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Cool new approach by @david-gokhman.bsky.social @gilig.bsky.social @shaicarmi.bsky.social, seeking to extract more phenotypic information from genotypes & make accurate predictions concerning the direction of phenotypic difference 🧪🧬
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Predicting the direction of phenotypic difference - Nature Communications
Here authors reveal a method to predict key information on phenotypes - their direction. This is achievable even for phenotypes with incomplete genotype-to-phenotype mapping, and applicable for indivi...
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July 27, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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"Aboral cell types of Clytia and coral larvae have shared features and link taurine to the regulation of settlement" Kudos to Julia Ramon-Mateu and Anna Ferraioli @biodev-vlfr.bsky.social, and thanks to our collaborators for their coral larva expertise www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Aboral cell types of Clytia and coral larvae have shared features and link taurine to the regulation of settlement
Larvae of jellyfish and corals have specialized sensory cells with shared features potentially linked to settlement regulation.
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May 17, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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I had an issue with making updates to PhyloPic for a while. Finally resolved it today. New stuff! www.phylopic.org/images
All Silhouette Images on PhyloPic
Browse all the free silhouette images in PhyloPic.
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May 11, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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In #Okinawa, coastal fishermen now farm #coral, restoring #reefs like planting trees in a forest. With #ocean temperatures rising, half the world’s coral reefs have already vanished. These farmers are fighting back, one fragment at a time.

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April 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Our latest paper, in which @brinda.eu (along with @zaminiqbal.bsky.social and others) introduces phylogenetic compression for storage and search of enormous microbial genome libraries, was published today in @naturemethods.bsky.social:

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Efficient and robust search of microbial genomes via phylogenetic compression
Nature Methods - Phylogenetic compression achieves performant and lossless compression of massive collections of microbial genomes, facilitating fast BLAST-like search and versatile alignment tasks.
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April 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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CoverM is published!

CoverM: Read alignment statistics for metagenomics academic.oup.com/bioinformati... #jcampubs
CoverM: Read alignment statistics for metagenomics
AbstractSummary. Genome-centric analysis of metagenomic samples is a powerful method for understanding the function of microbial communities. Calculating r
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April 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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The emergence of eukaryotes as an evolutionary algorithmic phase transition www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #jcampubs
The emergence of eukaryotes as an evolutionary algorithmic phase transition | PNAS
The origin of eukaryotes represents one of the most significant events in evolution since it allowed the posterior emergence of multicellular organ...
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March 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Polypropylene. Autoclavable. Reusable. Fairly clear. One more polystyrene lab consumable eliminated? Let's find out!

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March 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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The path to dependence: stepwise genome evolution from a facultative symbiont to an endosymbiont in the N2-fixing diatom-Richelia symbioses www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs
March 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Elated to share our newly published paper that describes the potential link between prokaryotic microbiome dynamics and coral heat tolerance 🪸💪🏻🦠🔥 Yezz @jbquijano.bsky.social 🍻

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Microbiome Stability Is Linked to Acropora Coral Thermotolerance in Northwestern Philippines
This study describes the link between thermotolerance and prokaryotic microbiome dynamics in the coral, Acropora cf. tenuis. At ambient temperature, coral colonies host similar microbial communities....
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February 2, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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In a new Science study, researchers present CASTER, a tool that uses arrangements in DNA sequences known as site patterns to infer “species trees,” which are diagrams that depict the evolutionary relationships among species.

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CASTER: Direct species tree inference from whole-genome alignments
Genomes contain mosaics of discordant evolutionary histories, challenging the accurate inference of the tree of life. While genome-wide data are routinely used for discordance-aware phylogenomic analyses, due to modeling and scalability limitations, the...
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January 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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So cool!! “The only (known) vertebrate-alga endosymbiosis”!!!
An earlier paper has described this relationship “Intracellular invasion of green algae in a salamander host” www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... but being able to see the amazing details from microscope is just 🤩🤩🤩!! 🔬🧪
January 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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MEGA12: Molecular Evolutionary Genetic Analysis version 12 for adaptive and green computing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.10.627672v1
December 16, 2024 at 5:33 AM
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Nemo knows: clownfishes differentiate cryptic host species across fine and broad geographic scales and reveal a potential adaptive radiation in the clownfish-hosting sea anemones. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.15.623784v1
Nemo knows: clownfishes differentiate cryptic host species across fine and broad geographic scales and reveal a potential adaptive radiation in the clownfish-hosting sea anemones. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.15.623784v1
The symbiosis between clownfishes (or anemonefishes) and their host sea anemones ranks among the mos
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November 18, 2024 at 2:32 AM