Ben Matthews
@benmatthewslab.bsky.social
Mosquito Lab @ UBC; Vancouver, Canada
https://mosquitolab.zoology.ubc.ca
https://mosquitolab.zoology.ubc.ca
So cool… congrats Leah and team!
✨🦟✨HOW DO MOSQUITOES HAVE SEX? ✨🦟✨
Join us for a wild journey into hidden female control, rapidly evolving stimulation devices, fierce species competition, and DEADLY MOSQUITOES!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Join us for a wild journey into hidden female control, rapidly evolving stimulation devices, fierce species competition, and DEADLY MOSQUITOES!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
April 21, 2025 at 2:32 AM
So cool… congrats Leah and team!
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Mosquito Cell Atlas: A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult Aedes aegypti mosquito https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.25.639765v1
February 26, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Mosquito Cell Atlas: A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult Aedes aegypti mosquito https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.25.639765v1
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globally, there are ~3500 described mosquito species in the Culicidae family and many of these are important vectors of disease but only a small percentage have genomic resources. we are launching a pilot project to generate high quality reference genomes for 100 important mosquito species [1/3]
February 24, 2025 at 10:51 AM
globally, there are ~3500 described mosquito species in the Culicidae family and many of these are important vectors of disease but only a small percentage have genomic resources. we are launching a pilot project to generate high quality reference genomes for 100 important mosquito species [1/3]
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I created a starter pack highlighting Women in the field of Disease Vector Biology and Ecology: go.bsky.app/E7wuQus Please share and let me know if you’d like to be added! 🦟🦠🪰
December 10, 2024 at 3:28 PM
I created a starter pack highlighting Women in the field of Disease Vector Biology and Ecology: go.bsky.app/E7wuQus Please share and let me know if you’d like to be added! 🦟🦠🪰
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Mosquitoes: the photo gallery.
I feel better about posting this in the off-season, for some reason (*scratches*)
I feel better about posting this in the off-season, for some reason (*scratches*)
Mosquitoes - Alex Wild
Mosquitoes comprise a large family, Culicidae, of slender, scale-covered flies found worldwide. We think of mosquitoes as voracious blood-feeders, but the primary food of adult mosquitoes is actually ...
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December 10, 2024 at 2:38 PM
Mosquitoes: the photo gallery.
I feel better about posting this in the off-season, for some reason (*scratches*)
I feel better about posting this in the off-season, for some reason (*scratches*)
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Congratulations to newly- minted UBC Zoology PhD graduate Dr. Jarrett Blair!
November 30, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Congratulations to newly- minted UBC Zoology PhD graduate Dr. Jarrett Blair!
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Sharing my new paper again since moving from the other place 🙂 We shed light on some of the most rapidly evolving animal behaviors—those surrounding mating.
A modular circuit coordinates the diversification of courtship strategies - Nature
Peripheral and central circuit adaptations can be flexibly coordinated in Drosophila, and such a modular circuit organization may facilitate the evolution of mate recognition systems by allowing novel...
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December 10, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Sharing my new paper again since moving from the other place 🙂 We shed light on some of the most rapidly evolving animal behaviors—those surrounding mating.
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Exciting for this to finally be online! Was a privilege to be part of such a great international team. Excellent phylogenetic comparative work by @genmorinaga.bsky.social to cap it all off!
Now online! An extensive revised phylogenetic analysis of mosquitoes. New paper lead by my colleague @jsoghigian.bsky.social
Phylogenomics reveals the history of host use in mosquitoes - Nature Communications
Despite the significance of mosquitos for human health, little research has focused on their phylogeny. Here, the authors present a resolved phylogenetic history of mosquitoes based on phylogenomics s...
www.nature.com
October 7, 2023 at 4:47 PM
Exciting for this to finally be online! Was a privilege to be part of such a great international team. Excellent phylogenetic comparative work by @genmorinaga.bsky.social to cap it all off!
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Had a great time hosting @benmatthewslab.bsky.social at UCVM! A great seminar and excellent conversations. Thanks for helping us launch our new Comparative Biology and Animal Health seminar series!
September 2, 2023 at 11:34 PM
Had a great time hosting @benmatthewslab.bsky.social at UCVM! A great seminar and excellent conversations. Thanks for helping us launch our new Comparative Biology and Animal Health seminar series!