The May 2026 issue of the Zoologica Scripta (55:3) compiles exciting papers on animal taxa ranging from varunid crabs to the Bar-tailed Lark. The featured paper by da Zhao et al. uses degraded genetic material from museum specimens and addresses various methodological issues.
Enjoy the reading.
Upcoming Saturday at 9:30 there will be edition #184 of Ekebergsletta parkrun in Oslo. Looking forward to meeting the crowd.
www.parkrun.no/ekebergsletta/
#parkrun
Niemand weiß so viel über Saitenwürmer wie Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa. Der Biologe hat schon etliche neue Arten entdeckt – und fünf nach seinen Kindern benannt.
The paper by Zhao et al. 'The Phylogenetic Position of the Extinct Hawaiian Honeyeaters: Overcoming the Limitations of Historical DNA' has been selected as featured article of issue 55:3 of the Zoological Scripta.
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#zoologicascripta @wileyecology.bsky.social
Now the paper entitled 'Tracing the Drivers of Range-Wide Bowhead Whale Genomic Structure and Diversity' by Westbury et al. has been published in Molecular Ecology. You can find it at: doi.org/10.1111/mec....
Enjoy the reading !!!
#bowheadwhales #marinemammals @mick2474.bsky.social
Thank you very much Siobhan Webb for contributing the run report that you can find at www.parkrun.no/ekebergslett...
!!! Many thanks to all volunteers that made this possible !!!
Just finished 'Irans moderne historie' by Hulda Kjeang Mørk. An easy to read introduction that I can highly recommend to those that wish to learn more about the country than what we use to hear in the day to day news. (the book is in Norwegian)
#bookrecommendation #history