Hoyaboya
@hoyaboya1.bsky.social
Interested in phylogeny and evolution of metazoans and related topics
化石・現生問わず，後生動物（動物）の初期（主にカンブリア紀以前）の系統・進化などに強い興味を持っています．形態系統学や分子系統学の理論や手法などにも関心があります．
More active in https://x.com/Hoyaboya11
化石・現生問わず，後生動物（動物）の初期（主にカンブリア紀以前）の系統・進化などに強い興味を持っています．形態系統学や分子系統学の理論や手法などにも関心があります．
More active in https://x.com/Hoyaboya11
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Hoyaboya
@hoyaboya1.bsky.social
· Oct 5
There's a Discord server where people discuss fossil & extant invertebrates - from art and culture to academic topics. New papers sometimes get shared quickly (when someone notices).
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化石・現生の無脊椎動物に関するサブカルや学術的な話題について語り合っているDiscordサーバーがあります（会話は英語です）．新たに出た論文もすぐに共有されたり（誰かが見つけたら）．注意：メンバーはほぼアマチュアで，かなりカジュアル／カオスな雰囲気なので，変なミームや投稿，型破りな仮説なども飛び交っています．参加希望の方はDMでご連絡ください．
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✨ A study in nature.com from our Faculty at @unikarlova.cuni.cz reveals Solarion arienae, a rare #protist forming a newly identified eukaryotic supersroup Disparia. A unique window into early #eukaryotic cell #evolution. 🌍🔬👏
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
✨ A study in nature.com from our Faculty at @unikarlova.cuni.cz reveals Solarion arienae, a rare #protist forming a newly identified eukaryotic supersroup Disparia. A unique window into early #eukaryotic cell #evolution. 🌍🔬👏
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Is it a flagellate? A tiny ball with tentacles? Contamination in my ciliate culture? NEW SUPERGROUP OF EUKARYOTES? Yes to all 4! Meet Solarion - just out in #Nature doi.org/10.1038/s415... Huge congrats to Marek Valt, Cepicka Lab & the star team! Very happy to be part of this project. #ProtistsOnSky
November 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Is it a flagellate? A tiny ball with tentacles? Contamination in my ciliate culture? NEW SUPERGROUP OF EUKARYOTES? Yes to all 4! Meet Solarion - just out in #Nature doi.org/10.1038/s415... Huge congrats to Marek Valt, Cepicka Lab & the star team! Very happy to be part of this project. #ProtistsOnSky
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I’ve released a tool to sketch and edit phylogenetic trees!
yawak.jp/PhyloWeaver/
Load a Newick file and intuitively add/remove/resize branches.
Useful for quick conceptual trees, extracting subtrees, or turning ideas into Newick.
yawak.jp/PhyloWeaver/
Load a Newick file and intuitively add/remove/resize branches.
Useful for quick conceptual trees, extracting subtrees, or turning ideas into Newick.
PhyloWeaver – Interactive phylogenetic tree editor
Edit and visualize phylogenetic trees directly in your browser. PhyloWeaver lets you interactively rearrange tree topologies and export high-quality figures for publications and presentations.
yawak.jp
November 18, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I’ve released a tool to sketch and edit phylogenetic trees!
yawak.jp/PhyloWeaver/
Load a Newick file and intuitively add/remove/resize branches.
Useful for quick conceptual trees, extracting subtrees, or turning ideas into Newick.
yawak.jp/PhyloWeaver/
Load a Newick file and intuitively add/remove/resize branches.
Useful for quick conceptual trees, extracting subtrees, or turning ideas into Newick.
Reposted by Hoyaboya
Thread on today's paper, which is 3/4 from my dissertation on the evolution of fishes and using morphological data for phylogenetic analyses. Come with me, on a journey on phylogenetics and fishes.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
An ontological morphological phylogenetic framework for living and extinct ray‐finned fishes (Actinopterygii)
The ray-finned fishes include one out of every two species of living vertebrates on Earth and have an abundant fossil record stretching 380 million years into the past. The division of systematic kno...
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Thread on today's paper, which is 3/4 from my dissertation on the evolution of fishes and using morphological data for phylogenetic analyses. Come with me, on a journey on phylogenetics and fishes.
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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MEGA 12.1: Cross-Platform Release for macOS and Linux Operating Systems https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41247409/
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
MEGA 12.1: Cross-Platform Release for macOS and Linux Operating Systems https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41247409/
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Our analyses converge on a narrow archaeal root region at/near the base of the Euryarchaeota, supporting hypotheses in which the Last Archaeal Common Ancestor was a complex, free-living (hyper-)thermophilic methanogen.
November 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Our analyses converge on a narrow archaeal root region at/near the base of the Euryarchaeota, supporting hypotheses in which the Last Archaeal Common Ancestor was a complex, free-living (hyper-)thermophilic methanogen.
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In this project, we investigated the root of Archaea using a range of phylogenetic approaches, including the best available site- and branch-heterogeneous substitution models, and new gene tree-species tree reconciliation models.
doi.org/10.1093/bioi...
doi.org/10.1093/bioi...
AleRax: a tool for gene and species tree co-estimation and reconciliation under a probabilistic model of gene duplication, transfer, and loss
AbstractMotivation. Genomes are a rich source of information on the pattern and process of evolution across biological scales. How best to make use of that
doi.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
In this project, we investigated the root of Archaea using a range of phylogenetic approaches, including the best available site- and branch-heterogeneous substitution models, and new gene tree-species tree reconciliation models.
doi.org/10.1093/bioi...
doi.org/10.1093/bioi...
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Xiaolantianella longibicaudatus Guo et al., 2016 is a poorly known fossil ecdysozoan from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Biota, originally reported in a Chinese journal with poor discoverability. It is considered to belong to the extant priapulidan subfamily Priapulinae.
November 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Xiaolantianella longibicaudatus Guo et al., 2016 is a poorly known fossil ecdysozoan from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Biota, originally reported in a Chinese journal with poor discoverability. It is considered to belong to the extant priapulidan subfamily Priapulinae.
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化石・現生の無脊椎動物に関するサブカルや学術的な話題について語り合っているDiscordサーバーがあります（会話は英語です）．新たに出た論文もすぐに共有されたり（誰かが見つけたら）．注意：メンバーはほぼアマチュアで，かなりカジュアル／カオスな雰囲気なので，変なミームや投稿，型破りな仮説なども飛び交っています．参加希望の方はDMでご連絡ください．
There's a Discord server where people discuss fossil & extant invertebrates - from art and culture to academic topics. New papers sometimes get shared quickly (when someone notices).
(1/2)
(1/2)
October 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
化石・現生の無脊椎動物に関するサブカルや学術的な話題について語り合っているDiscordサーバーがあります（会話は英語です）．新たに出た論文もすぐに共有されたり（誰かが見つけたら）．注意：メンバーはほぼアマチュアで，かなりカジュアル／カオスな雰囲気なので，変なミームや投稿，型破りな仮説なども飛び交っています．参加希望の方はDMでご連絡ください．
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Fair warning: the members are mostly amateurs, and the server has a pretty casual/chaotic vibe, so expect weird memes, shitposts, and some unorthodox hypotheses. Please DM me if you'd like to join!
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October 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Fair warning: the members are mostly amateurs, and the server has a pretty casual/chaotic vibe, so expect weird memes, shitposts, and some unorthodox hypotheses. Please DM me if you'd like to join!
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There's a Discord server where people discuss fossil & extant invertebrates - from art and culture to academic topics. New papers sometimes get shared quickly (when someone notices).
(1/2)
(1/2)
October 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
There's a Discord server where people discuss fossil & extant invertebrates - from art and culture to academic topics. New papers sometimes get shared quickly (when someone notices).
(1/2)
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Rugoconites reguibatensis Hachour et al., 2023 is a purportedly probable scyphozoan medusa from the Cryogenian (or the Tonian) (!?) It would be the oldest known metazoan if verified...
November 14, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Rugoconites reguibatensis Hachour et al., 2023 is a purportedly probable scyphozoan medusa from the Cryogenian (or the Tonian) (!?) It would be the oldest known metazoan if verified...
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Happy to share Jialin's first publication. She did a great job exploring the transition to land in animals. Co-supervised by the great Jordi Paps and me and in collaboration with Davide Pisani and @phil-donoghue.bsky.social
Nature research paper: Convergent genome evolution shaped the emergence of terrestrial animals
go.nature.com/4i0i61w
go.nature.com/4i0i61w
Convergent genome evolution shaped the emergence of terrestrial animals - Nature
Comparisons of 154 genomes from 21 animal phyla and outgroups have been used to reconstruct ancestral adaptation to life on land across 11 distinct terrestrialization events, revealing strong evidence for convergent genomic evolution across the animal kingdom and recurring periods of terrestrial colonization.
go.nature.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Happy to share Jialin's first publication. She did a great job exploring the transition to land in animals. Co-supervised by the great Jordi Paps and me and in collaboration with Davide Pisani and @phil-donoghue.bsky.social
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This is the quote I am thinking of:
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At an extreme, the debate has perhaps revealed more about the effects of phylogenetic modeling approaches, data curation, and their intersection on the results of phylogenomic analyses than about animal relationships.
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At an extreme, the debate has perhaps revealed more about the effects of phylogenetic modeling approaches, data curation, and their intersection on the results of phylogenomic analyses than about animal relationships.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:36 AM
This is the quote I am thinking of:
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At an extreme, the debate has perhaps revealed more about the effects of phylogenetic modeling approaches, data curation, and their intersection on the results of phylogenomic analyses than about animal relationships.
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At an extreme, the debate has perhaps revealed more about the effects of phylogenetic modeling approaches, data curation, and their intersection on the results of phylogenomic analyses than about animal relationships.
"""
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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/...
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/...
November 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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/...
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/...
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Nature research paper: Convergent genome evolution shaped the emergence of terrestrial animals
go.nature.com/4i0i61w
go.nature.com/4i0i61w
Convergent genome evolution shaped the emergence of terrestrial animals - Nature
Comparisons of 154 genomes from 21 animal phyla and outgroups have been used to reconstruct ancestral adaptation to life on land across 11 distinct terrestrialization events, revealing strong evidence for convergent genomic evolution across the animal kingdom and recurring periods of terrestrial colonization.
go.nature.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Nature research paper: Convergent genome evolution shaped the emergence of terrestrial animals
go.nature.com/4i0i61w
go.nature.com/4i0i61w
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My book 'The Tree of Life' is published in the USA and Canada today.
Available as book, on kindle and as audio.
I would be really grateful for reposts.
www.amazon.com/Tree-Life-So...
www.amazon.ca/Tree-Life-So...
Available as book, on kindle and as audio.
I would be really grateful for reposts.
www.amazon.com/Tree-Life-So...
www.amazon.ca/Tree-Life-So...
November 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
My book 'The Tree of Life' is published in the USA and Canada today.
Available as book, on kindle and as audio.
I would be really grateful for reposts.
www.amazon.com/Tree-Life-So...
www.amazon.ca/Tree-Life-So...
Available as book, on kindle and as audio.
I would be really grateful for reposts.
www.amazon.com/Tree-Life-So...
www.amazon.ca/Tree-Life-So...
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Mitochondrial gene phylogenetic incongruencies are linked to chromosomal position and function https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41208259/
November 11, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Mitochondrial gene phylogenetic incongruencies are linked to chromosomal position and function https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41208259/
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Chromosomes point to Lophophorate monophyly
www.cell.com/current-biol...
I wonder what this topology means for the origins of Bryozoans?
www.cell.com/current-biol...
I wonder what this topology means for the origins of Bryozoans?
Phoronid genome supports a monophyletic Lophophorata
The definition and membership of Lophophorata, including brachiopods, phoronids, and
bryozoans, have been debated for over a century. Lewin et al. show that phoronids
and bryozoans share multiple deri...
www.cell.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Chromosomes point to Lophophorate monophyly
www.cell.com/current-biol...
I wonder what this topology means for the origins of Bryozoans?
www.cell.com/current-biol...
I wonder what this topology means for the origins of Bryozoans?
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Lophophorata is monophyletic!
Super excited to see this work out in Current Biology - we sequenced a phoronid genome and used shared chromosome fusions to confirm the monophyly of Lophophorata.
A big team effort from the Luo Lab @yjluo.bsky.social!
More here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m3mV3QW8S...
Super excited to see this work out in Current Biology - we sequenced a phoronid genome and used shared chromosome fusions to confirm the monophyly of Lophophorata.
A big team effort from the Luo Lab @yjluo.bsky.social!
More here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m3mV3QW8S...
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Lophophorata is monophyletic!
Super excited to see this work out in Current Biology - we sequenced a phoronid genome and used shared chromosome fusions to confirm the monophyly of Lophophorata.
A big team effort from the Luo Lab @yjluo.bsky.social!
More here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m3mV3QW8S...
Super excited to see this work out in Current Biology - we sequenced a phoronid genome and used shared chromosome fusions to confirm the monophyly of Lophophorata.
A big team effort from the Luo Lab @yjluo.bsky.social!
More here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m3mV3QW8S...
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Seventy-five Years of Systematic Biology: Looking Back, Moving Forward https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41206670/
November 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Seventy-five Years of Systematic Biology: Looking Back, Moving Forward https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41206670/
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Happy to share our last paper in PNAS! Woo-hoo! 🥳
This article supports once more the hypothesis that sponges (and therefore animals) emerged about 100 million years before the Cambrian, and before we find any animal fossils.
www.pnas.org/doi/suppl/10...
This article supports once more the hypothesis that sponges (and therefore animals) emerged about 100 million years before the Cambrian, and before we find any animal fossils.
www.pnas.org/doi/suppl/10...
Chemical characterization of C31 sterols from sponges and Neoproterozoic fossil sterane counterparts | PNAS
Putative metazoan body fossils from the Precambrian are curiously lacking morphological
characteristics that link them unambiguously to extant anim...
www.pnas.org
November 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Happy to share our last paper in PNAS! Woo-hoo! 🥳
This article supports once more the hypothesis that sponges (and therefore animals) emerged about 100 million years before the Cambrian, and before we find any animal fossils.
www.pnas.org/doi/suppl/10...
This article supports once more the hypothesis that sponges (and therefore animals) emerged about 100 million years before the Cambrian, and before we find any animal fossils.
www.pnas.org/doi/suppl/10...
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Pleased to share our latest paper led by @tomlewin.bsky.social, now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! We present the first chromosome-level genome of a phoronid and show that shared chromosomal fusions unite phoronids and bryozoans as sister groups.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
November 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Pleased to share our latest paper led by @tomlewin.bsky.social, now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! We present the first chromosome-level genome of a phoronid and show that shared chromosomal fusions unite phoronids and bryozoans as sister groups.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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TL,DR:
* Telford’s expertise and voice shine through
* I think fossils are more useful than portrayed, and would have represented historical figures in evolutionary biology differently
* It’s a fun and informative guide to the wonder and wizardry of phylogenetics ✨
* Telford’s expertise and voice shine through
* I think fossils are more useful than portrayed, and would have represented historical figures in evolutionary biology differently
* It’s a fun and informative guide to the wonder and wizardry of phylogenetics ✨
November 6, 2025 at 8:12 AM
TL,DR:
* Telford’s expertise and voice shine through
* I think fossils are more useful than portrayed, and would have represented historical figures in evolutionary biology differently
* It’s a fun and informative guide to the wonder and wizardry of phylogenetics ✨
* Telford’s expertise and voice shine through
* I think fossils are more useful than portrayed, and would have represented historical figures in evolutionary biology differently
* It’s a fun and informative guide to the wonder and wizardry of phylogenetics ✨