After a two-year hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Frédéric, Lionel, Rémi and Marie-Ka returned to French Guiana in the Pasteur Institute in Cayenne together with Sophie and Mathilde. They spent two weeks the lab of long time collaborator Benoit de Thoisy working on roadkill specimens preserved in the JAGUARS collection (http://kwata.net/la-collection-jaguars-pour-l-etude-de-la-biodiversite.html). This allowed the ConvergeAnt team to perform dissections of roadkill myr

Sérgio's third PhD paper on comparative masticatory myology in anteaters and its implications for interpreting morphological convergence in myrmecophagous placentals has just been published in PeerJ (https://peerj.com/articles/9690/). This paper is based on both classical and digital dissections using contrast-enhanced µ-CT scanning of masticatory muscles on heads of the pygmy (Cyclopes didactylus), collared (Tamandua tetradactyla) and giant (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) anteater

Frédéric, Rémi, and Amandine attended the annual meeting of the Center for the study of biodiversity in Amazonia (Labex CEBA) in Cayenne (French Guiana) together with Fabien Condamine and Nathan Mazet (ISEM). Frédéric presented the results of our successful efforts to obtain genomes from mammalian roadkill specimen using the Oxford Nanopore Technology (ONT). Before the conference, they spent a week between the Pasteur Institute dissecting a freshly found roadkill three-finger

Frédéric, Lionel, Rémi, Sérgio and Marie-Ka attended the annual meeting of the Center for the study of biodiversity in Amazonia (Labex CEBA) in Cayenne (French Guiana) together with Fabien Condamine and Pierre-Olivier Antoine (ISEM). Frédéric chaired a session on Neotropical Diversification. Before the conference, they spent five days at the Pasteur Institute dissecting roadkill armadillos and anteaters, as well as the giant anteater of the Cayenne Zoo that died earlier that

Frédéric and Marie-Ka attended the annual meeting of the Center for the study of biodiversity in Amazonia (Labex CEBA) in Cayenne (French Guiana) with Andrea Sanchez Meseguer (ISEM). Before the conference, they conducted a roadkill survey along the west part of RN1 towards Saint-Laurent du Maroni and up to Awala-Yalimapo and also collected some termites along the road. They finally had the opportunity to dissect a well conserved specimen of Tamandua tetradactyla at the Pasteu

Frédéric and Lionel attended the annual meeting of the Center for the study of biodiversity in Amazonia (Labex CEBA) in Cayenne (French Guiana) with Myriam Boivin and Fabien Condamine (ISEM). After the conference, they conducted a roadkill survey along the west part of RN1 towards Saint-Laurent du Maroni. They also had the opportunity to dissect a pygmy anteater specimen at the Pasteur Institute with collaborator Benoit de Thoisy. #Fieldwork #Collaboration #FrenchGuiana #Ante