Alice Godden
@alicegodden.bsky.social
Post-doc in Immler lab at University of East Anglia.
Pop Gen and Evo-Devo
Likes small RNAs, TEs and ⚽️
She/Her
🐠🧬👩💻🐍📊🔬
Pop Gen and Evo-Devo
Likes small RNAs, TEs and ⚽️
She/Her
🐠🧬👩💻🐍📊🔬
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Alice Godden
@alicegodden.bsky.social
· Mar 22
Environmentally induced variation in sperm sRNAs is linked to gene expression and transposable elements in zebrafish offspring
Heredity - Environmentally induced variation in sperm sRNAs is linked to gene expression and transposable elements in zebrafish offspring
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🔬 My latest work w/ @immler.bsky.social et al: Env. stress alters sperm sRNAs, linking gene expr. + transposons in #zebrafish offspring. @heredityjournal.bsky.social
🧬 Social stress shapes RNA/TE activity across generations
#Sperm #miRNA #piRNA #Transposons #TEsky @biouea.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eeAwB
🧬 Social stress shapes RNA/TE activity across generations
#Sperm #miRNA #piRNA #Transposons #TEsky @biouea.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eeAwB
Reposted by Alice Godden
📢🚨Please share! We’re hiring! 📢🚨Have a strong interests in wildlife ecology and gut microbiome bioinformatics? 3 year Senior Research Associate for NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant. Apply here: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/18.... Informal enquiries welcome! drgldavidson.github.io/ACMEresearch
September 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM
📢🚨Please share! We’re hiring! 📢🚨Have a strong interests in wildlife ecology and gut microbiome bioinformatics? 3 year Senior Research Associate for NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant. Apply here: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/18.... Informal enquiries welcome! drgldavidson.github.io/ACMEresearch
🧬 Our latest paper out in Scientific Reports!
We explored how Gum Arabic (a dietary fibre) affects the microbiota–gut–brain axis and whole-organism fitness in zebrafish.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@immler.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social
What we found ⬇️
We explored how Gum Arabic (a dietary fibre) affects the microbiota–gut–brain axis and whole-organism fitness in zebrafish.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@immler.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social
What we found ⬇️
Gum Arabic modulates the microbiota-gut-brain axis and affects general fitness in zebrafish - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Gum Arabic modulates the microbiota-gut-brain axis and affects general fitness in zebrafish
www.nature.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:08 AM
🧬 Our latest paper out in Scientific Reports!
We explored how Gum Arabic (a dietary fibre) affects the microbiota–gut–brain axis and whole-organism fitness in zebrafish.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@immler.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social
What we found ⬇️
We explored how Gum Arabic (a dietary fibre) affects the microbiota–gut–brain axis and whole-organism fitness in zebrafish.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@immler.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social
What we found ⬇️
Our new paper is out in Dev Biol! 🎉 🐸🧬
We show #miR-196a directs #neural crest fate in #Xenopus by repressing immature neural #ectoderm — evidence #miRNAs can potentially drive, not just fine-tune, early patterning
👉 Read more here: doi.org/10.1016/j.yd...
@devbiol.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social
We show #miR-196a directs #neural crest fate in #Xenopus by repressing immature neural #ectoderm — evidence #miRNAs can potentially drive, not just fine-tune, early patterning
👉 Read more here: doi.org/10.1016/j.yd...
@devbiol.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Our new paper is out in Dev Biol! 🎉 🐸🧬
We show #miR-196a directs #neural crest fate in #Xenopus by repressing immature neural #ectoderm — evidence #miRNAs can potentially drive, not just fine-tune, early patterning
👉 Read more here: doi.org/10.1016/j.yd...
@devbiol.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social
We show #miR-196a directs #neural crest fate in #Xenopus by repressing immature neural #ectoderm — evidence #miRNAs can potentially drive, not just fine-tune, early patterning
👉 Read more here: doi.org/10.1016/j.yd...
@devbiol.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social
Big thanks to the organisers and chairs for accepting my abstract, this was such a great session to be a part of 🧬🔥🌎🐟
Now @alicegodden.bsky.social tells us about sex specific activity of TEs, miRNAs and gene expression in the germline under heat stress in zebra fish 🐟
August 26, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Big thanks to the organisers and chairs for accepting my abstract, this was such a great session to be a part of 🧬🔥🌎🐟
Reposted by Alice Godden
Thanks to all those that attended the @sortee.bsky.social led symposium at #ESEB2025 and for those that met up on Wednesday!!
If you’re interested in joining SORTEE and supporting open science in EcoEvo, consider becoming a member!
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August 22, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Thanks to all those that attended the @sortee.bsky.social led symposium at #ESEB2025 and for those that met up on Wednesday!!
If you’re interested in joining SORTEE and supporting open science in EcoEvo, consider becoming a member!
sortee.org/join/
If you’re interested in joining SORTEE and supporting open science in EcoEvo, consider becoming a member!
sortee.org/join/
Reposted by Alice Godden
Screaming into the blue void: anyone out there interested in some long-read #pacbio #european #wolf #sequence data? We have too much data from a pilot to not use, but it is too little data to assemble a #T2T on our own. Open to #collaboration. Get in touch!
a wolf is standing in the snow with its mouth open and looking at the camera .
ALT: a wolf is standing in the snow with its mouth open and looking at the camera .
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July 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Reposted by Alice Godden
Today’s the day! Our 2025 Research Colloquium, celebrating the research taking place here in BIO, starts at 09:30 in the Thomas Paine Study Centre. A fantastic day of talks awaits us, including our guest speaker Jean-Baptiste Raina of the University of Technology, Sydney!
#UEABioResearch
#UEAScience
#UEABioResearch
#UEAScience
July 8, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Today’s the day! Our 2025 Research Colloquium, celebrating the research taking place here in BIO, starts at 09:30 in the Thomas Paine Study Centre. A fantastic day of talks awaits us, including our guest speaker Jean-Baptiste Raina of the University of Technology, Sydney!
#UEABioResearch
#UEAScience
#UEABioResearch
#UEAScience
Reposted by Alice Godden
🔍 From the origins of life to cutting-edge genomic tools, the hashtag#ESEB2025 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐝.
With more than 50 symposia led by international experts, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞’𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭.
📖 Explore the full list of symposia:
🔗 https://lnkd.in/da5JU3mv
With more than 50 symposia led by international experts, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞’𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭.
📖 Explore the full list of symposia:
🔗 https://lnkd.in/da5JU3mv
June 30, 2025 at 8:27 AM
🔍 From the origins of life to cutting-edge genomic tools, the hashtag#ESEB2025 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐝.
With more than 50 symposia led by international experts, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞’𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭.
📖 Explore the full list of symposia:
🔗 https://lnkd.in/da5JU3mv
With more than 50 symposia led by international experts, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞’𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭.
📖 Explore the full list of symposia:
🔗 https://lnkd.in/da5JU3mv
Reposted by Alice Godden
Registered for #EISingleCell25 yet? 🧬 🖥️
We'll be hearing Dr Pascal Barbry, Research Director at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, about integrating different #singlecell techniques to compare and understand healthy and pathological lung function.
We'll be hearing Dr Pascal Barbry, Research Director at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, about integrating different #singlecell techniques to compare and understand healthy and pathological lung function.
Norwich Single-Cell and Spatial Symposium
Now in its eighth year, and extended to a two-day event, the Norwich Single-Cell and Spatial Symposium at Earlham Institute covers single-cell and spatial genomics technologies and their application…
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May 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Registered for #EISingleCell25 yet? 🧬 🖥️
We'll be hearing Dr Pascal Barbry, Research Director at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, about integrating different #singlecell techniques to compare and understand healthy and pathological lung function.
We'll be hearing Dr Pascal Barbry, Research Director at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, about integrating different #singlecell techniques to compare and understand healthy and pathological lung function.
Reposted by Alice Godden
With a published genome & advancements in gene editing, the field of #zebrafish genetics has exploded in recent decades. We take a look back at major achievements in this infographic. For more, read this book chapter by @varshneylab.social et al (2015)($) doi.org/10.1016/bs.a... #ZebrafishFunFacts 🧪
May 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
With a published genome & advancements in gene editing, the field of #zebrafish genetics has exploded in recent decades. We take a look back at major achievements in this infographic. For more, read this book chapter by @varshneylab.social et al (2015)($) doi.org/10.1016/bs.a... #ZebrafishFunFacts 🧪
Reposted by Alice Godden
🧵 🧪 1/ Female #ReproductiveBiology is, unfortunately, notoriously understudied.
So maybe it’s no surprise that a supposedly useless ‘developmental leftover’ in the ovaries could turn out to be...not so useless after all.
Meet the rete ovarii 👇
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So maybe it’s no surprise that a supposedly useless ‘developmental leftover’ in the ovaries could turn out to be...not so useless after all.
Meet the rete ovarii 👇
buff.ly/VudxQ2U
April 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
🧵 🧪 1/ Female #ReproductiveBiology is, unfortunately, notoriously understudied.
So maybe it’s no surprise that a supposedly useless ‘developmental leftover’ in the ovaries could turn out to be...not so useless after all.
Meet the rete ovarii 👇
buff.ly/VudxQ2U
So maybe it’s no surprise that a supposedly useless ‘developmental leftover’ in the ovaries could turn out to be...not so useless after all.
Meet the rete ovarii 👇
buff.ly/VudxQ2U
Reposted by Alice Godden
Introducing the brand new Starter Pack of staff, PhD students and related accounts, from the School of Biological Sciences, UEA.
Follow us...
#UEAScience
go.bsky.app/PLSJXMz
Follow us...
#UEAScience
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April 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Introducing the brand new Starter Pack of staff, PhD students and related accounts, from the School of Biological Sciences, UEA.
Follow us...
#UEAScience
go.bsky.app/PLSJXMz
Follow us...
#UEAScience
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🔬 My latest work w/ @immler.bsky.social et al: Env. stress alters sperm sRNAs, linking gene expr. + transposons in #zebrafish offspring. @heredityjournal.bsky.social
🧬 Social stress shapes RNA/TE activity across generations
#Sperm #miRNA #piRNA #Transposons #TEsky @biouea.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eeAwB
🧬 Social stress shapes RNA/TE activity across generations
#Sperm #miRNA #piRNA #Transposons #TEsky @biouea.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eeAwB
Environmentally induced variation in sperm sRNAs is linked to gene expression and transposable elements in zebrafish offspring
Heredity - Environmentally induced variation in sperm sRNAs is linked to gene expression and transposable elements in zebrafish offspring
rdcu.be
March 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
🔬 My latest work w/ @immler.bsky.social et al: Env. stress alters sperm sRNAs, linking gene expr. + transposons in #zebrafish offspring. @heredityjournal.bsky.social
🧬 Social stress shapes RNA/TE activity across generations
#Sperm #miRNA #piRNA #Transposons #TEsky @biouea.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eeAwB
🧬 Social stress shapes RNA/TE activity across generations
#Sperm #miRNA #piRNA #Transposons #TEsky @biouea.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eeAwB
Reposted by Alice Godden
Need to electroporate and/or live image avian embryos? We hope our new preprint will help you get started:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Open EGGbox: an open-source 3D-printed embryonic Gallus gallus toolbox for electroporation and culture/live imaging of avian embryos ex ovo
🧪🐣 #devbio
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Open EGGbox: an open-source 3D-printed embryonic Gallus gallus toolbox for electroporation and culture/live imaging of avian embryos ex ovo
🧪🐣 #devbio
March 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Need to electroporate and/or live image avian embryos? We hope our new preprint will help you get started:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Open EGGbox: an open-source 3D-printed embryonic Gallus gallus toolbox for electroporation and culture/live imaging of avian embryos ex ovo
🧪🐣 #devbio
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Open EGGbox: an open-source 3D-printed embryonic Gallus gallus toolbox for electroporation and culture/live imaging of avian embryos ex ovo
🧪🐣 #devbio
Pleased to share my latest pre-print from my PhD work
🚨MicroRNA miR-196a controls neural crest patterning by repressing immature neural ectoderm programs in Xenopus embryos. 🐸🧬 @biouea.bsky.social
#miRNA #Xenopus #neuralcrest #ectoderm #RNA-seq
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🚨MicroRNA miR-196a controls neural crest patterning by repressing immature neural ectoderm programs in Xenopus embryos. 🐸🧬 @biouea.bsky.social
#miRNA #Xenopus #neuralcrest #ectoderm #RNA-seq
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
MicroRNA miR-196a controls neural crest patterning by repressing immature neural ectoderm programs in Xenopus embryos.
Neural crest (NC) cells form a multipotent stem cell population specified during neurulation, which undergo an epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and migrate extensively in the developing embr...
www.biorxiv.org
March 7, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Pleased to share my latest pre-print from my PhD work
🚨MicroRNA miR-196a controls neural crest patterning by repressing immature neural ectoderm programs in Xenopus embryos. 🐸🧬 @biouea.bsky.social
#miRNA #Xenopus #neuralcrest #ectoderm #RNA-seq
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🚨MicroRNA miR-196a controls neural crest patterning by repressing immature neural ectoderm programs in Xenopus embryos. 🐸🧬 @biouea.bsky.social
#miRNA #Xenopus #neuralcrest #ectoderm #RNA-seq
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🚨Our new paper @immler.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social 🚨
FishPi: a #bioinformatic prediction tool to link #piRNA and #transposable elements
Read now in Mobile DNA >> rdcu.be/d7Jub
✅ Covers many species (more to come)
✅ GUI based software
#TESky #zebrafish #transposons
@zebrafishrock.bsky.social
FishPi: a #bioinformatic prediction tool to link #piRNA and #transposable elements
Read now in Mobile DNA >> rdcu.be/d7Jub
✅ Covers many species (more to come)
✅ GUI based software
#TESky #zebrafish #transposons
@zebrafishrock.bsky.social
January 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
🚨Our new paper @immler.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social 🚨
FishPi: a #bioinformatic prediction tool to link #piRNA and #transposable elements
Read now in Mobile DNA >> rdcu.be/d7Jub
✅ Covers many species (more to come)
✅ GUI based software
#TESky #zebrafish #transposons
@zebrafishrock.bsky.social
FishPi: a #bioinformatic prediction tool to link #piRNA and #transposable elements
Read now in Mobile DNA >> rdcu.be/d7Jub
✅ Covers many species (more to come)
✅ GUI based software
#TESky #zebrafish #transposons
@zebrafishrock.bsky.social
Reposted by Alice Godden
Highlights include new works from @smeetonlab.bsky.social, @alicegodden.bsky.social, @immler.bsky.social & Misty Riddle (#cavefish) 🐟 #WomenInScience
Happy new year! December may be behind us, but if you want to know what #DevBio and #StemCell biology #preprints came out last month, check out our latest preprints list ⬇️
thenode.biologists.com/december-in-...
thenode.biologists.com/december-in-...
December in preprints - the Node
Welcome to our monthly trawl for developmental and stem cell biology (and related) preprints. The preprints this month are hosted on bioRxiv and arXiv –
thenode.biologists.com
January 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Highlights include new works from @smeetonlab.bsky.social, @alicegodden.bsky.social, @immler.bsky.social & Misty Riddle (#cavefish) 🐟 #WomenInScience
🚨New paper from @immler.bsky.social lab
Led by Jayme Cohen doi.org/10.1002/pmic...
On the #Zebrafish #sperm proteome out now! 🐠
Led by Jayme Cohen doi.org/10.1002/pmic...
On the #Zebrafish #sperm proteome out now! 🐠
The Zebrafish Sperm Proteome
One of the key processes that forms the basis of fertilisation is the tight interaction between sperm and egg. Both sperm and egg proteomes are known to evolve and diverge rapidly even between closel...
doi.org
December 31, 2024 at 5:51 PM
🚨New paper from @immler.bsky.social lab
Led by Jayme Cohen doi.org/10.1002/pmic...
On the #Zebrafish #sperm proteome out now! 🐠
Led by Jayme Cohen doi.org/10.1002/pmic...
On the #Zebrafish #sperm proteome out now! 🐠
Reposted by Alice Godden
Applications close Friday (20) for PhD projects as part of the @daniorecode.bsky.social MSCA doctoral network.
Project available with Prof Irene Papatheodorou working on comprehensive cell atlases of regeneration in three different species. #zebrafish #singlecell
Project available with Prof Irene Papatheodorou working on comprehensive cell atlases of regeneration in three different species. #zebrafish #singlecell
We are offering 15 PhD positions in Decoding Transcriptional Regulation in Regeneration by Advanced Genomics and Computational tools (funded by the DANIO-ReCODE MSCA 2023 Doctoral Network) 🇪🇸 🇭🇷 🇸🇮 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 🇦🇹 Apply now: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/290548
15 PhD positions in Decoding Transcriptional Regulation in Regeneration by Advanced Genomics and Computational tools (funded by the DANIO-ReCODE MSCA 2023 Doctoral Network)
The principal objective of DANIO-ReCODE is to provide world-class doctoral training to a new generation of early-career researchers interested in understanding the complex and multilayered process of ...
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
December 17, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Applications close Friday (20) for PhD projects as part of the @daniorecode.bsky.social MSCA doctoral network.
Project available with Prof Irene Papatheodorou working on comprehensive cell atlases of regeneration in three different species. #zebrafish #singlecell
Project available with Prof Irene Papatheodorou working on comprehensive cell atlases of regeneration in three different species. #zebrafish #singlecell
Reposted by Alice Godden
"Rising temperatures will lead to an increasing number of extinctions, with the highest emission scenario leading to extinction of nearly a third of the Earth’s species, especially those from particular vulnerable taxa or regions."
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Climate change extinctions
Climate change is expected to cause irreversible changes to biodiversity, but predicting those risks remains uncertain. I synthesized 485 studies and more than 5 million projections to produce a quant...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp4461#:~:text=With%20increased%20certainty%2C%20this%20meta-analysis%20suggests%20that%20extinctions,will%20accelerate%20rapidly%20if%20global%20temperatures%20exceed%201.5°C
December 10, 2024 at 7:27 AM
"Rising temperatures will lead to an increasing number of extinctions, with the highest emission scenario leading to extinction of nearly a third of the Earth’s species, especially those from particular vulnerable taxa or regions."
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🚨 Happy to share my latest preprint on #polarbear #transposon activity in response to diverging climates in #Greenland #TEsky 🐻❄🌞❄️🧬👩💻
Diverging transposon activity among polar bear sub-populations inhabiting different climate zones https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.04.626794v1
December 8, 2024 at 9:48 AM
🚨 Happy to share my latest preprint on #polarbear #transposon activity in response to diverging climates in #Greenland #TEsky 🐻❄🌞❄️🧬👩💻
🚨Pleased to share our latest preprint on #zebrafish #geneexpression and #transposons in #sperm & #embryos exposed to social stress
Environmentally induced variation in sperm sRNAs is linked to gene expression and transposable elements in zebrafish offspring https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.04.626822v1
December 8, 2024 at 9:46 AM
🚨Pleased to share our latest preprint on #zebrafish #geneexpression and #transposons in #sperm & #embryos exposed to social stress
We have just updated FishPi with more functionality- check it out! #TESky
FishPi: a bioinformatic prediction tool to link piRNA and transposable elements in zebrafish https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.10.612046v1
FishPi: a bioinformatic prediction tool to link piRNA and transposable elements in zebrafish https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.10.612046v1
Background: Piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNA)s are non-coding small RNAs that post-transcriptionally aff
www.biorxiv.org
December 8, 2024 at 9:43 AM
We have just updated FishPi with more functionality- check it out! #TESky
Home from an amazing #GeneticsSociety transposons meeting.
November 22, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Home from an amazing #GeneticsSociety transposons meeting.