PhD student at Michigan State’s Kellogg Biological Station researching spotted turtle phylogeography and the evolution of temperature-dependent sex determination
Caleb Krueger
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postdoc alert 🚨! NIH-funded postdoc in my lab to work on Ancestral Recombination Graphs in space. Please spread the word widely in your networks, and please reach out if you're interested! (2-3yr position, start date flexible, pay/benefits good!).
details here: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
So begins the year of the spotted turtle!
Next up is my defense on the 26th. All are welcome, just let me know if you want the zoom link!
Walter was displeased that I asked him to sit so close to this big lady map turtle
Today’s running buddies:
Beautiful. Big news if you’re interested in identifying and compiling sex-determining mechanisms like me!
Such a perfect little creature.
I rarely get to see musk turtles in Michigan. They spend most of their time walking along the bottom of vegetated ponds and lakes, but sometimes I get lucky this time of year and find one warming up and foraging in shallow water like this lady.
How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications.
My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/
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Reptiles with longer Wikipedia pages tend to be bigger. The relationship is a power law with exponent = 0.85. I guess humans really like writing about big lizards? The longest article is the Komodo Dragon.
~15 years after we published the first chelonian genome (Chrysemys picta), I'm going back to my turtle roots! We now have an excellent assembly, annotation, & evo-history study for the spotted turtle (Clemmys guttata), led by the amazing @cheloevo.bsky.social, out in JOH: doi.org/10.1093/jher...
Our paper on turtle origins is finally out in Current Biology, with two major implications for our understanding of reptile evolution 🐢
#Paleontology #Turtles #Evolution
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Multiple positions available: Postdoc PhD students
Replicating previous research builds confidence that results are real and meaningful. But close replications are rare due to limitations in resources and d
Abstract. The spotted turtle (Clemmys guttata) is the sole extant member of the genus Clemmys and can be found in shallow wetlands across eastern North Ame
Happy to announce two-fold news!
1) The SCINKD paper is now published in @molbioevol.bsky.social - doi.org/10.1093/molb...
2) SCINKD [v2.2.4] release has reduced runtimes (about 2x) and the revitalized mode for genomes >5Gb is now live and tested on genomes up to 21Gb! 🐸 github.com/DrPintoThe2n...
Abstract. In most animal species, the sex-determining pathway is typically initiated by the presence/absence of a primary genetic cue at a critical point d
~15 years after we published the first chelonian genome (Chrysemys picta), I'm going back to my turtle roots! We now have an excellent assembly, annotation, & evo-history study for the spotted turtle (Clemmys guttata), led by the amazing @cheloevo.bsky.social, out in JOH: doi.org/10.1093/jher...
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Abstract. The spotted turtle (Clemmys guttata) is the sole extant member of the genus Clemmys and can be found in shallow wetlands across eastern North Ame
