Angus DavisonJan 16, 2023
Helicopter trip into West Maui mountains to collect chirally variable Lymnaeid snails 🐌, funded by BBSRC International Collaboration award with Ken Hayes and Norine Yeung at Bishop Museum, Honolulu. Think I am rocking the rebel fighters from Star Wars look?
#chirality #snails #snail #sinstral #genomics #asymmetry #LRasymmetry #BBSRC #BishopMuseum
#StarWars #Maui #Oahu
Angus DavisonJan 6, 2023
Not at #popgroup56, because needed family time prior to am heading out soon for first foreign field work since 2019. And its a good one: Hawaii working with collaborators at the Bishop Museum on chirally variable snails 🐌, funded by BBSRC. Beyond excited! Slightly cheesy 🧀 video highlights previous trip.
#chirality #snails #snail #sinstral #genomics #asymmetry #LRasymmetry #pgg56 #BBSRC
Show threadAngus DavisonJan 2, 2023

Junji Ito gets it *mostly* right in his snail imagery. In this image, left-coiling snails have their genitals on the right, when they should be on the left. They are of course hermaphrodites, not "both males". Also missing is the fact that they stab each other with darts when mating, aptly "The way of the Samurai snail" https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/508028 by @jkoene

#JunjiIto #Uzumaki #chirality #snails #sinstral #genomics

The Way of the Samurai Snail | The American Naturalist: Vol 168, No 4

The American Naturalist
Angus DavisonDec 19, 2022

"Look at that one, it's a lefty" she said.

Japanese Euhadra snails frequently feature in the gruesome snail art of Junji Ito. Unlike much of the rest of the world, left-coiling snails are common in Japan. Why and how?

#JunjiIto #Uzumaki #chirality #snails #sinstral #genomics