Amanda Markee

Today, the USDA lost experts in Psylloidea, Thysanoptera, Cerambycidae, Hymenoptera, Pseudococcidae, and Malacology. This is a devastating loss of expertise, occuring without warning. Their union's official statement on the issue can be found here: aginspectors.org/2-14-2025-a-... #entomology 🧪

14.02.2025 21:30 — 👍 224    🔁 116    💬 6    📌 12

Hibiscus mealybug damage on citrus fruit

Close up of female with wax egg case (top left) male (top right) and illustrations of both (bottom)

Excited to announce another genome preprint! This one is first-authored by my first master's student, Tracy!

We generated a chromosome level genome for the invasive hibiscus mealybug, a citrus crop pest.
Thanks to coauthors
@lmdiepenbrock.bsky.social @kkbugtime.bsky.social

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14.02.2025 15:37 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Unraveling the genetics of underwater caddisfly silk Hundreds of thousands of arthropod species use silk to capture prey, build protective structures, or anchor eggs. While most silk-producers are terrestrial, caddisflies construct silken capture nets a...

Our review on caddisfly silk genetics is out in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social. We’re excited about new developments in the field and we were stoked to have the chance to cover them in a review. We hope it is useful resource for people interested! www.cell.com/trends/genet...

03.02.2025 19:13 — 👍 22    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 1

Local synteny visualization of 3 species and 4 homologous groups.

Local synteny visualization of 5 accessions of beans, highlighting an array of TIR-NBS-LRR genes in this region.

A workflow for Tidyverse-based local synteny visualization: Good for visualizing local synteny across species, genotypes, or acorss regions of a genome. Can be used to showcase copy number variation. Still need to write the tutorial, but will be on my GitHub soon. #Genomics #DataVisualization

10.12.2024 20:14 — 👍 75    🔁 22    💬 3    📌 2

Genome report: Genome sequence of tuliptree scale, Toumeyella liriodendri (Gmelin), an ornamental pest insect Abstract. Scale insects are of interest both to basic researchers for their unique reproductive biology and to applied researchers for their pest status. I

Reposting because the final version finally came out and there are way more people on the site now. To you it might just be a genome note, to me it's the first fully Mongue lab paper (feat. @erincpow.bsky.social and @kkbugtime.bsky.social )!

A #newPI milestone!

academic.oup.com/g3journal/ar...

12.12.2024 00:00 — 👍 22    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0

crafting up my actual academic legacy this week… aka planning on finally competing with my lab in the entomology games after six years of saying “i’ll do it next year for sure” lol

05.12.2024 18:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

a hand holding a tube mounted on a metal bar, with a ct-scanning instrument in the background

a photo of the internal camera of a ct-scanning instrument, with a peace sign and lots of smiles as her sample gets ready to scan!!

ct-scanning samples for my second chapter on silk gland morphology today 😈 a month of staining later, let’s hope this round works 🤞

05.12.2024 18:44 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A color pencil and marker drawing of an Arthropleura, stylized so it fits in a square shape. It is mostly orange and yellow creams with some contrasting blue tones.

I also drew this guy today! #colorpencil #drawing

24.11.2024 02:49 — 👍 3409    🔁 882    💬 54    📌 7

Whole-genome assembly and annotation of the firecracker penstemon (Penstemon eatonii) Abstract. The penstemons are ornamental annual flowering plants native to the Intermountain West and Rocky Mountains and commonly used for urban landscapin

Our publication on the genomics of the firecracker penstemon is out. This was the result of a two-semester graduate class that I co-taught with David Jarvis. We wanted to sequence something meaningful to the western US, so we chose a penstemon species. doi.org/10.1093/jher...

19.11.2024 00:38 — 👍 21    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

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18.11.2024 16:42 — 👍 17    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

two scientists bent down next to a rock looking at a hole that a spider probably lives in

seven folks standing on a desert hill in front of a cactus, selfie style

a hand next to a spiky cholla cactus (irresponsibly)

a shadow of a heart symbol surrounding a botfly on a gravel floor

missing everything about the desert (minus my dry sinuses) 🥲 so excited for EntSoc2025 to be in the PNW next year!!

18.11.2024 00:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

this will make three Ware Lab hellgrammite tats and counting (excited to be triplets with you) 🙂‍↕️

18.11.2024 00:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

hi friends ❣️ i finally made the switch to bluesky. my name is amanda, im an entomologist and evolutionary biologist currently in nyc getting my phd at the american museum of natural history. i love critters, my community, and to be on my computer doing -omics things. lets b friends ٩( ᐛ )و

17.11.2024 01:19 — 👍 28    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

is this thing on 🎤

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