I want to
start off by saying that everyone should now be able to make a comment with or
without an account. I have also put a survey on the website and some ratings on
each post, please feel free to comment with questions and rate so that I can improve
my posts, I wont bite!
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| Really, I wont bite! |
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| Linux penguin, Tux |
This week
started off with some great new that I had officially been accepted onto the
PhD program. Now I bet a lot of you are asking, having you already been working
for around 2 months and you were not officially accepted? Nope, not until this Monday
where I found out that the project plan that I told you all about last week had
been accepted. So now not only am I an employee for Nord university I am also a
student (yes I know that sounds strange)!
During this
week of work my energy was very low, this is because I am temporarily a single
parent for the next few weeks, however I have been getting work done as best as
I can. Most of the week consisted of reading and I have nearly covered most of
the literature on my specific topic. I was also preparing my computer for the
course I will be going on in two weeks time near Gothenburg. I had to install
several bioinformatic programs along with installing a virtual computer so that
I could run Linux on my Windows PC.
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| larval fish(mimics) mimicking jellyfish/gelatinous larvae (models) (Greer et al. 2016) . |
This week
was also time for another journal club, with this week’s presentation being
done by Amalia Mailli on the paper “Larval fishes utilize Batesian mimicry as a
survival strategy in the plankton” (Greer et
al. 2016). Batesian mimicry is a
form of mimicry where a harmless species has evolved to imitate the warning signs
of a harmful species for protection from predation. In this paper, they looked
at larval fish(mimics) mimicking jellyfish/gelatinous larvae (models) for
protection (See image). The jellyfish larvae are poisonous to predator fish and will be
avoided, so the mimics are protected from predation. There are many crazy different
examples and is almost as interesting as hybridization. There is so much more I
could talk about on this topic but due to my low energy levels I believe it is
best to keep it short, instead I will link some interesting sites at the bottom
of this post.
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| One of the many interesting examples of Batesian mimicry, one which I have always thought about as a child, the hover fly and the wasps! 1- German Wasp, 2 - Hoverfly, 3 - Hoverfly, 4 - Wasp Beetle, 5 - Sawfly, 6 - Hoverfly. http://alexhyde.photoshelter.com/image/I0000fkOVUVljQXg |
Finally, in
my free time I have been working to improve my scientific writing and my
portfolio. It is a piece of side work that I am hoping to submit for an Evolutionary
Digest and once my work has been submitted I will go into more details. Once
again, thank you so much for everyone who is reading my posts, please comment
and leave feedback, I would very much like to hear what you think, but until
next week, I hope you all have a great one!
Interesting
sites:
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