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“Sloths’ ancestors may have crossed Atlantic”
by Chris Bunting, Senior Press Officer The family tree of the largest group of mammals—those that nourish their young with placentas—divided later than scientists previously thought, according to a new study. The findings show that one of the great mammal lineages—the xenartha group, which includes armadillos, sloths and anteaters and is today found only in…
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EMBO phylogenomics course in the Amazon
I had the tremendous pleasure of teaching a very talented and motivated bunch of students on an EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organisation) funded course. The course was delivered in the amazon jungle city of Iquitos Peru, the largest jungle city in the world unconnected by road to the rest of the world. It was…
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Dr O’Connell becomes Associate Editor for GBE
Dr O’Connell has been invited to the board of associate editors for Genome Biology and Evolution (GBE). GBE is an Oxford University Press journal owned by the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, and is in the top ten evolutionary biology journals internationally and has an impact factor of 4.2. “I feel honoured to have been…
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