Evolutionary and molecular biology seasoned with ecology
https://www.yehumoran.com/
Using mostly sea anemones and other cnidarians as my experimental model organisms. University Professor at HUJI and academic editor for EMBO Press. Opinions are my own.
Yehu Moran
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Editor perspective: finding 2–3 reviewers often means sending >20 invites. The peer-review system doesn’t run on magic. Worth remembering before clicking “decline” and later complaining about extremely slow reviews.
A very nice piece about our latest paper published in Open Biology by @royalsocietypublishing.org It's about how venom-producing stinging cells use chromatic modifications to determine their biochemical identity:
royalsociety.org/blog/2026/04...
Read how @embopress.org is expanding its focus on molecular ecology and evolution as central underpinnings of functions/interactions/diversification of biological systems – by @yehumoran.bsky.social, @berndpulverer.bsky.social, and our new team of Editorial Advisors
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Yehu Moran
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#Tel_Aviv still has a few things going for it in February.
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This Open Biology study uncovers how specialised stinging cells used for prey capture and defence, are regulated at a deeper level than ever before.
1/3 🚨New paper from our lab!🔥
Most textbooks will tell you that invertebrates employ #RNAi as antiviral mechanism. Yet, do 🪸🪼 actually do it? Well, the answer is complicated. We show that in #Nematostella dsRNA induces RNAi 🧵
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
2/3 Yet, their RNAi response is surprisingly short-lived and we show that most probably secondary siRNAs are not formed (good luck with proving 100% that something doesn't happen). This strongly suggests that RNAi takes part in the antiviral response in Cnidaria but in a limited capacity ->
3/3 shout out to Yael Admoni the PhD student who led this project with help from Rubi Aharoni and Magda Lewandowska and our amazing collaborators at the lab of Qi Chen (Utah)
Today the EMBO Journal special issue on molecular ecology and evolution is finally published.
It was a pleasure coordinating this collection together with @berndpulverer.bsky.social and many outstanding authors.
Editorial: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Cover art by @munafomarzia.bsky.social
Yehu Moran
The EMBO Journal - Molecular ecology and evolution are central to understanding how biological systems function, interact, and diversify. A special issue of this journal reflects the growing...
The EMBO Journal - Molecular ecology and evolution are central to understanding how biological systems function, interact, and diversify. A special issue of this journal reflects the growing...
RNA interference is an ancestral antiviral mechanism that degrades viral RNA through siRNAs, but its role in cnidarians has been unclear. This study shows that Nematostella vectensis likely possesses ...
Our SPECIAL ISSUE on MOLECULAR EVOLUTION & ECOLOGY is out!
Editorial: @yehumoran.bsky.social, @berndpulverer.bsky.social et al
Reviews on Asgard archaea, epimutations, giant-virus/host dynamics, smartphone analogy for animal origins…
…& many related primary articles
link.springer.com/journal/4431...
