AmphibiaGen harnesses genomics to identify amphibian species & populations at risk of extinction, & to design & implement conservation actions to recover them.
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EXCITING BONUS: This paper presents the first published reference genome for the remarkable tailed frog (Ascaphus truei) from the U.S. Pacific Northwest. Along with its closest living relatives, New Zealand's Leiopelma, it is the most basal lineage of all living frogs!
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Hiring a postdoc to work on @NSF-funded polyploid salamander genomics/evolution. ~$55k/year, 3 years, teaching opportunities built in. Start as early as May 2024.
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Congratulations to @Marc_Kouete, @MollyBletz, @b_labumbard, and @davidcblackburn on their discovery that mother caecilians not only feed their young with their skin, but also pass on their microbiome! Caecilians are mind-bogglingly cool. nytimes.com/2023/10/17/scien…
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Are the genetic indicators of the Global Biodiversity Framework feasible? Yes.
Pre-print out. And THREAD! of major results:
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Despite the sobering results of the #GAA2, there is growing evidence that conservation efforts are positively impacting amphibians. The extinction risk of at least 63 species has been reduced, mostly due to improved protection and management of their habitats.
📸:Cybele Lisboa.
ALT The adult male of Alcatraz Snouted Treefrog Ololygon alcatraz sits on a leaf with a green background.
A huge thanks to the authors of this incredibly important paper on the status of and threats to global amphibian biodiversity for all of their hard work in pulling it together. This information is essentially for guiding amphibian conservation actions.
Let's do a row call 😁
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Esp. (Agregue el nombre de cualquiera de los más de 100 coautores de nuestro artículo sobre la disminución global de anfibios).
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ALT Adult Müller’s Mushroom-tongue Salamander, Bolitoglossa mulleri . Shot by Todd Pierson.
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Let's do a row call 😁
Add/Quote the name(s) of any of the 100+ scientists on our paper here 👉🏾 go.nature.com/48FXW7R
Esp. (Agregue el nombre de cualquiera de los más de 100 coautores de nuestro artículo sobre la disminución global de anfibios).
We'll start @simonstuartSE
ALT Adult Müller’s Mushroom-tongue Salamander, Bolitoglossa mulleri . Shot by Todd Pierson.
This study highlights an exciting example a potential conservation action that works for boosting amphibian populations that have been hammered by Bd. Science such as this that demonstrates successful conservation actions for amphibians are incredibly important.
In this week's inaugural launch of AmphibiaGen's "'Phib Friday," we feature an exciting new preprint showing evolutionary rescue in response to Bd, and the effectiveness of using Bd-resistant source populations for recovery of Mountain-yellow legged frogs: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
ALT Mountain yellow-legged frog (Photo: National Park Service)
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We are hiring #postdoc to join #GalapaGenomes to sequence/assemble whole genomes of Galapagos species from museum (aDNA) and modern samples. Bay Area/SF work @SFStateBIO @calacademy
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The spectacular white-faced ibis with its colorful purple, crimson, teal and gold feathers and ruby-red eyes is sure to brighten your day!
Photo at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge in Utah courtesy of Leslie Scopes Anderson
ALT A tall, colorful bird with purple, crimson, teal and gold feathers cleans itself with its long beak.
Critical thermal maximum (CTmax) has been criticized as being a poor metric of responses to ecologically realistic temperature increases in a warming world. As shown in this paper by @AmandaCicchino, @CGhalambor, and @fieldgenomics, a cold-water frog species tells us otherwise...
New from @AmandaCicchino @fieldgenomics @CGhalambor in #BiologyLetters - Linking critical thermal maximum to mortality from thermal stress in a cold-water frog ow.ly/61pL50OOqRG #ecophysiology #frog #thermalstress #evolution
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New article alert! We investigated variation in body shape and calls in a gladiator treefrog 🐸, and why calls 🎵 vary within the species. It turns out they vary due to sexual selection, and not due to adaptation to the environment or genetic drift!🧬
And...stay tuned, as this is just the first in a series of recently accepted papers by Dr. @AmandaCicchino that dive deep into thermal limits and climate change vulnerability in the world's coolest frog, Ascaphus!!!
Interested in organismal responses to climate change? If so, you should check out this paper by Dr. @AmandaCicchino. Turns out, understanding intraspecific variation in thermal limits is KEY for predicting spatial vulnerability to climate change. @SICB_ @CSU_Ecology
Interested in how thermal landscapes -> organismal thermal limits -> vulnerability to climate change?
Check out our paper in Freshwater Biology - we investigated these relationships between and *within* 2 cold-water frog species! 🐸
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