TEREC

This new publication concludes a first chapter in our study of the causes and consequences of granivory in ants and myrmecophilous silverfish. We combine stable isotope profiling, feeding assays, phylogeny, and microbiome analyses of a broad insect panel doi.org/10.1186/s12915…

Proud to present: 🐟 Chapter 3 of my #PhD --> now available in Science of the Total Environment. Read about how #eDNA metabarcoding can be used to monitor fish communities in the Scheldt estuary! ⚓️ sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @INBOVlaanderen @TEREC_ugent @FWOVlaanderen

Dr Nicky Wybouw @NWybouw will be joining #PEC2024 as our plenary speaker! His lab studies questions in the broader fields of speciation, herbivory, and symbiosis. Within these fields, dr Wybouw studies the molecular-genetic basis of key complex traits such as hybrid dysfunction

We are pleased to show our freshly published review article in the polyploidy special issue of @Oikos_Journal . We review polyploid establishment and show how coexistence theory can help to undertstand it. doi.org/10.1111/oik.09…

Just a few days (until 15 Dec) left to apply for this position!

Nicky Wybouw @NWybouw on symbiosis @ece2023

@Marinasentis shows that biophysical models can accurately predict the energy expenditure of small passerine birds, especially if avian thermoregulatory behavior such as feather fluffing is accounted for. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… first PhD chapter! @CesarePacioni @TEREC_ugent

Amazing talk by @CamilleTroisi on the stopping behaviour of two gull species at Behaviour 2023!! @cobe_lab

One month left to apply!

Out now @HeredityJournal - our study of the underlying mechanisms and relevance of Wolbachia-induced sex allocation distortion (Sd) in haplodiploids! Sd is an often neglected symbiont-mediated reproductive phenotype in haplodiploids and is expressed when females are infected.

Proud to be part of this body of work that was spearheaded by Silke and Yu-Hsien. We identified and characterized an enzyme of an insect herbivore that modulates the green leaf volatiles of its host plant but also plays a key role in its development. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Excellent new work by Bram and colleagues!

We were again blessed with seeing sea sparkle (zeevonk) in our North Sea.

Another successful field biology course for 3d y bachelors completed! Students participated in experimental design, performed their field work independently, and made a video report of their results and conclusions. We also reached our target of identifying 500 species in 5 days!

Zoeken jullie mee naar SPINTMIJTEN in bos, tuin, huis, moestuin of waar dan ook? Neem er een foto van en vul de enquête in op mijntuinlab.be/projects/18/ (het project loopt tot eind september) - graag delen en heel erg bedankt! @BisschopKaren @NWybouw @BonteDries @ellendecaesteck

You can swim, but you can't hide! 🔍🧬🐟 Tonight, I will tell you all about how #eDNA can be used to detect riverine fish @pintofscienceBE See you there! 🍻

Well done Femke!

Thank you @ASNAmNat for this honour, I am really greatful for this recognition! And also thanks to my coauthors @AAlzateVallejo @BonteDries @rampaletienne

Great EVENET initiative!

Neutral processes underlying the macro eco-evolutionary dynamics of mixed-ploidy systems | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.109…