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Aleksandra (Sasha) Bliznina

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Postdoctoral Fellow at WSI, Jaron Group and Tree of Life; biodiversity and evolution of germ-line restricted chromosomes in flies

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Aleksandra (Sasha) Bliznina @sashabliznina.bsky.social · Jun 6

What a great time we had at the kmer workshop this week!

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Amjad Khalaf 🇵🇸 @amjadkhalaf.bsky.social · May 16

New preprint! We generate 40 new high-quality microsporidian genomes from infected arthropod hosts that were sequenced to create reference genomes by the Darwin Tree of Life project. 8 of our genomes are chromosome-level, and we’re able to generate Hi-C data for 7! 🧬
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Forty New Genomes Shed Light on Sexual Reproduction and the Origin of Tetraploidy in Microsporidia

Microsporidia are single-celled, obligately intracellular parasites with growing public health, agricultural, and economic importance. Despite this, Microsporidia remain relatively enigmatic, with man...

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Tom Mathers @tom-mathers.bsky.social · May 16

Struggling to find the tiny microchromosomes in draft bird genome assemblies?

Our new #preprint introducing MicroFinder can help: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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KamilSJaron.bsky.social @kamilsjaron.bsky.social · Mar 6

5 days left to register for the #k-mer workshop! 🧬 I would strongly recommend for anyone doing large scale biodiversity genomics. tinyurl.com/register-for...

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Andy Murray @mesofauna.bsky.social · Feb 9

An old photo of a larval Phronia species of fungus gnat. I love it- it looks so like a koala, cute fly larvae are the way forwards… #cute #diptera #mycetophilidae

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