Excited and proud to share our preprint!
A network of glycan sensing controls endosymbiosis in the protist, Paramecium bursaria 🦠 This includes an ancient eukaryote immune-like factor, and prokaryote proteins acquired via horizontal gene-transfer!
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https://t.co/6RWrXZ7xkH
The genetic repertoire of early eukaryotes was shaped by horizontal gene-transfer from broader microbial interactions, including viruses! Fascinating stuff @moigilbernabeu@Marcet45@MicroBioBits@toni_gabaldon
@VernCarruthers and I had a great time writing this review pondering the versatility of key adaptations common to #apicomplexans, #dinoflagellates and other myzozoans that have made this group so prolific and successful. (1/3)
https://t.co/RvIRPK1vDA
By using microscopy, genomics, transcriptomics and bioinformatics, @varsh_mathur and colleages present us a glimpse of a very understudied group of organisms like diatoms and their parasites.
#CGUE
new work: "Coral reef protection is fundamental to human rights" -> using a human rights framework to hasten protection of coral reefs & highlighting the strong ties to human well-being https://t.co/0upRDW35sa .. Kudos to @emmafcamp & co-authors! @UniKonstanz
Our study on Diphyllatea (CRuMs) is out! From our lovely trip to the South Pacific, we manage to get 4 new transcriptomes from cells found in freshwater crater lakes.
https://t.co/UooyacKa5i
📢 I’m hiring a 3yr postdoc
Interested in evolutionary origins of miRNA/RNAi in animals? Keen on working with early branching metazoans and unicellular relatives? Please join my lab 🧬 @thembauk
⏳Deadline 25th October 2024
ℹ️ Details: https://t.co/zWUsYlMJkd
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Excited and proud to share our preprint!
A network of glycan sensing controls endosymbiosis in the protist, Paramecium bursaria 🦠 This includes an ancient eukaryote immune-like factor, and prokaryote proteins acquired via horizontal gene-transfer!
1/10
https://t.co/6RWrXZ7xkH
Parasite, Fungal & Vector database resources will be coming back online … fill out the form at https://t.co/Q8mRxg03v2 to be kept informed, and an anonymous survey to help define the future
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Check out this preprint from @realBenJen et al! Genes acquired through HGT enable Paramecium to control its algal symbionts through a complex network of glycan sensing 🦠 Congratulations to all authors on this exciting discovery 🎉