Jazmin Blaz
jazminblaz.bsky.social
Jazmin Blaz
@jazminblaz.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher | Microbial ecology, evolution, genomics and other curiosities.
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Check out our new paper on adopting a trait-based framework for protist diversity! We make the case for a unified protist trait database, how to build it, and how it could transform research on protist ecology and evolution.
#protistsonsky
Hello there 🦋
Happy to share our piece "Towards a trait-based framework for protist ecology and evolution" in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social

Let's build a unified trait 📏 database to unlock transformative insights into protist 🔬 ecology 🌍 and evolution ⏳

▶️ doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

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September 3, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Excited to share our new paper in @cellreports.bsky.social that reshapes our understanding of chromosome organization's deep evolutionary roots! Our work dives into the origins of the machinery that structures our very genomes.

🔗: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

#Genomics #Evolution #CellBiology #LECA
June 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Very happy to finally have this out! Thank you to my awesome PhD supervisors and all the co-authors!!
📣 We are proud of the publication of the second paper of @bbaker24.bsky.social PhD thesis. In collaboration with friends in Halifax we have studied the difficult question of the phylogeny of the DPANN archaea, composed of several phyla of highly reduced, fast-evolving epiparasites 🧵

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Phylogenomic analyses indicate the archaeal superphylum DPANN originated from free-living euryarchaeal-like ancestors
Nature Microbiology - Phylogenetic reconstructions with conserved protein markers from the 11 known DPANN phyla reveal their monophyletic placement within the Euryarchaeota.
rdcu.be
June 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Reposted by Jazmin Blaz
Cytosine Methylation is a marker of Viral Gene Transfer across the eukaryotes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.15.648976v1
April 16, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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You can read here our recent paper on the phylogeny of ancyromonads and apusomonads and how including them improves the inference of ancestral eukaryotic traits: authors.elsevier.com/c/1kDHa3QW8S...
@currentbiology.bsky.social
December 5, 2024 at 4:30 PM