Tom Williams (tweethinking.bsky.social)

Phylogenetics, bioinformatics, molecular and microbial evolution.

[Hend Abu-Elmakarem @Hypatia_EG]

Microbial #eukaryotes have a fascinating evolutionary history and are our windows to learning about early eukaryotic life.
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First peek into our #preprint on the #transcriptome of a free-living relative of trichomonas and analysis of how/if they differ!
https://t.co/RHrgpvFsnG

[Georg Hochberg @KaHochberg]

Our latest preprint: @Sriramgarg calculate a general substitution matrix for structural phylogenetics and used it to root the tree of life.
https://t.co/41a20Bx1SB 1/n

[Julian Vosseberg @JulianVosseberg]

Many novel Asgard genomes, cultivated Lokiarchaeia, new phylogenetic analyses: what insights do these and other recent studies provide into the enigmatic origin of eukaryotes? In this review in @Nature , we discuss the latest findings and open questions: https://t.co/LnGcoz50ot

[Tom Williams (tweethinking.bsky.social) @tweethinking]

https://t.co/UNX94rMwJL This looks interesting --- a meaty paper on a difficult question. Congratulations to all the authors!

[Bacille Diderm Beaud @BasileBeaud]

Happy to share a chapter of my PhD thesis🐣! We review the diversity of the cell envelope in Terrabacteria which tell us a lot about outer membrane biogenesis and the diderm-to-monoderm transition. Thanks to my co-authors Najwa Taib @ChrisBel70 @SGribaldo
https://t.co/Drk8a90KKn

[Tom Williams (tweethinking.bsky.social) @tweethinking]

@KaHochberg Awesome! Congrats Georg!

[Andrew J. Roger (@andrewjroger.bsky.social) @andrewjroger]

Can free-living eukaryotes exist without mitochondria? In a new paper from my group led by @retortacarp, we show that the answer is probably yes!
https://t.co/ghIHH273vQ

[Tom Williams (tweethinking.bsky.social) @tweethinking]

@andrewjroger Yes, it's a definite possibility. It would help to nail down the species tree, root, and the origins of the various genes, however...

[Alistair Hetherington @NP_EiC]

Plants growing in extreme conditions – like algae on ice – can provide insights into the evolution of alternative solutions to old problems, like responses to UV stress. An excellent Commentary by Cäcilia F. Kunz et al. on recent work by Bowles et al.: https://t.co/h1ur1AXYPO

[Phil Donoghue @glpcjd]

Registration open for free meeting @royalsociety Nov 11-12 "Chance and purpose in the evolution of biospheres" on the coevolution of Life and Earth - as well as other planets. Organised by @glpcjd @anjspa1 @gramolius Samir Okasha and Tim Lenton. Register:
https://t.co/TrOgi5vuxl

[Tom Williams (tweethinking.bsky.social) @tweethinking]

...and provide some pointers for trying out the methods. Many thanks to co-authors @sllsi @PhilHugenholtz @anjspa1 @eme_laura @Paul__Sheridan Adrian Davin @AlexisCompBio @wwood @micecoevo @drenal_eu @RochelleSoo1 Noah Wahl

[Tom Williams (tweethinking.bsky.social) @tweethinking]

Our review article about phylogenetic (gene tree-species tree) reconciliation is out. We make the case that reconciliation methods provide a natural framework for modelling/studying microbial evolution, summarise some previous work...

https://t.co/huzZJZJVIY

[Akos T. Kovacs @EvolvedBiofilm]

Phylogenetic reconciliation: making the most of genomes to understand microbial ecology and evolution

@ISMEJournal from @sllsi
with @PhilHugenholtz @anjspa1 @micecoevo @Paul__Sheridan @eme_laura @RochelleSoo1 @wwood @drenal_eu

https://t.co/pWKtIBq0mD

[Tom Williams (tweethinking.bsky.social) @tweethinking]

Very happy to have been part of this project!

[Diorge Souza @diorge_souza]

We're thrilled to share our new preprint: "Evolutionarily Conserved Principles of ESCRT-III-Mediated Membrane Remodeling Revealed by a Two-Subunit Asgard Archaeal System."

https://t.co/1SboXsSj81

[Chris Greening @greeninglab]

In our new paper at Cell (@CellCellPress), we reveal secrets of how the third form of life, archaea, make energy. We uncover new lineages of hydrogen-using enzymes, both minimal and complex. These help archaea thrive in all sorts of extreme environments. https://t.co/ZQzYemOI3o

[Alex Bowles @_AlexBowles]

Delighted to see the work from my postdoc at @BristolUni on algal evolution on ice and land out in @NewPhyt

@tweethinking | @glpcjd | Doug Campbell | @MicroLabBristo1

@Bristol_Glac | @BristolPalaeo

https://t.co/cW0L7BFupQ

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[C Santana Molina @carlosSantanaMS]

Happy to share our preprint about the evolution of Glycolysis and TCA cycle, demonstrating that eukaryotic metabolism also have archaeal origins and underwent a highly dynamic evolution. Special thanks to Anja Spang and Berend Snel for promoting this interesting project! @anjspa1

[Tanja Stadler @TanjaStadler_CH]

DECODING GENOMES - from sequences to phylodynamics: We are proud to present our book on how to analyse genomic sequences with an evolutionary perspective. See https://t.co/seRPOVuCyi for a free pdf, Amazon links for print orders, and further information. Great team effort 1/2

[Conor Meehan @con_meehan]

Our oral microbiome evolution from ancient DNA data review is out!
Led by @GDahlquistAxe and @fstandeven193 with @DrATedder and Camilla Speller, published in MGEN @MicrobioSoc and of interest to @spaam_community and others in microbiome evolution or aDNA.
https://t.co/0fdpZYpC8J