They got the idea from this guy.

So cool. Ciliates are the most amazing single cell critters. They do such complex things. Keep the fun biology coming.

Great piece. Makes good sense to optimise the clock to the growing environment. Is it simple to breed for clock traits?

I enjoyed these preprints. I like your approach ranging from genome mining, phylogeny, microscopy, and genetics to establish function. Lovely work. I found it ironic that the Chloroflexata had to again reinvent a signal transfer protein from the
chemotaxis system to steer with the archaellum.

Wow, surprising that a wholesale swap of propulsion mechanism across Domains is possible.

Slow growth was always a very limiting factor in studying Paulinella. This could be a game changer @thealgaeman.bsky.social

A colleague has one of these in Seattle and loves it. Strong cooperative body because everyone lives in their building and all seek to make it a nice home.

Wow, cool findings.

True. What scenarios worry you most? I believe there is larval cannibalism, so that is a plausible mechanism for a drive to jump from malaria transmitting Anopheles to other species of mosquito.

I think about mosquitoes like this. Adults don’t grow, they do little ecologically other than pollination and be food for bats, we fixate on the adults because they bite us & spread very serious diseases.The larval stages are massively important in aquatic ecosystems but get scant attention.

Congratulations Yash. Nice paper.

Oddly enough, our isn’t the apicoplast article. 🙃

Always an excellent experience publishing with you Pengfei.

Additionally, the Manhattan Project cost ~$35b in today’s dollars. Many argue that there was an economic factor in the decision to use it.

SLJ also does advertising for online gambling, just saying.

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Emiliana huxleyi and Dinophysis sp in the top row and maybe a radiolarian skeleton bottom right. Stumped by the bottom left. Foram 🤔

These are lovely. For sale?