Colour patterning in #ladybirds 🐞 from @RNattier @ISYEB_UMR #phylogeny with DNA 🧬 sequencing from #museum specimens #EntSoc19 #Entsoc2019

#EntSoc2019 keynote Erica McAlister @flygirlNHM starts with noting she works in the best museum in the world @NHM_London, beautiful building too #entomology #Diptera

Changes in brain microRNAs are associated with social evo... Evolutionary transitions to a social lifestyle in insects...

#Entsoc2019 Karen Kapheim @KapheimLab miRNAs potentially regulating transcript levels in different social contexts https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/730317v2 #bee #genome #regulation

Jennifer Jandt @TheWaspLady Why are wasps so angry? #Entsoc2019 Variable nest defence responses #Vespula

Hongmei Li-Byarlay @Insect_Sciences DNA methylation and social behaviours 🐝 #Entsoc2019

Anna Childers "Your #genome does not exist unless it is on NCBI" #Entsoc2019 Community matters! 🐞🧬👨‍💻👩‍💻🧬🦋

1/2 #EntSoc2019 so far @EBPgenome from Kevin Hackett, @PacBio from Jonas Korlach, gene function prediction from Fiona McCarthy, #ecological #genomics from Luciano Matzkin, adaptive #species radiations from Julian Dupuis, #beetle diversity genomics from Duane McKenna, ...

#EntSoc2019 now @marakat from @darwintreelife at #genome #assembly #annotation session @EntsocAmerica 200 species 'in process' = extracting and sequencing, with many more to come!