🌊 New preprint! Maternal-to-zygotic transition across the isogamy–oogamy continuum in brown algae. In animals, maternal provisioning delays ZGA. In brown algae, it appears to support it: fast and continuous in oogamy, biphasic in near-isogamy with a delayed wave. 🔗 doi.org/10.64898/202...

Does trait choice change the outcome of hybrid Species Distribution Models under climate change? We tested this and fond that correlative & hybrid models converged, both pointing to future range contractions. Read at: doi.org/10.1002/ecog... #Marinebiology #climatechange #machinelearning

Genome editing in brown algae! 🧬🪸🌿 Now out in Cell Reports Methods! Excited to share this highly efficient, transgene-free CRISPR–Cas genome editing protocol for brown algae, requiring no cloning and no specialized equipment. doi.org/10.1016/j.cr... #CRISPR #BrownAlgae @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social

New CRISPR tools for brown algae: a transgene-free genome editing methodology, developed in Ectocarpus and validated in kelps such as Undaria pinnatifida, opens new possibilities for functional genomics, aquaculture, and blue biotechnology. Online ahead of print: doi.org/10.1016/j.cr...

New research: With ancient origins & surprising flexibility, #BrownAlgae reveal a compelling story of sex chromosome evolution. This could rewrite how we view sex determination. Learn more: s.gwdg.de/YDoZ3L Congrats to @agalip.bsky.social & Josue Barrera for their work in @natecoevo.nature.com

Genomes of brown algae with different sex determination systems show that U/V sex chromosomes evolved 450–224 million years ago and show remarkable conservation of genes within the sex-determining region, despite independent expansions of the sex locus in each lineage www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share the Phaeoexplorer paper out today in Cell: Evolutionary genomics of the emergence of brown algae as key components of coastal ecosystems! 🌊 Including the genome of Dictyota dichotoma and many more! doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... #Seaweed

🌊✨ Excited to share our new review in Development on the molecular bases of multicellular development in brown algae! 🌿🔬 #BrownAlgae #EvoDevo #Multicellularity #DevelopmentalBiology Link: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Great to see our work on AB-polarity in kelp online and the hard work of the last 3 years by some young scientists valorized! 🌿🔬 Big shoutout to Eloise Dries, Yannick Meyers, Floriele Gonzaga, and Jakob Becker and all involved. It was a pleasure! 🙌 doi.org/10.1111/nph....