1/ Happy to share our latest work, now on bioRxiv! 🌱🍄
We explore how Serendipita indica effectors target root plastids and modulate plastidial metabolism through prion-like domains.
bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#plastids #plantmicrobe #chloroplasts
#plants
www.biorxiv.org
Ernesto Llamas
@talbotlabtsl.bsky.social
and I reviewed what we know about our favourite cereal killer and compared it to human-infecting relatives. Check it out! 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
What an amazing #Fungal26✨ Feeling very inspired– thank you to everyone who shared science and ideas! Thank you to the organisers for my poster award, @gensocuk.bsky.social for sponsoring my attendance and huge thank you @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social for these past years! I will miss the Talbot Lab.
Resequencing hundreds or thousands of individuals from the same species has become routine... but processing all those genomes efficiently? Still a headache!
Here's my solution that used to be lab-internal but that I am happy to share:
crolllab.github.io/genomepanel_...
🎉 📰 Very happy to share the journal publication of our manuscript "Plant-associated fungi co-opt ancient antimicrobials for host manipulation"! #ScienceAdvancesResearch @science.org
@teamthomma.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
New preprint out! 🚀
biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We mapped how septins organise infection in the rice blast fungus—and found they are far more dynamic than previously thought.
Thread 👇
#FungalPathogenesis #CellBiology #septins
The blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae is the causal agent of the most serious disease of cultivated rice and an emerging threat to wheat production. Controlling blast diseases is therefore critical t...
Our paper is now out in its final form in @natcomms.nature.com ! We show that ancient insect symbionts can undergo extreme, convergent genome reduction to as little as ~50 kb - driven by ecological shifts and symbiont replacement.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
More below 👇
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Nextflow pipeline for reference genome mapping, SNP calling and quality checks on large genome panels
For this month’s news roundup, we’re focusing on the awesome invertebrates that have hit the headlines in May!
Join us to discover deep sea creatures, shiny beetles and Sir David Attenborough’s own wasp! (1/4)🧵
Camilla Molinari
Daniel Croll
Effector recognition by molecular mimicry of its target by an NLR - enabling multiple disease resistance specificities to be generated- first seen on @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social - great work led by @dianagdlc.bsky.social and Matt Moscou
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Fantin Mesny
Symbiotic bacteria can have exceedingly small genomes. This study finds that ancient bacterial symbionts of planthoppers have repeatedly evolved the smallest known genomes, losing most biosynthetic fu...
Plants and animals respond to pathogen attack by mounting innate immune responses that require intracellular nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) proteins. These immune receptors detect pathog...
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...
