New preprint! For years, we had worried that Dollo parsimony, which is based on principles developed for morphological characters, was not an appropriate choice for ancestral gene content reconstruction based on sequence homology. Now we can say: it’s not! doi.org/10.1101/2023... #protistsonsky

The BEAP lab would like to welcome two new members! Xènia Maya joins us as a lab technician for the IBE Microbe Hub (joint with the Multicellgenome and @fonamental.bsky.social labs), and Viktoriya Petlovana joins us as a visiting scientist from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.