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Paco Barona Gomez @evodivmet.bsky.social · 15d

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Paco Barona Gomez @evodivmet.bsky.social · 27d

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 27d

The cycad coralloid root: is there evidence for plant-microbe coevolution?

#CurrOpinMicro by Kimber Zonneveld, Edder Bustos-Diaz, @evodivmet.bsky.social, Angelica Cibrian-Jaramillo

@naturalis.bsky.social & #LeidenBiology @leidenscience.bsky.social cooperation

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The cycad coralloid root: is there evidence for plant-microbe coevolution?

Cycads are survivors, ancient plants originating in the Carboniferous. We hypothesize that cycad resilience and recent diversification could be partia…

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · Sep 8

We are excited for the Microbial Genomics of Eukaryotes meeting this week! We invite everyone to submit their work to the Microbial Genomics of Eukaryotes collection. Find the full scope here: microb.io/MGE-Collection

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Paco Barona Gomez @evodivmet.bsky.social · Jul 31

And pay back the Rapa people

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Paco Barona Gomez @evodivmet.bsky.social · Jul 31

Ancient hybridization underlies tuberization and radiation of the potato lineage: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Ancient hybridization underlies tuberization and radiation of the potato lineage

Genomic and functional analyses reveal that the potato lineage originated from a homoploid interspecific hybridization event between the Tomato and Etuberosum lineages 8–9 million years ago. The alter...

www.cell.com

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Paco Barona Gomez @evodivmet.bsky.social · Jul 16

Thanks! PCC 7120 is Anabaena, confused for years with Nostoc. We have worked mainly in symbiotic Nostoc close to PCC 73102, i.e., N. punctiforme. We will revisit your nice work and get back to you :)

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Paco Barona Gomez @evodivmet.bsky.social · Jul 14

Very cool work, but a shame Nostoc was not included as that has been shown to be the epicenter of a cyano-driven symbiotic microbiome.... But nice approach to be applied therein.

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Russell Cox Chem @russellcoxchem.bsky.social · Jul 13

You don‘t have to review or read all of them… but where-ever possible you should select a society publisher!

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published

Widespread mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention

www.theguardian.com

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Paco Barona Gomez @evodivmet.bsky.social · Jul 12

This is a nice proposal. I use for teaching Microbial Biodiversity

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Lennart Schada von Borzyskowski @lennartschada.bsky.social · Jul 8

Please share: I am hiring a postdoc that will work on enzyme characterization and engineering in the frame of the EU consortium project C5.

Read all details here and apply until August 10: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

Postdoctoral researcher on enzyme characterization and enzyme engineering

The Faculty of Science / the Institute for Biology is looking for a: Postdoctoral researcher on enzyme characterization and enzyme engineering Vacancy number: 15834 Project description We are hiring...

www.universiteitleiden.nl

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Paco Barona Gomez @evodivmet.bsky.social · Jul 8

Chemistry :)

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Paco Barona Gomez @evodivmet.bsky.social · Jul 8

We have been using this tool for a bit, with great results. Very cool approach to make something complicated very simple

José D. D.Cediel-Becerra @jcedielbecerra.bsky.social · Jul 8

GATOR-GC is out at @narjournal.bsky.social!! Check out our new targeted genome mining tool featuring a novel similarity metric to efficiently compare and deduplicate gene clusters.

We uncover biosynthetic diversity missed by other genome mining tools

academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Targeted genome mining with GATOR-GC maps the evolutionary landscape of biosynthetic diversity

Abstract. Gene clusters, groups of physically adjacent genes that work collectively, are pivotal to bacterial fitness and valuable in biotechnology and med

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Paco Barona Gomez @evodivmet.bsky.social · Jul 8

Cool Nadine!

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Paco Barona Gomez @evodivmet.bsky.social · Jul 3

I saw you passing by!

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Jun 28

Hungary banned Pride marches. This is the response ✊🏳️‍🌈

Phillip Ayoub @payoub.bsky.social · Jun 28

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

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Paco Barona Gomez @evodivmet.bsky.social · Jun 20

Enjoy! Y saludos a todos por allá.

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Paco Barona Gomez @evodivmet.bsky.social · Jun 16

Nice to be with some members of my group at ISBA meeting

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Lorena Fernández @lore-fermar.bsky.social · Jun 16

Visit poster 63 to find out what Golsa has been doing with DESI-MS and Streptomyces metabolite detection! #isba2025 @evodivmet.bsky.social

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Paco Barona Gomez @evodivmet.bsky.social · May 18

Never was to be for me, but I know how much you care about this ground.... Hope you enjoyed the match matey.

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Paco Barona Gomez @evodivmet.bsky.social · May 14

Glad you found a great collaboration!!

Paco Barona Gomez @evodivmet.bsky.social · May 14

Congrats! Glad your visit to Leiden paid back. Will read it ;)

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American Society of Plant Biologists @aspbofficial.bsky.social · May 8

Plant Science Research Weekly -- Review: Cycad chemicals and coevolution (New Phytologist) @shaylasalzman.bsky.social @jcarlosvillarreal.bsky.social @lycaeidesmelissa.bsky.social @evodivmet.bsky.social (Summary by Xavier Ozowara [email protected]) buff.ly/utBCK2L

#PlantaePSRW

Review: Cycads, chemicals, and coevolution | Plantae

Cycads are an ancient lineage of gymnosperms with fascinating ecological interactions. In a recent review, Salzman et al. examine the various adaptations of cycads, from attracting pollinators to…

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Paco Barona Gomez @evodivmet.bsky.social · Apr 22

Claro! DM aqui? Email? (ya encontramos los videos, aqui un screenshot ejemplo)

Paco Barona Gomez @evodivmet.bsky.social · Apr 21

Si alguien tiene contacto con Mauricio Hoyos y su equipo, favor de compartir.

Paco Barona Gomez @evodivmet.bsky.social · Apr 21

doi.org/10.1101/2025... here it goes, if the authors read this happy to share videos of that ocassions (probably good to know about same behaviour in shark whales?)

Scraping the Surface: First Records of Cleaning Associations Between Sharks and Oceanic Manta Rays

Interspecific scraping behaviors among large marine vertebrates may serve as an important mechanism for ectoparasite removal. Here, we present the first documented observations of shark–manta scraping...

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SharkScience @sharkscience.bsky.social · Apr 19

Chafing Behavior by Carcharhinid Sharks on Oceanic Manta Rays in North America’s Largest MPA (preprint) 🦑🌎🐟🦈 scholar.google.com/scholar_url?...

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