Fabien Burki
@fburki.bsky.social
Exploring the great microbial eukaryote diversity and evolution, one protist at a time. I’m fascinated by this question: how have #plastids evolved? #ProtistsOnSky | Associate Prof at Uppsala University. My lab: https://www.burki-lab.net/
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Plants animals and fungi are just the weird really big protists.
February 11, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Plants animals and fungi are just the weird really big protists.
New sighting of leptophytes, using similar data (ptMAGs). This corroborates our earlier finding from a different metagenomic dataset
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Global metagenomics reveals plastid diversity and unexplored algal lineages - Nature Communications
Plastids, photosynthetic organelles in plants and algae, originated from cyanobacterial endosymbiosis. Here, Shrestha et al. use metagenomics to expand plastid diversity and provide evidence for two i...
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:43 AM
New sighting of leptophytes, using similar data (ptMAGs). This corroborates our earlier finding from a different metagenomic dataset
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Yes it’s not always grey
February 1, 2026 at 10:56 AM
Yes it’s not always grey
Reposted by Fabien Burki
And for fun here's an amoebozoan named Centropyxis wearing diatom frustules
January 20, 2026 at 10:32 PM
And for fun here's an amoebozoan named Centropyxis wearing diatom frustules