NEW pub in @science.org 🥳

Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life?

For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided.

We provide new evidence suggesting that...

🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Here, we show that deep below, corals and feather stars don’t just share space – they share microbes. Endozoicomonadaceae + Nitrosopumilaceae inhabit both hosts in a “promiscuous” symbiosis that may fuel nitrogen cycling in the deep sea.
doi.org/10.1186/s401... 🌊🪸🧪 #Bioinformatics 🧬💻 #SymbioSky

Drift, dispersal limitation and homogeneous selection as a key processes shaping prokaryotic community assembly in marine sediments academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... #jcampubs

Happy to share that the paper describing Autocycler is now 100% up:
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New review out in Annual Review of Marine Science! 🌊🧫
We explore how ammonia-oxidising microbes form symbioses with marine hosts - fueling the nitrogen cycle, fixing carbon, and possibly feeding their hosts.
#Metagenomics 🧪
#Bioinformatics 🧬💻 #SymbioSky
🔗 doi.org/10.1146/annu...

Great work on Asgardarchaea by @snobsi.bsky.social, @juliameltzer.bsky.social, @xabivc.bsky.social and collaborators

This looks like a great resource for drawing metabolic schemes and the proteins involved. Lost countless hours looking for the subcellular location of specific enzymes and very keen to give this a try

Keeping your symbiosis genes on a plasmid is a smart move if you have multiple potential hosts. Here a gut bacterial symbiont, but same is true for N-fixing Rhizobia.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Hoje, nosso último artigo ganhou destaque no Brasil! 🇧🇷 Nomeamos uma nova ordem e família viral em homenagem a dois deuses da mitologia brasileira. Um pequeno passo para valorizar a ciência e cultura nacionais.
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História completa: academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky

For me, it certainly feels good to be here!

@natureportfolio.bsky.social @bsky.app

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Deep-sea menage à trois? A sponge, an archaeon, and a bacterium rely on carbon & vitamin B12 exchange — until a virus crashes the party! Discover how ammonia-oxidation and viral lysis drive this unique #symbiosis! doi.org/10.1093/isme... #Metagenomics 🧪
#Bioinformatics 🧬💻 #SymbioSky

Nice collaboration with a great team. Congrats to @lilly_hill and Camila Messias for the countless works of work. This is a great isolation method for anyone studying in hospite Symbiodiniaceae out there. 🧪 #Bioinformatics 🧬💻

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A nice paper on microbial dark matter revealing that in situ devices increase coral's microbes culturability up to 570% is out on iScience 🧪. This device, initially used in soils, has proved to be useful in marine sponges and, now, in corals as well.
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Finally started migrating from X to bsky and hoping to connect with more people interested in #Bioinformatics 🧬💻. Thanks @amanzanom.bsky.social for all the tips so far and if someone out there have any good tips, please let me know!