hyperactive #Polyodon - one week old
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Paddlefish, hatched, 6 days old, smiling at the camera
By the way: Nobody called us "Anti-Fish" either...
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Happy New Year! At the beginning of 2025, may we present the #Holstein #Gar! This is a mosaic #CRISPR knock out spotted gar mutant for the slc45a2 gene, also known as aim1, matp, or OCA4 in humans. Generated with generous support from #NSF EDGE.
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Thanks @solomonrdavid.bsky.social and @garlab.bsky.social for hosting me! And also thanks to @kassthefish.bsky.social for the help! Shortnose gar (Lepisosteus platostomus) sampling for #garnomics: check!✅ Who’s next? #EndlessFishMostBeautiful