Anders K. Krabberød
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Anders K. Krabberød
@krabberod.bsky.social
Bioinformatician at the University of Oslo. Evolutionary biology, protists, progrock bassist.
Det er valg! Lurer du på hvordan partiene står i forhold til hverandre? 📊 Her er en hovedkomponentanalyse (PCA) basert på NRKs valgomat.
Fargene viser ideologisk blokktilhørighet, og linjene kobler partiene i et minimum spenntre – korteste vei som forbinder alle uten å lage løkker. #valg2025 #nrk
August 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Another version of our DNA metabarcoding course coming to an end. Thanks to the students and teachers @krabberod.bsky.social @ramalok.bsky.social @kbohmann.bsky.social @daniel-vaulot.bsky.social @micahdunthorn.bsky.social
April 11, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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@krabberod.bsky.social presenting the Ribosomal Operon Database (ROD) at our ongoing DNA metabarcoding course
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
April 10, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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- The web interface now provides access to the ROD database that contains full-length eukaryotic ribosomal operons developed by @krabberod.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I am very happy that ROD (The Ribosomal Operon Database) is now included in the outstanding PR2 web interface, enhancing its accessibility and utility. I hope to make some updates to ROD in the near future. with @drhyfe.bsky.social
- The web interface now provides access to the ROD database that contains full-length eukaryotic ribosomal operons developed by @krabberod.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Announcing the new release of the PR2 database, version 5.1.
pr2-database.org/post/news/20...

Very big thanks to all the contributors: @fonamental.bsky.social @ambonacolta.bsky.social @krabberod.bsky.social and more...

A few highlights:
April 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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New paper by our group, mutation accumulation experiment in heat-stressed Arabidopsis!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
High short tandem repeat mutation recurrence in heat-stressed Arabidopsis thaliana lines
The rise of the annual average temperature presents a strong selection pressure for many species. Sessile organisms, such as the plant Arabidopsis thaliana (A. thaliana), need to adapt to elevated tem...
www.biorxiv.org
January 27, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Check out our latest preprint. Recurrence of STR length mutations in heat stressed Arabidopsis lines (over many generations) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
High short tandem repeat mutation recurrence in heat-stressed Arabidopsis thaliana lines
The rise of the annual average temperature presents a strong selection pressure for many species. Sessile organisms, such as the plant Arabidopsis thaliana ( A. thaliana ), need to adapt to elevated t...
www.biorxiv.org
January 28, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Registration is now open for the ForBio/UiO course “Bioinformatics for environmental DNA sequencing”
@biovitenskap.bsky.social @drhyfe.bsky.social @krabberod.bsky.social @ramalok.bsky.social

www.forbio.uio.no/events/cours...
ForBio and UiO/IBV course: Bioinformatics for environmental DNA sequencing - ForBio
Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.
www.forbio.uio.no
January 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Let's kick of the New Year like an acantharian with a little #protistsonsky fireworks magic. Happy New Year 2025! 🦑
January 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Last Sunday of 2024 - Hoping for better year beginning this week!!!
December 29, 2024 at 8:31 PM
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"Ants solving a geometric problem and it's amazing."

This is a great example of 'emergent phenomenon':
- None of the ants understand the problem they're solving.
- None of them can see the whole shape.
- A series of small decisions or rules add up to something with a new layer of complexity.
Son hormigas resolviendo un problema geométrico y es para flipar en colores.
December 25, 2024 at 5:54 PM
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One of my favorite radiolarians. I call it a "little hat", but I guess it is probably Eucecryphalus sp. Here are two examples from Bermuda (Atlantic) and Puerto Rico (Caribbean). Exquisite little #protistsonsky. I love seeing these forms in different regions of the Oceans. #protistaday #marinelife
December 22, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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International Society of Protistologists is funding two symposia at the 16th International Congress of Protistology in Seoul, South Korea. Proposals are due 30 January 2025
#protist #protistsonsky
protistologists.org/programs/fun...
Funding - International Society of Protistologists
Student support, seed money, and more. Got a tip for a program that funds protist research? Contact the Vice President. Society funding: The Holz-Conner Travel Fund provides funding for travel […]
protistologists.org
December 20, 2024 at 8:37 AM
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The rhizarian testate amoeba Euglypha rotunda eats its co-cultured bacteria, but it will also chow down on GFP E. coli. One day I'll use these vids to measure digestion rates. @thealgaeman.bsky.social another answer to what they eat! #protistaday #protistsonsky
December 20, 2024 at 11:39 PM
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Sometimes you need to take your little shelled amoebas out for a walk. Rhizarian testate amoeba euglypha rotunda #protistsonsky #protistaday
December 19, 2024 at 12:46 PM
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New preprint led by Ruben Gonzalez-Miguens for a new coi database that should be useful to annotate metabarcoding datasets with protists.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
December 10, 2024 at 4:14 PM
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Happy to be part of this effort led by Rubén González-Miguéns: A Novel Taxonomic Database for eukaryotic Mitochondrial Cytochrome Oxidase subunit I Gene (eKOI) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.05.626972v1 eKOI will be integrated into @pr2-database.bsky.social 🙌 #protistsonsky
A Novel Taxonomic Database for eukaryotic Mitochondrial Cytochrome Oxidase subunit I Gene (eKOI): Enhancing taxonomic resolution at community-level in metabarcoding analyses
Metabarcoding has emerged as a robust method for understanding biodiversity patterns by retrieving environmental DNA (eDNA) directly from ecosystems. Its low cost and accessibility have extended its…
www.biorxiv.org
December 12, 2024 at 8:00 AM
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🧬🦠 Exciting new resource for #protists lovers! The eKOI database to expand the power of COI metabarcoding with a focus on #protistsonsky & integrated in @pr2-database.bsky.social Lead by Rubén with @beaplab.bsky.social @fonamental.bsky.social @daniel-vaulot.bsky.social
Link: t.co/3lqzRaFw9V
December 17, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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Palpitomonas: the movie. I like this blurry little video because it shows the cryptistid Palpitomonas with its two absurdly long flagella beating with two different patterns. I imagine it as a pianist playing different parts with each hand. #protistaday #protistsonsky
December 18, 2024 at 12:59 PM
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The rhizarian testate amoeba that I shared yesterday makes its shell out of intricate, self-constructed glass scales. Other testate amoebozoans in the same environment make their shells out of debris (left) or food (right). These are interesting examples of convergence! #protistsonsky #protistaday
December 16, 2024 at 2:43 PM
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Today's #protistaday is a scan through a multinucleated Acantharian cell from here in the Gulf of Maine. All of the larger Acantharians I've looked at have multiple nuclei like this... need to take a look at/stain the teeny "baby" ones to see how these structures develop! #marinelife #protistsonsky
December 17, 2024 at 2:49 PM
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Not a fish or a dragon scale, but a single cell of a #protistsonsky. This rhizarian testate amoeba creates perfect tiny glass scales to build it's shell. From a peat bog. #protistaday.
December 15, 2024 at 1:55 PM
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This #amoeba eats prey like #owls do www.sciencenews.org/article/amoe...

The vampyrellid amoeba #Strigomyxa ruptor gen. et sp. nov. and its remarkable strategy to acquire algal cell contents onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#Protists #Algae #Amoebae #ProtistsOnSky #Microbes
December 14, 2024 at 10:33 AM
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Wild things out there! A likely ciliate cyst from the Arctic
#protistsonsky
December 13, 2024 at 9:35 AM