A beautiful baby girl!

Congratulations to Mac and Dumi on the birth of their beautiful daughter.

We are so pleased that a farewell party turned into the start of a new life 9 months on!

Will she be a frogger?

South Africa's mega-diverse soil community - reviewed!

In an amazing paper, Charlene Janion and colleagues (including MeaseyLab's Siviwe Lamani) have produced a synthesis on what is known about the massive diversity of South Africa's soil community. 

This paper is truely a landmark piece, and will act as a resource for years to come!

Find the full text here. 

Here's some more coverage on Mac's piece from Eyewitness News:

Read Mac's article about the past, present and future of Cape frogs published today in The Conversation:

Musty old archives and piles of yellowed paper might be the conventional way to think about historical studies, but in this paper, Lance van Sittert (History Department, UCT) used a digitised database to go back in time and pull out all the information on exports of African clawed frogs.

Together with information from publications, we obtained decadal time slices of how X. laevis spread across the globe. Read about their historical spread in our recently published paper: Van Sittert & Measey 2016