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Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social · Sep 8

Huang, @tweethinking.bsky.social, Sepang et al. use phylogenetic analyses to reveal that the Njordarchaeales and Panguiarchaeales constitute the new class Njordarchaeia within Asgard archaea.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf201

#evobio #molbio #archaea

Phylogenomic Analyses Reveal that Panguiarchaeum Is a Clade of Genome-Reduced Asgard Archaea Within the Njordarchaeia

Abstract. The Asgard archaea are a diverse archaeal phylum important for our understanding of cellular evolution because they include the lineage that gave

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Eelco Tromer @eelcotromer.bsky.social · Jun 23

Happy to see our work published and glad to have contributed together with @maxraas.bsky.social ! Looking forward to all the projects that will come out of this work!

Laura Eme @lauraeme.bsky.social · Jun 22

Excited to share our new paper in @cellreports.bsky.social that reshapes our understanding of chromosome organization's deep evolutionary roots! Our work dives into the origins of the machinery that structures our very genomes.

🔗: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

#Genomics #Evolution #CellBiology #LECA

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Saioa Manzano-Morales @microbiobits.bsky.social · Jun 16

(1/14) ¿Has probado alguna vez a trazar tu árbol genealógico? Es un ejercicio interesante para entender tus raíces, a pesar de que se complica cuantas más generaciones atrás intentas llegar…

Imagínate un árbol así, pero a escala de toda la vida en la Tierra. #HiloDivulgación

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Daniel Tamarit @danieltamarit.bsky.social · May 14

New vacancy in my team!

PhD student position on microbial genome evolution, focusing on the evolutionary principles underlying bacterial genome architecture.

Please repost and share with talented MSc students in #evobio, bioinformatics or related :)

www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

#MEvoSky #MicroSky

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Sam von der Dunk @derdunk.bsky.social · Mar 17

#ESEB2025 Exciting symposium alert: (S50) Unravelling the origin of eukaryotes. 🦑🌴 With speakers Purificación López-García and Mark Field. We are looking forward to your abstract submissions! eseb2025.com/list-of-symp... @julianvosseberg.bsky.social

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Dacks Lab (Evolutionary Cell Biology) @dackslabecb.bsky.social · Mar 16

We got to tackle three major questions in biology. So if you are interested in...
A) The nature of LECA
B) The relevance of patchy proteins for cellular models
C) The trafficking machinery present in diplonemids
have we got a paper for you!
authors.elsevier.com/a/1km493QW8S...

#protistsonsky

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Tom Williams @tweethinking.bsky.social · Mar 6

John Archibald also wrote an accessible summary of the work here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mosaic evolution of eukaryotic carbon metabolism - Nature Ecology & Evolution

A comparative genomic investigation of metabolism across the tree of life supports the hypothesis that syntrophy — metabolic exchange between symbiotic partners — had a key role in the evolution of eu...

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Carlos Santana Molina @santanamolina.bsky.social · Mar 3

Asgardarchaea & Alphaproteobacteria: key players for the assembly eukaryotic central carbon metabolism! Our new study reveals their gene contributions to glycolysis & TCA cycle, supporting synthrophic scenarios of eukaryogenesis.
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Chimeric origins and dynamic evolution of central carbon metabolism in eukaryotes

Nature Ecology & Evolution - Analysis of the eukaryotic gene repertoires mediating central carbon metabolism identifies ancestral contributions from Alphaproteobacteria, Asgardarchaeota and...

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