PhD candidate @anja1.bsky.social group @NIOZ and @UvA 🇳🇱. Interested in molecular evolution, Archaea and cell biology. https://w-huang.com
Wen-Cong Huang
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Our preprint on the 'Origins of Eukaryotic Metabolism' is out! Take a look at some of the new findings on the origin of eukaryotic membranes, metabolic integrations between archaeal and bacterial ancestors, and other fascinating prokaryotic interactions during eukaryogenesis.
doi.org/10.64898/202...
doi.org
An Asgard archaeon from a modern analog of ancient microbial mats (Current Biology)
Beautiful microscopy of an Asgard archaeon, in the same family as Lokiarchaea, in syntrophy with a sulfate-reducing bacteria
Very very nice paper we saw in preprint form:
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Carlos Santana Molina
Preprint out!
Anaerobic methanotrophs are key methane oxidizers, but their activity/adaptation under acidic conditions remains unclear. We show that a freshwater ANME adapts to pH stress via shifts in lipid composition and remains metabolically active down to pH 5.65. Expanding the niche of ANME.
Grab a coffee and enjoy reading up on CO metabolism in methanotrophs!
Freshwater ANME (own work):
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Marine ANME (@Orphan lab):
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Big thanks to our collaborators at QUT!
@sjmcilroy.bsky.social (Heyu/Andy/Gene!) @cuwelte.bsky.social
Our work on 'hidden diversity' in unbinned contigs is now published in @natmicrobiol.nature.com :
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
See the linked threads for more details!
Immensely rewarding part of this work was working with Indigenous language experts and elders in the naming of our species of Asgard….’marumarumayae’ derived from the Malgana language from the people of Gathaagudu (#Shark Bay)
IQ-TREE 3: Phylogenomic Inference Software using Complex Evolutionary Models academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
MBE is excited to launch our newest Call for Papers on the Major Transitions of Life, covering all aspects of phylogenomic research.
🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/pages/call-for-papers-on-the-major-transitions-of-life
Guest Editors:
Davide Pisani
Anja Spang
#evobio #molbio #phylogenetics
Carbon monoxide metabolism in freshwater anaerobic methanotrophic archaea
->Nature | More on "Archaea CO methane oxidation metabolism" at BigEarthData.ai | #Freshwater
Alex Crits-Christoph
New paper in mSystems! 🧵 - how much of your metagenome is actually bacterial/archaeal DNA? For many samples, nobody knows.
We built SingleM prokaryotic_fraction (SPF) to answer this, then ran it on >100,000 public metagenomes. 🧬🖥️🦠
Here's what we found 👇
doi.org/10.1128/msystems.01062-25
Abstract. IQ-TREE (https://iqtree.github.io/) is a widely used open-source software tool for efficiently inferring phylogenetic trees under maximum likelih
Climate, Ecology, War & More - Dr Glen Barry BigEarthData.ai
Ben J Woodcroft
Anaerobic methane-oxidizing archaea mitigate methane emissions in anoxic environments. Here, Egas et al. show that these microbes can also oxidize carbon monoxide, prompting re-evaluation of their cla...
www.nature.com
We've updated our recent @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social on 'Hidden but discoverable diversity in the global microbiome', led by @vishnuprasoodanan.bsky.social & @omaistrenko.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
