Reindert Nijland
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Reindert Nijland
@reindertn.bsky.social
Associate professor Molecular Marine Ecology at Wageningen University. I sequence anything, anywhere, to understand changing marine ecosystems. Main focus on the North Sea.
Two papers I contributed to, published online on the same day! Both on large charismatic fish from the North Sea: Sharks and Sturgeons! 🦈🦈
Sharks and rays: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Sturgeons: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
April 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Getting this published was a long process, and taught us a lot. We initially made an error in the primer design of our new 2kb 12S-16S amplicon. This was fortunately identified by a added new reviewer in the third review round. So all experiments had to be repeated with updated, correct primers...
February 11, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Ik zag laatst op Planken Wambuis dit donkere dier. Maar die had meer de grootte van de reebok wat het samen mee stond te grazen...
December 22, 2024 at 7:53 PM
I sequenced and assembled the full mitochondrial DNA of the angular crab (Goneplax rhomboides) using the @nanoporetech.com #MinION #Mk1D, so #nanopore only. The raw read quality really is amazing, and the assembly looks perfect!
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/PQ64...
December 3, 2024 at 12:48 PM
My baby Small-spotted catsharks are still happy, and so much fun to watch!
November 30, 2024 at 6:44 PM
These are juvenile small-spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula) hatched in August this year. So cool!
November 21, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Today I got some new guests in my home aquarium! #babyshark #doo-doo-doo
November 21, 2024 at 8:18 PM
We recently published a forum article in Trends in Ecology & Evolution on "Edge computing in wildlife behavior and ecology". One of the presented cases is our biodiversity/fish sensing box:
doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
January 22, 2024 at 8:53 AM
Great manuscript by Wageningen University PhD-student Annemiek Hermans on the "Effect of electromagnetic fields from subsea power cables on elasmobranch behaviour" now available at @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
December 19, 2023 at 4:22 PM