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Taylor Gallagher
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PhD Candidate | Aspiring Visionary Scientist | Future Leader in Biodiversity Conservation
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🐧We researched one of the world’s rarest #penguins. The yellow‑eyed penguin (aka hoiho/takaraka) isn’t one homogeneous species after all!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#hoiho #conservation #genomics #birds #nzwildlife #endangered #wildlife #nature
October 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Dissecting functional regulatory convergence over 160 million years of therian evolution https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.10.662670v1
July 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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🧬🎨 When gills do Pointillism!

For this #FluorescenceFriday,
here’s a dissected gill arch expressing nuclear fgf10b:nEOS — depth color-coded: blue for medial filaments, yellow for lateral ones.

#Zebrafish #DevBio #Microscopy #Gills
July 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Very excited to present on Wednesday at GSA this year on my HCR and spatial transcriptomic data for honeybees! I'm on at 12 in OGGB5 in the Sir Owen Glenn building!✨
July 6, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Very excited to be speaking this week at #GSA about our current work on velvet worms! 🐛 Come along to the Sir Own Glenn Building (OGGB3) on Wednesday 9th July at 12:00PM to hear all about a gigantic genome, slime gland transcriptomics, and more!
July 6, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Skin, scales, and cells in a Jurassic plesiosaur: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Skin, scales, and cells in a Jurassic plesiosaur
Marx et al. report the first detailed study of fossilized plesiosaur soft tissues. These show that plesiosaurs possessed both smooth body skin and scaly flippers.
www.cell.com
February 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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🔺🔺🔺RED TRIANGLE ALERT 🔺🔺🔺
Ever wonder how #TADs compare across the tree of life?Look no further & read our Review!!!

Find out what genes & 3D chromatin can & can't do in Bacteria! Archeae! Yeast! Plants! Animals!

SMCs & RNA-Pol are the only thing they have in common
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Evolution and function of chromatin domains across the tree of life - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Szalay et al. discuss cross-kingdom similarities and differences in 3D chromatin folding in relation to gene regulation, including in bacteria, archaea, mammals and plants. This comparison reveals cer...
www.nature.com
November 28, 2024 at 12:48 PM
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Since we've been talking about velvet worms (Onychophora), I've been looking for references and was struck by this thought - who did it it first - nature or Disney? Art imitating nature again 🤔😀

#InsertAnInvert2024
July 8, 2024 at 12:05 PM
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You can check out my and others expert opinions on new research showing an increased risk of climate-driven extinctions in #NewZealand biodiversity (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) here www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2024/12/06/n... @smcnz.bsky.social
NZ and Aus wildlife among most vulnerable to climate-driven extinction - Expert Reaction
New Zealand species are among the most vulnerable to extinction in a warming world, according to a global analysis of 30 years of research. The author finds that under a projected 2.7°C rise above pr...
www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz
December 6, 2024 at 6:15 PM