Two postdoctoral research associate positions available in my lab as part of a NOAA collaboration: meiofauna metabarcoding and shellfish genomics. See faculty.washington.edu/lhauser/wordpr… for details.

For all zoology fans, Hakai Magazine published a brilliant series of articles on the meiofauna. One handful of marine sediment contains representatives of more animal phyla than an entire tropical rainforest. Here's the first article in the series: buff.ly/2GX2SHU

Here's that meaty, meiofauna tome. Jam-packed with info. Do yourself a favour and get it.

Tardígrado é a fofofauna da meiofauna (= bicho pequeno mas não microscópico) ❤️

In anticipation of #WormWednesday metabarcoding shows diversity of meiofauna in Swedish beaches. 1639 animal species (MOTUs) in 6.5 litres of sand! Lots of worms - including undescribed species. bdj.pensoft.net/article/51813/

Few know this (even some colleagues), but deep-sea habitats in central Peru host incredible fauna living under an intense oxygen minimum zone (and this time I'm not talking about micro- and meiofauna). The Johnson submersible exhibited some examples in 1992 (a long time ago).

Finally, I can say it out loud! I'm delighted to announce that we have a two years project, my first as IP, to study #meiofauna of the Balearic Islands #taxonomy #barcoding #humanimpact Marta García-Cobo Alberto González-Casarrubios Alejandro Martínez García

Some #nematodemadness on Monday! Here is a little pun for you: Who knows those two beauties?
Btw they are from the same #meiofauna sample from #Elba where I found the #Epsilonematid .
#marine #nematodes #taxonomy #phylogeny

Praia linda né... sabe quem mora ai, nas zonas de marés, entre os grãos de areia?

A Meiofauna! Uma comunidade de ~25 filos de invertebrados, menores que 0.5mm, responsáveis por importantes processos ecológicos nos ecossistemas de praias. Esse é um espécime do filo Nematoda.

Miniature beach ball from the northern Adriatic Sea: a brightly coloured, agile pontarachnid water mite (perhaps Pontarachna adriatica?) from the #meiofauna of coastal waters. Still poorly known group of mites, either from gut content or gill filaments of fishes. #Invertebrates

Another paper out in a month! A review on #DNAmetabarcoding of #meiofauna ! Thanks to the preciuos reviewers from Frontiers - Marine Science and all the coauthors! Romy Gielings DiegoFontaneto Simon Creer ME-BARCODE Willem Renema Jan Macher 🧬🧬🧬
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How much does one tiny #nematode respire? 🪱🔬🌊 Have a look at the great effort by #PhD student @AdeleMa6, Oleksandr Holovachov 🇺🇦 & co. now online in Methods in Ecology and Evolution!!

👉doi.org/10.1111/2041-2…👈

#meiofauna #oxygen #hypoxia #microsensor #Diffusion

#MarineMicroEilat2021 course day 2 - looking for chemosynthetic meiofauna

Somebody was hungry. A nematode sitting comfortably inside a flatworm gut.
#DISL #meiofauna #sweatthesmallstuff

Finishing some terrific few days of #meiofauna hunting, with tiny creatures, awesome people and a really nice office view!!

Ending a successful collaborative trip to Val d’Aran (Pyrenees) by UCPH Biologisk Institut, UiT Norges arktiske universitet Tromsø, Universitat de Barcelona & Museum of Comparative Zoology to confirm an eDNA discovery of a former exclusively polar phylum #Micrognathozoa #meiofauna Owen S. Wangensteen Peter Rask Møller Gonzalo Giribet Sandra Garcés Pastor

This nematode is ready to change its suit! Soil nematode molting from Katwijk (The Netherlands), in the #beach #meiofauna workshop Naturalis Biodiversity Center

New paper describes extreme new biodiversity in subterranean springtails (Hexapoda, Collembolla) from deep soil at calcrete aquifers in the arid zone of Western Australia #meiofauna #troglofauna . Genome, doi.org/10.1139/gen-20…

Let's have freshwater acoels for this #WormWednesday ;] Oligochoerus limnophilus from slow flowing part of Elbe river. #meiofauna #Acoela #zoology #microscopy

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Your answers are appreciated even if you are not a meiofauna expert!!
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