Ooooh. Cool new paper on origins of life. A simple 45-nucleotide RNA molecule that can perfectly copy itself.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Photoholes within cyanobacterial mats can account for the origin of #anammox bacteria and ancient #nitrogen loss link.springer.com/article/10.1...
New online! Revisiting the life cycle of temperate phages
A must read! The constant and often irrational renaming of microbes is out of control, and bad for microbiology and microbiologists.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Visualizing pairwise genome comparisons? No need to run BLAST separately anymore! 🧬
#gbdraw has implemented #LOSAT, a WASM-powered Rust reimplementation of BLASTN/TBLASTX.
✅ No local installation
✅ No data transfer (Serverless)
Try it here: gbdraw.app
🧵 1/10 New paper out in @natmicrobiol.nature.com from my postdoc at @mib-wur.bsky.social! 🎉
How eukaryote-like was the archaeal ancestor of eukaryotes? Sequence searches alone can't tell us — so we used protein structure prediction to look deeper. 🧬
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Great fun presenting some of our research @otagomicroimmuno.bsky.social @universityofotago.bsky.social
Including transposon mutagenesis of phages.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
The plastic pollution crisis and unanswered questions about the increased risk of
—Cancer
jci.org/articles/vie...
—Neurodegenerative diseases
jci.org/articles/vie...
A jumbo cyanophage encodes the most complete ribosomal protein set in the known virosphere www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Organohalide respiration by a Desulforhopalus-dominated community academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #jcampubs