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Yann Dussert

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Population & comparative genomics, evolutionary biology & adaptation / Researcher at CEA Genoscope / ORCID: 0000-0003-1900-7715 Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1bs5bs4AAAAJ&hl=fr

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Yann Dussert @yanndussert.bsky.social · Feb 19

Our preprint about triploidy in enset, a staple crop feeding > 20 million people in Ethiopia, is now available!
Collaboration: Addis Ababa Univ, @rbgkew.bsky.social, @qmul.ac.uk, Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute and UK Natural Resources Institute
doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.14.638218
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Recurrent evolution of cryptic triploids in cultivated enset increases yield

Enset is a staple crop for over 20 million people in southwestern Ethiopia. We generated a new chromosome-level genome assembly, and sequenced 65 wild and 658 cultivated individuals. We unexpectedly f...

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Thibault (Tibo) Leroy @tiboleroyinen.bsky.social · 4h

Delighted to see our work on the evolution of roses during the 19th century featured on this month’s Genetics cover! 😍

Feel free to let your curiosity guide you to our recent article!
academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 6h

The October #GENETICS cover shows phenotypic variation in rose flowers across different periods of 19th-century breeding history, illustrated with some of the rose varieties preserved in the ancient rose garden Roseraie Loubert.🌹 Read the full issue: buff.ly/BYzknt9

📸: @tiboleroyinen.bsky.social

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Oliver Schwengers @oschwengers.bsky.social · 2d

Dear community, Bakta needs your help!

To further improve the functional annotation of "hypothetical" CDS, me and @gbouras13.bsky.social, we are looking for the worst Bakta-annotated bacterial genomes ;-)

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Yann Dussert @yanndussert.bsky.social · 5d

And from the article, a nice picture (edited by Mélanie Van Weddingen) of all species with an ATLASea genome assembly:

Picture of the first 100 species with genomes assembled by the ATLASea program © Montage : Mélanie Van Weddingen

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Yann Dussert @yanndussert.bsky.social · 5d

The ATLASea program is releasing its 100th genome assembly - cephalopods fans rejoice, it is for a Nautilus species.

Article in French:
www.mnhn.fr/fr/actualite...

Une 100e espèce séquencée dans le programme DIVE-Sea !

Le projet DIVE-Sea, qui a débuté en mars 2023, représente le premier volet du programme ATLASea qui vise à constituer un atlas des génomes d’espèces marines (algues, coraux, poissons, coquillages…) de...

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Ryan Wick @rrwick.bsky.social · 15d

New blog post!

metaMDBG (@gaetanbenoit.bsky.social) and Myloasm (@jimshaw.bsky.social) have had recent releases, so I updated the benchmarks from the Autocycler paper:
rrwick.github.io/2025/09/23/a...

Both tools improved considerably! Time to update your conda environments 😄

Benchmark update: metaMDBG and Myloasm

a blog for miscellaneous bioinformatics stuff

rrwick.github.io

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Chantal Vogels @chantalvogels.bsky.social · 19d

📢New preprint on the impact of dengue virus genetic diversity on inhibition by Wolbachia 🦟🦠🧬

Project led by Afeez Sodeinde, @emiliefinch.bsky.social, and @keli5734.bsky.social! ✨

Key findings in thread below 👇

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Heterogeneity in inhibition of genetically diverse dengue virus strains by Wolbachia

The release of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes transinfected with the virus-inhibiting Wolbachia bacterium has the potential to reduce the burden caused by dengue virus (DENV). However, the robustness of thi...

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ATLASea @atlasea.bsky.social · 21d

ATLASea #recrute:

Ingénieur développeur - DevOps (H/F) à RENNES
IT en contrat CDD de 13 mois
Date d'embauche prévue : 1 novembre 2025

Plus d'informations:
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

#hiring #job

Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Ingénieur développeur - DevOps (H/F)

emploi.cnrs.fr

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Yann Dussert @yanndussert.bsky.social · 23d

Yes dear submission system, I'm sure that me typing the department and the zip code of all my co-authors is really important and useful for you.

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James Bonfield @jbonfield.bsky.social · 23d

Heads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change.

Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned

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Sarah Lemer @sarah-thesea.bsky.social · Aug 25

Check our latest paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social about the unique sex determination system in Nautilus ➡️ XX/XY chromosomes unlike other cephalopods (ZZ/Z0).
with @reef-combo.bsky.social and @anariesgo.bsky.social et al., and led by Hector Torrado.
Get it: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lbs~_LsQS...

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Trends in Genetics @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social · 27d

"Striking diversity of male-killing symbionts and their mechanisms"
by Hiroshi Arai (@haraipapilio.bsky.social), Daisuke Kageyama (@daisukekageyama.bsky.social) & co

"Why [and how] do maternally inherited endosymbionts kill male hosts?"

Find out here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Figure 1. Diversity of male-killing (MK) endosymbionts across arthropods.

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Yann Dussert @yanndussert.bsky.social · 26d

Not sur I agree, since I always have to check twice that I correctly wrote it ...

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John Burns @burnsajohn.bsky.social · 26d

Saw this angry monster in my marine plankton tow in Maine, USA... anyone recognize it (@elizabethbeston.bsky.social)? It's a few mm across, took up the whole field of view at 5x.

A "large" planktonic animal. Probably a juvenile of something!

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Yann Dussert @yanndussert.bsky.social · 26d

Yes, that and large endovirus sequences that could not be anchored in larger scaffolds. I talked about it with GenBank staff during submission and I thought it wouldn't be tagged "Contaminated", but I guess it is an automatic process.

Yann Dussert @yanndussert.bsky.social · 26d

Thanks a lot! As you know, not the easiest critter to sequence and assemble. By the way, in case you want to take a look at the genome, this is from individuals with the f-element (large bacterial insertion), so it is not a "typical" genome.

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Yann Dussert @yanndussert.bsky.social · 26d

Our annotated chromosome(ish)-scale assembly of the genome of the terrestrial isopod Armadillidium vulgare, the common pillbug, is available on NCBI: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/gen...

Work carried out at Ecologie et Biologie des Interactions (EBI) lab in Poitiers.

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Jim Shaw @jimshaw.bsky.social · Sep 7

Preprint out for myloasm, our new nanopore / HiFi metagenome assembler!

Nanopore's getting accurate, but

1. Can this lead to better metagenome assemblies?
2. How, algorithmically, to leverage them?

with co-author Max Marin @mgmarin.bsky.social, supervised by Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social

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bioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · Sep 7

High-resolution metagenome assembly for modern long reads with myloasm https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.05.674543v1

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Yann Dussert @yanndussert.bsky.social · Sep 6

Me every day in front of the mirror:

Yann Dussert @yanndussert.bsky.social · Aug 27

Assembled a couple of genomes with a lot of low complexity regions (notably microsats) which caused HiFi to not work well, ONT did the trick - we got a chromosome-scale assembly with R10 and Hi-C.

Yann Dussert @yanndussert.bsky.social · Aug 27

Fortunately, if all else fails, I still have the Journal of Carcinogenesis.

Yann Dussert @yanndussert.bsky.social · Aug 27

Fourth time's the charm, right?

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sdvupsaclay.bsky.social @sdvupsaclay.bsky.social · Aug 7

France 2030 - PEPR ATLASea : "Un atlas des génomes marins" - appel à projets 2025

Le PEPR ATLASea, piloté par le CNRS et le CEA, a pour objectif de séquencer et analyser des milliers de génomes de référence issus de la biodiversité marine. Dans le contexte du Earth Biogenome Project et du European Reference Genome Atlas, ATLASea s’inscrit dans une dynamique internationale dont le but est de mieux comprendre le vivant à travers l’analyse de génomes représentatifs de sa diversité et issus de centaines de millions d’années d’évolution. A l’heure où la biodiversité est soumise à une pression anthropique accrue, il est urgent de réaliser cet inventaire, dont l’une des applications est d’accroître notre capacité à étudier, surveiller et préserver les écosystèmes. La biodiversité marine est un enjeu particulièrement important car elle est mal connue mais cependant cruciale pour les équilibres naturels, tant physiques (production d’oxygène, séquestration du carbone) que biologiques. La France dispose de la deuxième zone économique exclusive marine au monde, et est dotée d’atouts importants pour l’étude de sa biodiversité marine. Ainsi, le PEPR ATLASea fédère des acteurs clés comme le CNRS, le CEA, le Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (MNHN), l’Ifremer, Sorbonne Université, l’Université Aix-Marseille, Paris Sciences Lettres, et plusieurs stations marines autour de trois projets ciblés : DIVE-Sea pour l’échantillonnage, SEQ-Sea pour le séquençage, et BYTE-Sea pour l’infrastructure informatique. En savoir plus Trame lettre d’intention AAP ATLASea Texte de l’Appel à projets Règlement financier des PEPR Limite de dépôt des lettres d’intention : 30 septembre 2025 à 11:00 CEST Limite de dépôt des projets : 06 janvier 2026 à 11:00 CET

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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · Jul 30

Hi #Botany2025 - In my quest to never do flow cytometry again, I am collecting sequence data (radseq, target enrichment, WGS, ect.) with confirmed ploidal level. If you have samples, reach out!

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ATLASea @atlasea.bsky.social · Jul 18

🚨 Lancement du 1er AAP: Voies de synthèse de molécules d’intérêt issues des génomes marins

Financement: 3,6 M€
Durée: <4 ans
2 axes: Annotation fonctionnelle de gènes & Validation expérimentale des voies de synthèse

Lettre d’intention à déposer avant 30/09/2025

📎 Détails : anr.fr/PEPR-ATLASea...

Consulter

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Carmen Lafuente Sanz @lafucarmen.bsky.social · Jul 13

Here’s a quick 1-minute video where I share what my PhD is about as part of the @longtrec.bsky.social Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network — feel free to take a look if you’re curious!

LongTREC @longtrec.bsky.social · Jul 13

🌊 Exploring the Ocean’s Genetic Secrets! Guided by @jm-aury.bsky.social and France Denoeud, @lafucarmen.bsky.social Doctoral Candidate at Genoscope - Centre National de Séquençage, shares how she's using long-reads on marine samples from the Tara Oceans expedition to explore genetic novelty.

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