Big congrats to Susan Mullen and coauthors on this new preprint. 🎉
We're excited to share this work exploring microbial dispersal and establishment across river water, groundwater, soil, and hyporheic zone environments in the East River watershed.
Read the preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Congrats Alex!!
hetro-di-mers are released now.
(1/6) Thrilled to share this story! In our preprint from my PhD in the @kranzuschlab.bsky.social, with help from the Hatfull lab and @soreklab.bsky.social, we discover RyDEP, a phage-encoded RyR-domain glycosidase that allows phages to evade Thoeris defense. Highlights below! doi.org/10.64898/202...
Now live! Submit a 100 word proposal to win free #PacBio HiFi sequencing for #metagenomics. Long-read metagenomics is rapidly gaining traction and this is a great time to apply it to your research.
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@joshnhamm.bsky.social @ndombrowski.bsky.social @greening.bsky.social @luisvalentin.bsky.social et al. provide the first investigation into the enigmatic Terrarchaeota and insights into the evolution of high salt adaptation in Archaea.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag091
#evobio #molbio #microbeSky
As an editor at the Biochemical Journal, I'd love to see more papers submitted in the areas of bacterial immune systems / CRISPR / archaeal molecular biology / nucleic acid processing enzymes
www.biorxiv.org
Our paper "Gene ancestries reveal diverse microbial associations during eukaryogenesis.” is finally out in Nature.
Eukaryogenesis was likely a gradual process shaped by multiple microbial partners and virus-mediated gene transfer, rather than a single binary symbiosis.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Abstract. Environmental genomics has led to the discovery of many new lineages of archaea, including “DPANN” (or Nanobdellati), comprising organisms with s
1/ Our new paper in Systematic Biology "Modeling Site-and-Branch-Heterogeneity with GFmix" led by @cgpmcc.bsky.social describes improved ways to model compositional heterogeneity across both sites and branches—an important source of error in deep phylogenomics.
doi.org/10.1093/sysb...
The Banfield Lab
Miguel López Rivera
Luis E. Valentin-Alvarado
Molecular Biology and Evolution
Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦
Dan Portik
Sandpiper 2 is up. 913,000 metagenomic community profiles w @ace-gtdb.bsky.social R232, 200k more than 1.0. sandpiper.qut.edu.au
GlobDB coming.
Thanks to @aroneys.bsky.social @thepatientwait.bsky.social @iambrettb.bsky.social and especially the new kid @nhstefan.bsky.social
Abstract. Phylogenetic trees are often inferred from protein sequences sampled from diverse taxa across the tree of life. The compositions of these amino a
