Ryo Harada
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Ryo Harada
@ryoharada.bsky.social
Postdoc at Roger’s lab, Dalhousie University
Phylogenomics, Eukaryotic Evolution, Symbiosis
Reposted by Ryo Harada
Pleased to share our new preprint: "Plasmodium ARK1 regulates spindle formation during atypical mitosis and forms a divergent chromosomal passenger complex". Many thanks to our collaborators.
@ritatewari.bsky.social @eelcotromer.bsky.social @davidguttery.bsky.social

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August 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Reposted by Ryo Harada
Our paper describing our new improved GFmix models for phylogenetic inference that capture site-and-branch heterogeneity in amino acid composition.
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Modeling site-and-branch-heterogeneity with GFmix
Phylogenetic trees are often inferred from protein sequences sampled from diverse taxa across the tree of life. The compositions of these amino acid sequences may be heterogeneous across both sites an...
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August 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Reposted by Ryo Harada
Modeling site-and-branch-heterogeneity with GFmix https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.669136v1
August 10, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Reposted by Ryo Harada
Phylogenetic dissection provides insights into the incongruity in the tree of Archaeplastida between the analyses of nucleus- and plastid-encoded proteins. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.06.652364v1
May 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Reposted by Ryo Harada
Eukfinder: a pipeline to retrieve microbial eukaryote genome sequences from metagenomic data | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Eukfinder: a pipeline to retrieve microbial eukaryote genome sequences from metagenomic data | mBio
Advancements in next-generation sequencing have made whole-genome shotgun (WGS) metagenomic sequencing an efficient method for de novo reconstruction of microbial genomes from various environments. Th...
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May 6, 2025 at 10:47 PM
New paper out!
We discovered a tiny archaeon with the smallest known archaeal genome — only 238 kbp!
Candidatus Sukunaarchaeum mirabile has almost no recognizable metabolic pathways and may rely heavily on a host to survive.
It also represents a novel, deep-branching lineage in the archaeal tree.
A cellular entity retaining only its replicative core: Hidden archaeal lineage with an ultra-reduced genome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.02.651781v1
May 3, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Reposted by Ryo Harada
A cellular entity retaining only its replicative core: Hidden archaeal lineage with an ultra-reduced genome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.02.651781v1
May 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM