As an undergrad, former lab-mate has done something it takes graduate students and professors years to accomplish (make an enemy of every single person in his field)
I don’t know all the exact details, but basically his project is analyzing the DNA of invasive apple snails in Belize. Finding out where they came from and whatnot.
There’s been a bunch of other studies over the years like that but each one gives conflicting results. A bunch of different species names have been proposed, except no one can agree on which species lives where or is called what. To make matters worse somebody would reuse somebody else’s species name for a completely different population. Lot of confusion going on.
Anyways this dude basically went “y’all are all wrong, this is very likely just one species of snail”
