Excited to launch my first foray into NFTs and generative AI. I trained an AI model on cell images to create completely synthetic images and turned these into gifs https://t.co/iEG1BWspwe
New paper in @molecology! Speciation and secondary contact in a fossorial island endemic, the São Tomé caecilian. My first on both caecilians and African faunas. With a dream team of early career evolutionary herpetologists supervised by @RaynaCBell. PDF: https://t.co/aDsuiSKA0l
Catching evolution in action on a small island can help us better understand the ways diverse, wondrous forms of life originate. The new data, published yesterday in the journal Molecular Ecology, will also help with the conservation of São Tomé’s natural heritage.
📸: Dong Lin
@NMNH scientists and fellows have been studying caecilians found on the island of #SãoTomé in the Gulf of Guinea, on the west coast of central Africa. São Tomé caecilians are locally known as “cobra bobo” and can only be found on the island.
📸 @stanbridgefoto
For more than a century, scientists have been debating whether the São Tomé caecilians represent one or more species. Now, through fieldwork on the island and genetic research in the lab, @NMNH scientists have found that the island caecilians represent two different species.
New preprint comparing SNP data from formalin-fixed tissue, allozyme supernatant, & frozen tissue from the same individual #salamanders, & tips for combining RADseq + capture-based SNP datasets #museum#genomics https://t.co/d1pDqQkai4