@nature_nik

Researcher in Insect Genetics and Systematics – Flesh Flies – Blow Flies – Phylogenomics

 Sydney, New South Wales
Joined November 2018
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If you like BIG trees and SMALL flies - read on! This paper has been a long time coming (almost 10 years)! Here we use AHE to revise the entire Miltogramminae subfamily - including some BIG taxonomic changes. resjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…

Anchored phylogenomics and revised classification of the Miltogramminae (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)

Anchored hybrid enrichment facilitates the creation of a highly supported phylogenetic hypothesis for the Miltogramminae containing 60% of the currently recognised genera from all biogeographic...

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Thanks @biostarhandbook for bringing a smile to my work day. Look at all this #!/#$ data! A helpful hint for eyeballing FASTQ files that I'll never forget. #Bioinformatics
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Damien Esquerre@DamienEsquerre17 Oct 2023
I am pleased to announce a three year position at the University of Wollongong ⁦@UOW⁩ to come and work with me on venom, phenotypic, ecological and lineage diversification and evolution of snakes and teach evolution. Contact me if interested! uow.edu.au/about/jobs/jobs-a…
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Anchored phylogenomics and revised classification of the Miltogramminae (Diptera: Sarcophagidae): doi.org/10.1111/syen.12609 #OpenAccess #Diptera #Sarcophagidae #Phylogenomics #Systematics #Taxonomy
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So happy to be involved with this fantastic project, and to find a #newspecies of fly (featured in the vid)! This kind of collab between schools and scientists is the future of ento! Watch “Insect Investigators 2021-2023” by @InsectInvestig8 @ErinnFJ vimeo.com/838913017?ref=tw-s…

Insect Investigators 2021-2023

A snapshot of the citizen science project Insect Investigators. Find out more at https://insectinvestigators.com.au

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More insect cosplay 🎉🐝🪲. This beetles bee mimicry is amazing! @AshWhiffin instagram.com/p/CuPlzGhqiv9/…

Ash Whiffin (@ash_whiffin) • Instagram photos and videos

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ONTbarcoder 2.0: Real-time DNA barcoding with MinION´s R10.4. Now you can find out what species are in your sample, while you are still sequencing. Get more and better barcodes faster than ever. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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When your cosplay is on point 🪰🥰#entomology #cosplay
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Great to see some upclose photography of an often maligned fly. You can see why the family name Calliphoridae means "beauty bearer"! #entomology #fly
Thorben Danke
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Green bottle fly 🪰 …bzzzz #fly #fliege #diptera
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Diversity of damselflies
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Guidelines on writing statistical methods for ecologists. Source: doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4539
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I love the common name "Fairy Fly" for this group of cute flies!
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Great project to be involved in! Despite being restricted to highly fragmented rainforests, Australian rainforest blowflies show no population structure.
Nathan Butterworth@Butterworthbugs12 Feb 2023
New paper! Invertebrates are the backbone of rainforest ecosystems. But how genetically diverse are their populations? link.springer.com/article/10…
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Nathan Butterworth@Butterworthbugs15 Dec 2022
What is an ephemeral resource patch? How do their dynamics drive evolution and shape ecosystems? We discuss these questions in our new review! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

The ephemeral resource patch concept

Ephemeral resource patches (ERPs) – short lived resources including dung, carrion, temporary pools, rotting vegetation, decaying wood, and fungi – are found throughout every ecosystem. Their short-...

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💩💩 Fly feces can be used to evaluate biodiversity and detect endangered species. Crazy! 💩💩
Rudolf Meier @rudolf-meier.bsky.soci@RudolfMeier158 Dec 2022
Now out in Molecular Ecology: Metabarcoding of dissolved feces from flies baited with fish detects endangered mammal and bird species. Roadside sampling and sequencing with #MinION or #Illumina is sufficient. Network analysis reveals species interactions. doi.org/10.1111/mec.16767
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Dr Jon Finch@JtdFinch8 Dec 2022
They're as unique as platypus and koalas. Nobody knows why they seem to be disappearing - ABC News with ⁦@TanyaLatty⁩ apple.news/AAFaqDoOyS025EvSW…

They're as unique as platypus and koalas. Nobody knows why they seem to be disappearing

It's a question entomologists have been asked for years, and this summer they hope to finally get an answer.

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New research! Automatic pipelines can extract and annotate mitogenomes from low coverage genskim data (<1X)! This data is integrated with morphology to explore cluster fly phylogeny. If you like genomics or diptera genital morphology – check it out. tinyurl.com/3vyz6tt9
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Haylee Weaver@hayleejw23 Nov 2022
Australian #taxonomy friends, the National Taxonomy #Research #Grant Program round is OPEN NOW! Applications close 18 Jan, all details via business.gov.au/ntrgp
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Gökhan Tolun@gokhan_tolun26 Sep 2022
Our latest #CryoEM structure is now out in @NatureComms as an #OpenAccess article. Thanks much @newingtimothy, @jodi_brewster, @LucyFitschen @UOWcryoEM, @nature_nik, @haibo_yu for all your hard work and perseverance. @MolHorizons, @uowresearch, @UOW nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

Redβ177 annealase structure reveals details of oligomerization and λ Red-mediated homologous DNA...

Nature Communications - Redβ annealase catalyses single-strand annealing homologous DNA recombination. Here, the authors present a cryo-EM structure of a Redβ annealing intermediate bound...

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