Kassiani Panagiotou
kassipan.bsky.social
Kassiani Panagiotou
@kassipan.bsky.social
PhD candidate @Ettema lab | Laboratory of Microbiology (WUR)
🧂The placement of halophilic lineages was restored — Methanonatronarchaeia emerged outside Halobacteria, supporting independent origins of halophily
(in agreement with targeted analyses: doi.org/10.1038/s415... &
doi.org/10.1038/s415...)
July 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
→ The number of biased taxa dropped from 95.1% to just 2.3%
→ Pruning automatically stopped once further trimming risked loss of phylogenetic signal

Discrepancy between observed and expected amino acid frequencies in taxa:
July 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Excited to share our work on WitChi! 🛠️🖥️
We tested it on the GTDB r220 archaeal supermatrix (5,869 taxa & 10,101 cols) removing 55% of sites in <2h.

The phylogeny showed several interesting groupings with overall improved branch support:
#phylogenetics #ArchaeaSky #MSA #opensource #MEvoSky #MicroSky
July 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM