Braasch Lab @ Michigan State University

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Lobe-finned, gene hunting garfishionados & proud members of the tetrapod fishes.

Read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

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It’s hard to imagine that this stunningly beautiful larval-stage cardinalfish will metamorphose into one of the most average, common, and most overlooked fish of Bali’s reefs. In other locations, this would be a once-in-a-lifetime prize find on any blackwater dive, but here in Bali, it’s common-ish

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OTD in 1881, Charles Darwin published his last book, on earthworms.

It reflected a long interest in animal minds: “One alternative alone is left, namely, that worms, although standing low in the scale of organization, possess some degree of intelligence.”

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Caricature by Edward Linley Sambourne from Punch in 1882 titled “Man is but a Worm,” depicting human evolution, commencing with Chaos, through worm, monkey, culminating in Darwin himself.
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OTD in 1836, HMS Beagle docked at Falmouth, after a 5 year voyage.

Charles Darwin wrote in his diary, “To my surprise and shame, I confess the first sight of the shores of England inspired me with no warmer feelings, than if it had been a miserable Portuguese settlement.”

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Watercolor of HMS Beagle at anchor by Owen Stanley
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Well, happy Charles Darwin is “very poorly today & very stupid & hate[s] everybody & everything” to all who celebrate, because he wrote those words in a letter to his friend (and author of Principles of Geology) Charles Lyell 161 years ago today

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Thomas Hunt Morgan was born OTD in 1866.

If you're ever feeling that your work is uending and unedifying, remember that he once said this: "Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it."

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Photograph of Morgan's Fly Room at Columbia University, around 1920. American Philosophical Society.
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In my latest story for the Smithsonian, I was lucky enough to get to know the American paddlefish – a threatened fish that predates the dinosaurs and has incredible sensory capabilities thanks to its long snoot.

s.si.edu/4y7NGS7

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I hate to do this with real data, but this is a persistent data vis issue in chromosome synteny riparian plots that we Need to get better at. Left, a synteny plot published today. Right, a rearranged version with exactly the same gross arrangement but with reordered chromosomes:

chromosome synteny riparian plot in which every chromosome has crossing lineschromosome synteny plot in which no chromosomes have crossing lines. The underlying structure is identical.
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#MSU labs. If you haven't seen it, new warning from IPF about possible power surge sometime between midnight and 3 am. Unplug sensitive equipment if not on surge protector! I'll copy email below.

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