Cloudberries are not only delicious, they have a new genome assembly! A chromosome-level, haplotype-resolved assembly of the cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus) reveals a complex octoploid genome with high completeness and detailed structure.
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April 6, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Cloudberries are not only delicious, they have a new genome assembly! A chromosome-level, haplotype-resolved assembly of the cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus) reveals a complex octoploid genome with high completeness and detailed structure.
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Homoploid Hybridization Resolves the Origin of Octoploid Strawberries https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.12.612680v1
Homoploid Hybridization Resolves the Origin of Octoploid Strawberries https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.12.612680v1
The identity of the diploid progenitors of octoploid cultivated strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa) has
www.biorxiv.org
September 16, 2024 at 3:31 AM
Homoploid Hybridization Resolves the Origin of Octoploid Strawberries https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.12.612680v1
Most of the strawberries you buy in the grocery store are octoploid (have 8 sets of chromosomes).
Ok folks: what is your favorite fact that you share with people (maybe a bit too) eagerly?
August 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Most of the strawberries you buy in the grocery store are octoploid (have 8 sets of chromosomes).
What about the strawberry squid? Doubly octoploid?
February 4, 2025 at 1:29 AM
What about the strawberry squid? Doubly octoploid?
Stoked to find the new Octoploid (Finland) at a local record store, Angelo's (no shipping!) This is in my top 50 albums this year, psychedelic melodic death.
December 24, 2024 at 6:22 PM
Stoked to find the new Octoploid (Finland) at a local record store, Angelo's (no shipping!) This is in my top 50 albums this year, psychedelic melodic death.
Behold: Voss' goldenrod (Solidago vossii)!
1 of 2 endemic plant species in Michigan and one of our rarest - found in only 2 counties
Recognized as a new species and named for Ed Voss in 2010
Also, fun fact: the only known octoploid (2n=72) goldenrod in the world
1 of 2 endemic plant species in Michigan and one of our rarest - found in only 2 counties
Recognized as a new species and named for Ed Voss in 2010
Also, fun fact: the only known octoploid (2n=72) goldenrod in the world
August 20, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Behold: Voss' goldenrod (Solidago vossii)!
1 of 2 endemic plant species in Michigan and one of our rarest - found in only 2 counties
Recognized as a new species and named for Ed Voss in 2010
Also, fun fact: the only known octoploid (2n=72) goldenrod in the world
1 of 2 endemic plant species in Michigan and one of our rarest - found in only 2 counties
Recognized as a new species and named for Ed Voss in 2010
Also, fun fact: the only known octoploid (2n=72) goldenrod in the world
Today's teaching: speciation, or "how did we end up with all of this biodiversity anyway", for Year 1 Principles of Ecology. Features London Underground mosquitoes, octoploid ivy & many, many cichlid fish.
October 24, 2024 at 9:47 AM
Today's teaching: speciation, or "how did we end up with all of this biodiversity anyway", for Year 1 Principles of Ecology. Features London Underground mosquitoes, octoploid ivy & many, many cichlid fish.
Sturgeons have undergone multiple whole-genome duplications, making some species octoploid (8x their original genome)! A. stellatus is a “low-ploidy” sturgeon, but its DNA still carries echoes of ancient duplications. #2025MMM doi.org/10.1038/s415...
March 14, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Sturgeons have undergone multiple whole-genome duplications, making some species octoploid (8x their original genome)! A. stellatus is a “low-ploidy” sturgeon, but its DNA still carries echoes of ancient duplications. #2025MMM doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Now Playing 🎵🔊✨
Octoploid - Beyond the Aeons
absolutely fabulous. a barrel of fun and then some !!! proggy melodeathy stuff with GREAT keyboard sections and symphonic arrangements, built on top of just plain excellent songwriting. highly, highly recommend
Octoploid - Beyond the Aeons
absolutely fabulous. a barrel of fun and then some !!! proggy melodeathy stuff with GREAT keyboard sections and symphonic arrangements, built on top of just plain excellent songwriting. highly, highly recommend
Beyond The Aeons
Octoploid · Album · 2024 · 8 songs.
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July 7, 2024 at 7:57 PM
Now Playing 🎵🔊✨
Octoploid - Beyond the Aeons
absolutely fabulous. a barrel of fun and then some !!! proggy melodeathy stuff with GREAT keyboard sections and symphonic arrangements, built on top of just plain excellent songwriting. highly, highly recommend
Octoploid - Beyond the Aeons
absolutely fabulous. a barrel of fun and then some !!! proggy melodeathy stuff with GREAT keyboard sections and symphonic arrangements, built on top of just plain excellent songwriting. highly, highly recommend
Can we call the Z0 sex chromosome ploidy Octoploid Sex Chromosomes just to be as confusing as possible?
February 4, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Can we call the Z0 sex chromosome ploidy Octoploid Sex Chromosomes just to be as confusing as possible?
An impressive allo-octoploid contribution to our T2T Series.
A telomere-to-telomere phased genome of an octoploid strawberry reveals a receptor kinase conferring anthracnose resistance doi.org/10.1093/giga...
A telomere-to-telomere phased genome of an octoploid strawberry reveals a receptor kinase conferring anthracnose resistance doi.org/10.1093/giga...
A telomere-to-telomere phased genome of an octoploid strawberry reveals a receptor kinase conferring anthracnose resistance
AbstractBackground. Cultivated strawberry (Fragaria xananassa Duch.), an allo-octoploid species arising from at least 3 diploid progenitors, poses a challe
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March 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
An impressive allo-octoploid contribution to our T2T Series.
A telomere-to-telomere phased genome of an octoploid strawberry reveals a receptor kinase conferring anthracnose resistance doi.org/10.1093/giga...
A telomere-to-telomere phased genome of an octoploid strawberry reveals a receptor kinase conferring anthracnose resistance doi.org/10.1093/giga...
Apparently cultivated strawberries have 8 sets of chromosomes (octoploid) instead of the usual 1 or 2 in plants. Bizarre
March 27, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Apparently cultivated strawberries have 8 sets of chromosomes (octoploid) instead of the usual 1 or 2 in plants. Bizarre
Source : doi.org/10.1038/s414...
A roadmap for research in octoploid strawberry
AbstractThe cultivated strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) is an allo-octoploid species, originating nearly 300 years ago from wild progenitors from the Ameri
doi.org
October 4, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Source : doi.org/10.1038/s414...
How many genome copies per cell?
2 (diploid)🍑🥑🥒🍅🌽🍇🍋🍍🥕🌶️
3 (triploid)🍌🍉
4 (tetraploid)☕🥔🚬🥜
6 (hexaploid)🍞🥝
8 (octoploid)🍓
2 (diploid)🍑🥑🥒🍅🌽🍇🍋🍍🥕🌶️
3 (triploid)🍌🍉
4 (tetraploid)☕🥔🚬🥜
6 (hexaploid)🍞🥝
8 (octoploid)🍓
December 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
How many genome copies per cell?
2 (diploid)🍑🥑🥒🍅🌽🍇🍋🍍🥕🌶️
3 (triploid)🍌🍉
4 (tetraploid)☕🥔🚬🥜
6 (hexaploid)🍞🥝
8 (octoploid)🍓
2 (diploid)🍑🥑🥒🍅🌽🍇🍋🍍🥕🌶️
3 (triploid)🍌🍉
4 (tetraploid)☕🥔🚬🥜
6 (hexaploid)🍞🥝
8 (octoploid)🍓
#AOTY2024 Part 1: 31-40. More thrash/thrash-adjacent stuff made it into my top 40 than I thought: Hellbutcher, Ghetto Ghouls, BAT, Jasta, Oxygen Destroyer, Morbid Saint, Korrosive & Abysm. Plus killer progressive death metal from Octoploid and wicked stoner riffage from Sons Of Arrakis 💪 #MetalSky
December 13, 2024 at 1:44 PM
#TEsky Deciphering octoploid strawberry evolution with serial LTR similarity matrices for subgenome partition doi.org/10.1093/hr/u... Paper from last year I missed
Deciphering octoploid strawberry evolution with serial LTR similarity matrices for subgenome partition
Abstract. Polyploidization has been recognized as a major force in plant evolution. With the continuous progress in sequencing technologies and genome asse
doi.org
January 23, 2026 at 1:18 PM
#TEsky Deciphering octoploid strawberry evolution with serial LTR similarity matrices for subgenome partition doi.org/10.1093/hr/u... Paper from last year I missed
A genetically broad-based population of octoploid blueberries was developed based on the gene pool of cultivated highbush blueberry.
#HortScience https://doi.org/10.21273/HORTSCI19191-25
#plantscience
#HortScience https://doi.org/10.21273/HORTSCI19191-25
#plantscience
March 7, 2026 at 11:00 AM
A genetically broad-based population of octoploid blueberries was developed based on the gene pool of cultivated highbush blueberry.
#HortScience https://doi.org/10.21273/HORTSCI19191-25
#plantscience
#HortScience https://doi.org/10.21273/HORTSCI19191-25
#plantscience
BLIGHTED EYE; OCTOPLOID; VØIDWOMB; THE FLIGHT OF SLEIPNIR; KVAEN; MOSS UPON THE SKULL; NECROWRETCH; DEFACEMENT; HAIL SPIRIT NOIR; GAEREA; CIVEROUS; BIPOLAR ARCHITECTURE; STORMCROW; SLIMELORD; CEREMONY OF SILENCE; EXUVIAL; ÆTHĔRĬA CONSCĬENTĬA; ABHORIA; VALE OF PNATH; . . .
December 18, 2024 at 1:54 AM
BLIGHTED EYE; OCTOPLOID; VØIDWOMB; THE FLIGHT OF SLEIPNIR; KVAEN; MOSS UPON THE SKULL; NECROWRETCH; DEFACEMENT; HAIL SPIRIT NOIR; GAEREA; CIVEROUS; BIPOLAR ARCHITECTURE; STORMCROW; SLIMELORD; CEREMONY OF SILENCE; EXUVIAL; ÆTHĔRĬA CONSCĬENTĬA; ABHORIA; VALE OF PNATH; . . .
This morning’s listen is the progressively driven opus fro Octoploid. An engrossing mix of 90’s Death Metal, 70’s prog and some psyche thrown into the mix
#metalsky
#metalsky
March 9, 2025 at 9:10 AM
This morning’s listen is the progressively driven opus fro Octoploid. An engrossing mix of 90’s Death Metal, 70’s prog and some psyche thrown into the mix
#metalsky
#metalsky
Bona tarda. open.spotify.com/track/7HK4OB...
Human Amoral (feat. Tomi Joutsen)
Octoploid, Tomi Joutsen · Beyond The Aeons · Song · 2024
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January 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Bona tarda. open.spotify.com/track/7HK4OB...
CUMA PAZARI:
5 TEMMUZ
Bu haftanın dikkat çeken albümleri:
Aeons - The Ghosts of What We Knew
Focus - Focus 12
Kick The Giant - Presence
Octoploid - Beyond the Aeons
The Windmill - Mindscapes
5 TEMMUZ
Bu haftanın dikkat çeken albümleri:
Aeons - The Ghosts of What We Knew
Focus - Focus 12
Kick The Giant - Presence
Octoploid - Beyond the Aeons
The Windmill - Mindscapes
July 5, 2024 at 6:10 AM
CUMA PAZARI:
5 TEMMUZ
Bu haftanın dikkat çeken albümleri:
Aeons - The Ghosts of What We Knew
Focus - Focus 12
Kick The Giant - Presence
Octoploid - Beyond the Aeons
The Windmill - Mindscapes
5 TEMMUZ
Bu haftanın dikkat çeken albümleri:
Aeons - The Ghosts of What We Knew
Focus - Focus 12
Kick The Giant - Presence
Octoploid - Beyond the Aeons
The Windmill - Mindscapes
X:n tuplaleimat käytetty. Tulipas tilattua satsi, kun edellisestä oli aikaa niin kauan. 😅
#musasky
#opeth #solstafir #nightwish #amorphis #grandmagus #swallowthesun #aleah #alcest #viikate #seasicksteve #nile #oranssipazuzu #octoploid #airbag
#musasky
#opeth #solstafir #nightwish #amorphis #grandmagus #swallowthesun #aleah #alcest #viikate #seasicksteve #nile #oranssipazuzu #octoploid #airbag
November 23, 2024 at 9:03 AM
X:n tuplaleimat käytetty. Tulipas tilattua satsi, kun edellisestä oli aikaa niin kauan. 😅
#musasky
#opeth #solstafir #nightwish #amorphis #grandmagus #swallowthesun #aleah #alcest #viikate #seasicksteve #nile #oranssipazuzu #octoploid #airbag
#musasky
#opeth #solstafir #nightwish #amorphis #grandmagus #swallowthesun #aleah #alcest #viikate #seasicksteve #nile #oranssipazuzu #octoploid #airbag
[News] Octoploid launch "Siren’s Lament" single & official lyric video & 2025 Finland headline tour kicking off
progrockjournal.com/news-octoplo...
#progrockjournal #ovtoploid #newsingle #newrelease #tourdates #livemusic #progressivedeathmetal #progressiverock #retro #music
progrockjournal.com/news-octoplo...
#progrockjournal #ovtoploid #newsingle #newrelease #tourdates #livemusic #progressivedeathmetal #progressiverock #retro #music
[News] Octoploid launch "Siren’s Lament" single & official lyric video & 2025 Finland headline tour kicking off
Octoploid, a Finnish 70s Death Prog outfit led by Olli-Pekka “Oppu” Laine, are about to embark on their 2025 Finland tour in support of their debut album
progrockjournal.com
April 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
[News] Octoploid launch "Siren’s Lament" single & official lyric video & 2025 Finland headline tour kicking off
progrockjournal.com/news-octoplo...
#progrockjournal #ovtoploid #newsingle #newrelease #tourdates #livemusic #progressivedeathmetal #progressiverock #retro #music
progrockjournal.com/news-octoplo...
#progrockjournal #ovtoploid #newsingle #newrelease #tourdates #livemusic #progressivedeathmetal #progressiverock #retro #music
🍓Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions: Fusarium wilt continues to threaten strawberry production as new strains overcome existing resistance. (Mishi V. Vachev, M. Bjornson, D. Pincot, G. Coaker, S. Knapp, Mitchell J. Feldmann)
▶️ apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...
#PlantScience #PlantPathology
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#PlantScience #PlantPathology
June 15, 2026 at 4:19 PM
🍓Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions: Fusarium wilt continues to threaten strawberry production as new strains overcome existing resistance. (Mishi V. Vachev, M. Bjornson, D. Pincot, G. Coaker, S. Knapp, Mitchell J. Feldmann)
▶️ apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...
#PlantScience #PlantPathology
▶️ apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...
#PlantScience #PlantPathology
🍓From Plant Genome: WGS-BSA revealed a strawberry Fusarium wilt resistance gene, FW7, enabling more effective R-gene pyramiding. (Mishi V. Vachev, M. Bjornson, D. Pincot, R. Famula, H. Brukental, C. Lòpez, G. Cole, M. Feldmann, Steven J. Knapp)
▶️ acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
▶️ acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Whole‐genome sequencing bulked segregant analysis uncovered FW7, a Fusarium wilt resistance gene masked by epistasis in octoploid strawberry
The resistance of the heirloom cultivar Earliglow to Fusarium wilt race 1 is conferred by a dominant gene on chromosome 2B (FW6) and a nearly additive gene on chromosome 2A (FW7). The effect of FW7 ...
acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
🍓From Plant Genome: WGS-BSA revealed a strawberry Fusarium wilt resistance gene, FW7, enabling more effective R-gene pyramiding. (Mishi V. Vachev, M. Bjornson, D. Pincot, R. Famula, H. Brukental, C. Lòpez, G. Cole, M. Feldmann, Steven J. Knapp)
▶️ acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
▶️ acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...