Visualising large pedigrees with PCA
Here is a brief post about our recent paper on using PCA to visualise large pedigrees. This is the result of a collaboration between Hanbin Lee (University of Michigan) and…
A Marchantia year – Urban liverworts in Edinburgh
2024 has been a great year for the common liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha) in Edinburgh. It is almost everywhere you look. I started collecting M. polymorpha in 2021. During the subsequent…
Don’t MADN – A game playing itself
I decided to write a program that plays a game without me having to interact. A simulator if you like. Here is a video of one run: Many people know…
Dessert containers again
Bryo cultures have to be watered and that can be tricky! I tend to water mine by spraying them or by pouring on distilled water. This can cause problems when…
Bryo-eating mites?
In my last post on growing bryophytes in takeaway boxes, I said that my bryo cultures are not axenic monocultures. A good example is my tub of Mnium hornum, shown…
A better cultivation method
Using ceramic pots was a cute way of cultivating bryophytes and may be a good way of making bryo gifts, but I found that the pots’ high rims make manipulations…
What happened to the pots?
The blog has gone suspiciously quiet and you may have guessed that my initial cultivation attempt did not go too well. Washed sand without added nutrients turned out not the…
Two thalloids in pots – The Common and the Crescent-cup Liverwort
Never go shopping hungry, my partner tends to say! Last time we went shopping hungry, we came back with heaps of delicious things including two little ceramic pots filled with…
Bryo cultivation – First attempts
Recently I started growing bryophytes at home! I thought it would be a fun project and that it will provide me with material to play around with. Apart from the…
How much DNA is there in a bryophyte?
Everybody seems to know that DNA, genes, and genomes are made up of the four letters A, T, G, and C. But how many of these are there in a…
Why genetics is great for studying bryophytes
Bryophytes are wonderful plants and I would like to think that I do not need to do much canvassing on their behalf. Besides being fascinating in their own right, bryophytes…
Genetics?
When asked what genetics is, people often answer about DNA, genetically modified organisms, disease, and what makes us what we are. Genetics has to do with all of these points,…
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