New moon 🌚 = new mammals 🐿️
MDD v1.11 is officially up now at https://t.co/TL9SJXEuLd
🐾64 new species recognized (15 de novo, 49 split)
🐾29 synonymizations, 1 removal
🐾36 genus changes
= net increase of 34 to 6,649 accepted mammal spp
(incl the Eastern Mindanao gymnure!)
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Women have always been essential to science, but as NHMU's Vertebrate Collections Manager Katrina Derieg reminds us, we often forget the women behind the scenes of some of the greatest scientific accomplishments in history.
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What happens when fish have more than one sex chromosome? More than two phenotypic sexes! Evolutionary consequences pondered in PNAS. Proud to have worked with @reade_roberts, @fishnotfish, @craig_albertson, Pat Ciccotto, and Melissa Lamm https://t.co/FyQqYY5YnM
Really great symposium and panel discussion today at #ASM2021 on Mammalian Pathobiology and Museums. Need to keep working at integrating museum collections in to emergent pathogen research.