What if we could put all tailed phages in a single, evolutionarily meaningful phylogeny? Check out the latest from the Aylward Lab (twitterless) and myself - we present a phylogenomic framework toward unifying phage diversity! 🧬🤝 https://t.co/rIlF8nS1St
Congrats to @chang_tianyi @julesinboots @stepanausk8197 on helping the environmental microbiology community better understand the strengths and weaknesses of SAGs versus MAGs! Using either/both data types? Read this to more accurately interpret your data https://t.co/QGJuKLKxtD
How many SAR11 cells are phage-infected in the environment? And what are zombies🧟♂️?
We studied phage infection in SAR11 using the🔬. Up to 19% of SAR11 cells were phage infected and many host cells were devoid of ribosomes🧟♂️!
What else did we find? A 🧵
https://t.co/Q4MT2J2aQc
Super cool paper from Ernie Osburn, @Gaowen_Yang@mrillig and @strickm27 showing that alpha-diversity relationships with soil ecosystem function are non-causal.
Instead of asking “did you feed the cat her wet food?”, we ask “were you the hero today?” And I’m only now realizing how sad it is that we have to exaggerate our importance to her to convince ourselves she needs us bc cats
New paper alert!🌋🌊🧬🦠 I'm so excited to share our paper "Viruses interact with hosts that span distantly related microbial domains in dense hydrothermal mats" 1/ https://t.co/HtPUWbFvbL
@aatendu Ahhh cool! Just saw from a reply that a “monas” is a type of protist. Is that the real ones you’re referring to? Or is there another “Monas” (my mind keeps wanting to connect this all to Mona Lisa, but I know there’s nothing to connect😆🫠)