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....