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 🤩
#protistsonsky
@chrisgirardb.bsky.social Christine’s first manuscript is on BioRXiv! She investigated the CCDC40 protein in trypanosomes with superb expansion images and unexpected findings!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Did you know that Hexamita nelsoni occurs in blue mussels? Now you know 😂 see our paper here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #protistsonsky
If you want to read a cool story today, look no further:
A billion-year-old bacterial machinery replicates plastid DNA and supports kleptoplastidy #protistsonsky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
It is very hard to image small cells🔍 To combat this,we are doing Expansion Microscopy (ExM), a method which enlargens cells and makes it possible to see even small structures with high resolution!
Here are ~4x expanded Rhodomonas cells from our latest ExM session😄
#ExM #protist #scicommUU26
Expanded Karenia papiloniaceae with a zoom to his nice crystalline chromosomes 😍
Very excited to be sharing our new paper, just out in Nature Cell Biology!
The big question we investigate: How do migrating cells put their front 🔴 and back 🔵 in the right place?
Arcellinids are just like you and me
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"microtubule feeding tentacles"!
10/10
Perhaps aggregation is not an evolutionary dead end after all!
Perhaps it was one of the evolutionary experiments from which animal multicellularity emerged.
Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@icreacommunity.bsky.social
#AnimalOrigins #Evolution #Multicellularity
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Nature - A unicellular relative links aggregative multicellularity to animal origins
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...
Cellular structure self-organizes through an interplay between internal mechanisms and external cues. The single-celled suctorian P. collini builds a trap structure to capture large prey using microtubule feeding tentacles, creating feedback between cell morphology and prey availability.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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,...
