Xavier Grau-Bové 🌾
@xgrau.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist. Postdoctoral Fellow & LCF Junior Leader at CRG (Barcelona).
«Ara mateix enfilo aquesta agulla amb el fil d'un propòsit que no dic, i em poso a apedaçar»
xgrau.github.io & ecoevo.social/@xgrau
«Ara mateix enfilo aquesta agulla amb el fil d'un propòsit que no dic, i em poso a apedaçar»
xgrau.github.io & ecoevo.social/@xgrau
Hahaha I hadn’t thought of it this way…
November 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Hahaha I hadn’t thought of it this way…
These tech moguls are weird as heck. They make the old-fashioned capitalist villains (oil barons and the like) look sophisticated and enlightened by comparison…
October 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
These tech moguls are weird as heck. They make the old-fashioned capitalist villains (oil barons and the like) look sophisticated and enlightened by comparison…
… By contrast, solitary, heterotrophic corals with flexible depth and substrate preferences appear to have thrived in the deep sea despite these environmental disturbance events.»
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October 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
… By contrast, solitary, heterotrophic corals with flexible depth and substrate preferences appear to have thrived in the deep sea despite these environmental disturbance events.»
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«Symbiosis with photosynthetic dinoflagellates was established around 300 million years ago and spurred coral diversification. However, only a few photosymbiotic lineages survived major environmental disruptions in the Mesozoic era…
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October 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
«Symbiosis with photosynthetic dinoflagellates was established around 300 million years ago and spurred coral diversification. However, only a few photosymbiotic lineages survived major environmental disruptions in the Mesozoic era…
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(Psst, here's a gift link for the casual reader who might come across this post — maybe it expires after a while, I'm not sure).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The evolution of facultative symbiosis in stony corals
Nature - Genomic sequencing of the thermotolerant coral species Oculina patagonica, single-cell transcriptomic analyses of symbiotic and non-symbiotic specimens and comparisons with obligate...
www.nature.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:08 AM
(Psst, here's a gift link for the casual reader who might come across this post — maybe it expires after a while, I'm not sure).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Wow! What an elegant solution.
Silly question, probably, but… how does it compare to gzipping transposed matrices?
Silly question, probably, but… how does it compare to gzipping transposed matrices?
October 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Wow! What an elegant solution.
Silly question, probably, but… how does it compare to gzipping transposed matrices?
Silly question, probably, but… how does it compare to gzipping transposed matrices?
In the meantime, there's also a companion Github repository with the basic data and code to reproduce the analyses (including easily accessible processed expression matrices for each coral species).
github.com/xgrau/oculin...
github.com/xgrau/oculin...
GitHub - xgrau/oculina-coral-sc-atlas: Reproduce single-cell transcriptomic and comparative genomic analyses with Oculina patagonica and other corals
Reproduce single-cell transcriptomic and comparative genomic analyses with Oculina patagonica and other corals - xgrau/oculina-coral-sc-atlas
github.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
In the meantime, there's also a companion Github repository with the basic data and code to reproduce the analyses (including easily accessible processed expression matrices for each coral species).
github.com/xgrau/oculin...
github.com/xgrau/oculin...
If you want to learn more about the Biodiversity Cell Atlas, check out our recent white paper on this initiative, here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The Biodiversity Cell Atlas: mapping the tree of life at cellular resolution - Nature
The Biodiversity Cell Atlas aims to create comprehensive single-cell molecular atlases across the eukaryotic tree of life, which will be phylogenetically informed, rely on high-quality genomes and use...
www.nature.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
If you want to learn more about the Biodiversity Cell Atlas, check out our recent white paper on this initiative, here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...