So nice to see this out in print, and thanks to @microbiologysociety.org for the smooth publish process! Single-cell sequencing reveals unexpected genetic diversity among Bodo spp. flagellates and their bacterial endosymbionts - www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

🆕 Researchers from the Earlham Institute and @biology.ox.ac.uk developing #singlecell pipelines for #protist sequencing have discovered three previously unrecognised lineages of the protist Bodo, each with its own bacterial endosymbiont. @neilhall.bsky.social | @sallywarring.bsky.social 💻🧬🦠

Some creatures we’ve isolated from soil recently. If you recognise any of these let me know! #protistsonsky

🦠 Neither plant, animal, nor fungi: protists are beautiful, bizarre, and behaviourally complex. For @sallywarring.bsky.social and @santa-walker.bsky.social at Earlham Institute, they're creating some fascinating scientific challenges. Learn more ➡️ buff.ly/8lRrX8b

We are looking for a PhD student to work on an exciting plastid endosymbiosis in microbial eukaryotes. This position involves sampling, exciting microscopy such as CARDFISH, ExM and FIBSEM, single-cell transcriptomics and more. #protistsonsky 1/2

#SymbioSky #ProtistsOnSky 𝘉𝘰𝘥𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘴 & Company (Alphaproteobacteria: Holosporales)

A new preprint from us using a single-cell genome pipeline to investigate diversity of uncultured Bodo spp. flagellates. We isolated 7 Bodo spp. cells from a single environmental sample and show that they represent 3 Bodo sp. each with a unique species of bacterial endosymbiont. #protistsonsky