Today marks 30 years since we identified the apicoplast, a relict plastid in human and animal parasites (PMID 8632819). Apicoplasts are the target of the widely used antimalarial prophylactic doxycycline, which has saved many thousands of malaria infections.
By mapping protein networks in an ancient ancestor of all complex life, a U. of Texas at Austin-led team found new genes connected to three rare disorders. It might yield hundreds more. New study in Cell Genomics cns.utexas.edu/news/researc... @edwardmarcotte.bsky.social @jbwallingford.bsky.social
How predictable is evolution? Replicated C. elegans experiments show environmental differences and population bottlenecks jointly shape the repeatability of adaptation doi.org/10.1093/evle... Image credit: Wikimedia
Our work on Trichoplax locomotion and mechanosensing capabilities is out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social.
Congrats Marvin Leria & all co-authors!
authors.elsevier.com/c/1n8Ig3QW8S...
A fossil nervous system meets modern neurobiology.
We found that a living comb jelly preserves neural architecture remarkably similar to those inferred from Cambrian fossils over 500 million years old 🤩.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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from "Ueber den Sarcodekörper der Rhizopoden" (Haeckel 1865) From a 1864 visit to Villefranche-sur-Mer - The lost art of scientific illustration - #protistsonsky
The first paper from #theLifeOfRetaria is out!
doi.org/10.1002/bies...
This was a very fun and enriching process, as it has been the last 2 years of our Seminar Series 🤩
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Texas Science
Evolution Letters
Raphaël Clément
Geoff McFadden
Pawel Burkhardt
those who enjoyed our story of 𝘐. 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴, which was found in Hot Springs Creek in Lassen Volcanic National Park, can prepeare for an exciting continuation! no spoiler here, but 𝘍𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘦𝘣𝘢 cousins were now found at an, well... unexpected locaction. read below👇
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NEW results on the #geometry of "knowing" in #LLMs
Where does an LLM's "I'm just guessing" live? Its "I'm fabricating"? Its "I'm deriving step by step"?
The answer is in distinct areas of #activation space -- and this shared geometry of #epistemic states is observed across diverse #OS models.
It is easy to think that sea squirts only display simple behaviors and do not significantly interact with their environment 🌊 New research lead by @olegtolstenkov.bsky.social, Sissel Norland and @mchatzigeorgiou.bsky.social proves this assumption wrong 👏⤵
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New research on the sea squirt Ciona intestinalis challenges the view that animals living fixed in place have simple behaviors and limited responses to their environment.
by Christoph — ...and feel right at home in a tributary of Hot Springs Creek in LVNP (California, USA), where temperatures range between 49 °C and 65 °C. You are now going to learn a little bit ab…
smallthingsconsidered.blog
John Dolan
Miguel Méndez Sandín
🧬Jacob L Steenwyk
STCmicrobeblog
Michael Sars Centre
We got our first common paper out #theLifeOfRetaria with @sandinmm.bsky.social , @raphaelmorard.bsky.social, @nicolecoots.bsky.social, @mattgr3co.bsky.social, Nicolaas Glock and Natalia Llopis-Monferrer - first product of our seminar series!
check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Did you know that thermophilic amoeba have been isolated by researchers at Syracuse University from a steam vent at SUNY ESF? artsandsciences.syracuse.edu/biology/news...
You can visit this geyser of the built environment when you come to our first fall meeting, held at SUNY ESF this year!
Research on Foraminifera and Radiolaria has predominantly focused on their fossil remains. This synthesis identifies the “Big Five” disciplines of a unified Retaria research: diversity and evolution,...
