JCarlos Villarreal
@jcarlosvillarreal.bsky.social
Panamanian, biologist, nature, symbiosis, bryophytes, hornworts, cycads, lichens, Bacurú Drõa, https://villarreal-lab.ibis.ulaval.ca, https://www.mcgill.ca/potvin-lab/bacuru
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Hornwort year: the pan-phylum genomes, the genomic underpinnings of the hornwort pyrenoid, the nuclear phylogeny using 234 genes and the most recent one using plastomes, led by Rui-Liang Zhu. doi.org/10.1111/nph.... ! I am glad to be part of all these collaborative papers.
Next week our guest speaker Dr. Lindsay McCulloch (UC Riverside) will be presenting her research: "Exploring missing pieces to our understanding of symbiotic nitrogen fixation: from ecosystems to individual plants"
November 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Next week our guest speaker Dr. Lindsay McCulloch (UC Riverside) will be presenting her research: "Exploring missing pieces to our understanding of symbiotic nitrogen fixation: from ecosystems to individual plants"
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Large-scale #hornwort plastomes unlock RNA editing, new species, and diversification history.
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Xu et al.
@WileyPlantSci
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Xu et al.
@WileyPlantSci
October 23, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Large-scale #hornwort plastomes unlock RNA editing, new species, and diversification history.
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Xu et al.
@WileyPlantSci
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Xu et al.
@WileyPlantSci
Hornwort year: the pan-phylum genomes, the genomic underpinnings of the hornwort pyrenoid, the nuclear phylogeny using 234 genes and the most recent one using plastomes, led by Rui-Liang Zhu. doi.org/10.1111/nph.... ! I am glad to be part of all these collaborative papers.
October 21, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Hornwort year: the pan-phylum genomes, the genomic underpinnings of the hornwort pyrenoid, the nuclear phylogeny using 234 genes and the most recent one using plastomes, led by Rui-Liang Zhu. doi.org/10.1111/nph.... ! I am glad to be part of all these collaborative papers.
a study that changes the paradigm of horizontal gene transfer across kingdoms, led by my former PhD supervisor Bernard Goffinet, congratulations to his team www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
a study that changes the paradigm of horizontal gene transfer across kingdoms, led by my former PhD supervisor Bernard Goffinet, congratulations to his team www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I am glad to share the latest paper by Adriel M. Sierra published in ISME Communications
on the "Assembly of nitrogen-fixing bacteria associated with epiphyllous liverworts in fragmented Amazonian tropical forest" doi.org/10.1093/isme...
on the "Assembly of nitrogen-fixing bacteria associated with epiphyllous liverworts in fragmented Amazonian tropical forest" doi.org/10.1093/isme...
Assembly and co-occurrence networks of nitrogen-fixing bacteria associated with epiphyllous liverworts in fragmented tropical forests
Abstract. Understanding the spatial dynamics of plant-associated microbial communities is increasingly urgent in the context of habitat loss and the biodiv
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September 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I am glad to share the latest paper by Adriel M. Sierra published in ISME Communications
on the "Assembly of nitrogen-fixing bacteria associated with epiphyllous liverworts in fragmented Amazonian tropical forest" doi.org/10.1093/isme...
on the "Assembly of nitrogen-fixing bacteria associated with epiphyllous liverworts in fragmented Amazonian tropical forest" doi.org/10.1093/isme...
I am glad to be part of the largest paper on bryophyte genomics. Spearheaded by Shanshan Dong and Yang Liu ( Fairy Lake Botanical Garden) presents: "A comprehensive super-pangenome analysis, incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte nuclear genomes......"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants - Nature Genetics
A super-pangenome analysis incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes reveals that bryophytes exhibit a larger number of unique and lineage-specific gene families than vascular plants.
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September 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I am glad to be part of the largest paper on bryophyte genomics. Spearheaded by Shanshan Dong and Yang Liu ( Fairy Lake Botanical Garden) presents: "A comprehensive super-pangenome analysis, incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte nuclear genomes......"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
a cute video on bryophytes www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAQ0...
The Life of the forest. Bryophytes
YouTube video by Forest Film Studio
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September 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
a cute video on bryophytes www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAQ0...
Un groupe français dont ma collègue Christelle Fraïsse (Université de Lille) fait partie vient de publier un article très intéressant sur les barrières entre les espèces de plantes et d'animaux ! Bravo à Chris, Camille et tous les autres ! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Rapid establishment of species barriers in plants compared with that in animals
Speciation, the process by which new reproductively isolated species emerge from ancestral populations, results from the gradual accumulation of barriers to gene flow within genomes. To date, the noti...
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September 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Un groupe français dont ma collègue Christelle Fraïsse (Université de Lille) fait partie vient de publier un article très intéressant sur les barrières entre les espèces de plantes et d'animaux ! Bravo à Chris, Camille et tous les autres ! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@pourlascience.bsky.social . Le volume parle de la matière noire, du chromosome X inactif. L'article sur la diversité des plantes était fascinant. Notre placette en Darien fait partie de FORESTGEO et nous y ferons certainement des découvertes fascinantes. www.pourlascience.fr/sd/ecologie/...
Comment les champignons et les animaux structurent la diversité des forêts
La dispersion des graines par les animaux et l’interaction avec les champignons jouent un rôle clé dans la répartition des arbres de différentes espèces dans les forêts.
www.pourlascience.fr
September 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
@pourlascience.bsky.social . Le volume parle de la matière noire, du chromosome X inactif. L'article sur la diversité des plantes était fascinant. Notre placette en Darien fait partie de FORESTGEO et nous y ferons certainement des découvertes fascinantes. www.pourlascience.fr/sd/ecologie/...
Quel bel article, intéressant et amusant ! @pourlascience.bsky.social www.pourlascience.fr/sd/neuroscie...
Eurêka ! L’intuition, moteur de la créativité
Pourquoi certains problèmes s’éclairent parfois soudainement ? Les neurosciences révèlent les mécanismes du « eurêka ! », et mettent en lumière le rôle crucial de l’intuition.
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September 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Quel bel article, intéressant et amusant ! @pourlascience.bsky.social www.pourlascience.fr/sd/neuroscie...
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🚨 Save the date! Thrilled to be co-organizing the next iteration of the @embl.org Symposium on the Cellular Mechanics of Symbiosis (📅 March 17-20), w/ @floravincent.bsky.social, @hassansalem.bsky.social & Tom Richards.
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#EESSymbiosis #Symbiosis #SymbioSky #MicroSky 🦠
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#EESSymbiosis #Symbiosis #SymbioSky #MicroSky 🦠
The cellular mechanics of symbiosis: sensing friend from foe
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September 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
🚨 Save the date! Thrilled to be co-organizing the next iteration of the @embl.org Symposium on the Cellular Mechanics of Symbiosis (📅 March 17-20), w/ @floravincent.bsky.social, @hassansalem.bsky.social & Tom Richards.
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
#EESSymbiosis #Symbiosis #SymbioSky #MicroSky 🦠
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#EESSymbiosis #Symbiosis #SymbioSky #MicroSky 🦠
Adriel Sierra defended his PHD. He worked on the impact on fragmentation on plant population genomics and microbial diversity and 2) the relationship between plant metabolome and microbes. His work can be found shorturl.at/DZgCU. Congratulations to Adriel and the best of luck on the way forward. 🌿
September 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Adriel Sierra defended his PHD. He worked on the impact on fragmentation on plant population genomics and microbial diversity and 2) the relationship between plant metabolome and microbes. His work can be found shorturl.at/DZgCU. Congratulations to Adriel and the best of luck on the way forward. 🌿
so cool !!
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Explore art & research projects at C-LAB.
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August 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
so cool !!
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Adriel M. Sierra published a paper on the impact of fragmentation in the Amazonian forests on plant demography and population genomics @ulaval.ca
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
August 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Adriel M. Sierra published a paper on the impact of fragmentation in the Amazonian forests on plant demography and population genomics @ulaval.ca
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
some news from the lab
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July 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
some news from the lab
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July 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
July 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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A big thank you to everyone who joined us for our 'Communicating your science to different audiences' with Colleen Iversen and Rich Norby yesterday!
The webinar is now available to watch on demand. Q&A is open until 14:30 BST (UTC+1), 19 July 2025.
⏯ cassyni.com/events/FASBv...
#SciComm
The webinar is now available to watch on demand. Q&A is open until 14:30 BST (UTC+1), 19 July 2025.
⏯ cassyni.com/events/FASBv...
#SciComm
July 18, 2025 at 10:14 AM
A big thank you to everyone who joined us for our 'Communicating your science to different audiences' with Colleen Iversen and Rich Norby yesterday!
The webinar is now available to watch on demand. Q&A is open until 14:30 BST (UTC+1), 19 July 2025.
⏯ cassyni.com/events/FASBv...
#SciComm
The webinar is now available to watch on demand. Q&A is open until 14:30 BST (UTC+1), 19 July 2025.
⏯ cassyni.com/events/FASBv...
#SciComm
and talking about hornworts: our paper got the cover of Annals of Botany, photo of Nothoceros endiviifolius (Chile) by Juan Larraín:
academic.oup.com/aob/article-...
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July 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
and talking about hornworts: our paper got the cover of Annals of Botany, photo of Nothoceros endiviifolius (Chile) by Juan Larraín:
academic.oup.com/aob/article-...
academic.oup.com/aob/article-...
I was reading a recent cool paper on the genomics of hornwort sex/"accessory" chromosomes (New Phytologist) and it never ceases to amaze me the tremendous knowledge that Johannes M. Proskauer had about the group. He'd be thrilled to see the hornwort research in this era. www.jstor.org/stable/3241446
Johannes Max Proskauer (1923-1970) on JSTOR
Johannes Max Proskauer (1923-1970), The Bryologist, Vol. 75, No. 2 (Summer, 1972), pp. 168-173
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July 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I was reading a recent cool paper on the genomics of hornwort sex/"accessory" chromosomes (New Phytologist) and it never ceases to amaze me the tremendous knowledge that Johannes M. Proskauer had about the group. He'd be thrilled to see the hornwort research in this era. www.jstor.org/stable/3241446
Congratulations @fernway.bsky.social - 2025 BSA Emergent Leader !! www.botany.org/home/awards/.... - well-deserved!
July 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Congratulations @fernway.bsky.social - 2025 BSA Emergent Leader !! www.botany.org/home/awards/.... - well-deserved!
A great study on mutualism by Guilaume Chomicki and colleagues
"Many symbioses involve one host species having several mutualist partners, yet theory predicts that unrelated symbionts lead to destabilizing conflict through competition for host resources. ...... " . www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
"Many symbioses involve one host species having several mutualist partners, yet theory predicts that unrelated symbionts lead to destabilizing conflict through competition for host resources. ...... " . www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Compartmentalization reduces conflict in multipartner plant-insect symbioses
Many symbioses involve one host species having several mutualist partners, yet theory predicts that unrelated symbionts lead to destabilizing conflict through competition for host resources. We combin...
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July 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
A great study on mutualism by Guilaume Chomicki and colleagues
"Many symbioses involve one host species having several mutualist partners, yet theory predicts that unrelated symbionts lead to destabilizing conflict through competition for host resources. ...... " . www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
"Many symbioses involve one host species having several mutualist partners, yet theory predicts that unrelated symbionts lead to destabilizing conflict through competition for host resources. ...... " . www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The most recent article from Lilisbeth Rodríguez-Castro, a former master's student, working on cycad phyllosphere
#cycads #phyllosphere #IUCN www.mdpi.com/2813-0464/4/...
#cycads #phyllosphere #IUCN www.mdpi.com/2813-0464/4/...
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July 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The most recent article from Lilisbeth Rodríguez-Castro, a former master's student, working on cycad phyllosphere
#cycads #phyllosphere #IUCN www.mdpi.com/2813-0464/4/...
#cycads #phyllosphere #IUCN www.mdpi.com/2813-0464/4/...
Our paper bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... was the most cited in the American Journal Of Botany in 2024! and the most downloaded with over 10,500 views ! It has been cited 74 times since December 2023 !
Comprehensive phylogenomic time tree of bryophytes reveals deep relationships and uncovers gene incongruences in the last 500 million years of diversification
Premise Bryophytes form a major component of terrestrial plant biomass, structuring ecological communities in all biomes. Our understanding of the evolutionary history of hornworts, liverworts, and ...
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July 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Our paper bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... was the most cited in the American Journal Of Botany in 2024! and the most downloaded with over 10,500 views ! It has been cited 74 times since December 2023 !