Free-to-read link @natgenet.nature.com: rdcu.be/eHzSP News & Views: "The dawn of bryophyte genomics is here" rdcu.be/eHzS2

We’re excited to announce the Call for Symposia, Colloquia, & Workshop Proposals for #Botany2026, Aug. 1–5, 2026 in Tucson, AZ. Help us explore this year’s theme: Biodiversity at the Boundaries. There is a hard deadline of October 16 for Symposia and Colloquia proposals. www.botanyconference.org

SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS #AppsPlantSci invites proposals for “Beyond #phylogenomics: Innovative applications of target capture data,” led by @emcassey.bsky.social, @erikarmoore11.bsky.social, Mafe Torres Jimenez & ‪@yannickwoudstra.bsky.social‬ Deadline 30 Nov 2025 botany.org/home/publica...

An evolving view of character macroevolution doi.org/10.32942/X28...

Ji, Kapli, Flouri & @zihengyang.bsky.social assess the impact of genotyping errors in phylogenomic data on Bayesian inference of species trees, suggesting that it is better to sequence a few samples at high depths over many samples at low depths. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf184 #evobio #molbio

My very first post on here. I am stoked to share lab's latest paper led by @ethantolman.bsky.social. Ethan developed a highly scalable pipeline to differentiate between various gene flow models, including ghost introgression in phylogenomic datasets. Check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

So excited that my Tansley Insight "On the role of mutualisms in plant biogeography: consequences for ecology, evolution, and invasion" is out today!! @newphyt.bsky.social

ASTER: A Package for Large-scale Phylogenomic Reconstructions. #Phylogenomics #SpeciesTreeInference @molbioevol.bsky.social 🧬 🖥️ academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...

Check out our paper to explore how the evolutionary history of SELMA supports or challenges various hypotheses on the origin of red complex plastids. academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Suturing fragmented landscapes: Mosaic hybrid zones in plants may facilitate ecosystem resiliency www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Now online! Ancient hybridization underlies tuberization and radiation of the potato lineage

🎉 Now out “Phylogenomic analyses indicate the archaeal superphylum DPANN originated from free‑living euryarchaeal‑like ancestors” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Short-read metagenomic sequencing cannot recover genomes from many abundant marine prokaryotes due to high strain heterogeneity and platform-inherent GC bias (likely viruses, too), but Nanopore long reads can address this. A results thread on our recent preprint 🧵.

Very excited to share the first paper out of my Postdoc @CMR: GenomeFISH: genome-based fluorescence in situ hybridisation for strain-level visualisation of microbial communities. @sjmcilroy.bsky.social @jamesvolmer.bsky.social @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/isme... 🧵1/7

The rare microbial biosphere harbors many chemosensitive microorganisms undetectable by regular shotgun metagenomics. We can now explore them using our custom target-capture sequencing approach. Impressive work by Claudia Sanchis, part of her PhD thesis! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

BEAST X v10.5.0 finally released – you can't just do beta releases forever. github.com/beast-dev/be... Details and instructions for installing on the BEAST website: beast.community

📢 ESTE VIERNES POR LA TARDE, nuevo Café Sistemático ☕️🌿 con Ana Martínez Becerril (NMNH, Smithsonian Institution): "El género Elaphoglossum (Dryopteridaceae) como modelo en el estudio integral de los helechos tropicales" 🗓️ Viernes, 4 de julio ⌚️ 17:00 (CEST) 🔗 conecta.csic.es/rooms/mar-dl...

Glad to see this paper finally out! An episodic burst of massive genomic rearrangements and the origin of non-marine annelids @natecoevo.nature.com @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @csic.es @erc.europa.eu www.nature.com/articles/s41...

➡️ #ERGASeminar on Monday: Target capture sequencing approaches to the study of plant evolution 🌱 🌱 Don’t miss the talks by Lisa Pokorny & Pol Fernández Mató! @csic.es @ibb-botanic.bsky.social @calyptrochaeta.bsky.social #RJB_CSIC #genomics #plantevolution www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/target-...

📢 ¡Nuevo Café Sistemático ☕️🍀! Este JUEVES POR LA TARDE con Alberto J. Coello @ajcoello.bsky.social (NMNH, Smithsonian Institution). "De la evolución a la biogeografía: patrones de filogenia espacial de las angiospermas ibéricas" 🗓️ Jueves 19 de junio ⌚️ 16:00 (CEST) 🔗 conecta.csic.es/rooms/mar-dl...

Pan-genome and Haplotype Map of Cassava Cultivars and Wild Ancestors Provide Insights into its Adaptive Evolution and Domestication. #CassavaCultivarGenome #ChromosomeLevelAssembly #Pangenome #HaplotypeMaps #Genomics #Bioinformatics @mplantpcom.bsky.social‬ 🧬 🖥️ www.cell.com/molecular-pl...

This tiny device can shrink dangerous blood clots. It’s called the ‘milli-spinner’ and its invention was partly an accident…

The first global approach to the genetic diversity of #cannabis across wild populations and modern cultivars is now out in @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social A step forward in understanding its evolution 🌱 Read more: bit.ly/3HoGpb3 Full article🔗 bit.ly/4jyVmF1

The time has come to value tropical fieldworkers as equal partners. With billions spent on watching forests from space, the skills of foresters and botanists have never been more vital. In our #Nature correspondence we show why - and what needs to change. #GEO-TREES rdcu.be/enT5S

Uncertainty in the timing of diversification of flowering plants rests with equivocal interpretation of their fossil record royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Barremian tricolpate pollen from Portugal—New evidence for the age of eudicot-related angiosperms Julia Gravendyck, François-Nicolas Krencker, James B. Riding, Ulrich Heimhofer www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Este viernes tenemos un nuevo Café Sistemático ☕️🍀 con Mario Mairal @ucm.es: "Expediciones botánicas al último confín biogeográfico: historia natural, evolución e invasiones en las islas subantárticas" 🗓️ Viernes, 30 de mayo ⌚️ 11:00 (CEST) 🔗 conectaha.csic.es/b/mar-dl5-qf...

Disentangling serial #chloroplast captures in #willows New #AJB research by Diksha Gambhir, Brian Sanderson, Minghao Guo, Nan Hu, Ashmita Khanal, Quentin Cronk, Tao Ma, Jianquan Liu, Diana Percy & Matthew Olson doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #Salix #Salicaceae

Thrilled to see the last of my dissertation work out in @pnas.org ! We addressed some long-standing questions in leopard frogs across Mexico and Central America, discovering three undescribed species and taxonomic overinflation in 10 others. 🐸 www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

New Article: "Comparative transcriptomics in ferns reveals key innovations and divergent evolution of the secondary cell walls" rdcu.be/eiWNF Fern transcriptomes reveal repeated whole-genome duplications, unique gene families and distinct lignocellulosic evolution... #PlantScience

The genome of giant waterlilies provides insights into the origin of angiosperms, leaf gigantism, and stamen function innovation #research #PlantCommunications cell.com/plant-commun...

#Phylogenetics & population structure of the western North American endemic Pacific Laurasian clade of #Isoëtes New #AJB research by Forrest Freund, Daniel Gates, Matthew Johnson & @crothfels.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #genetics #biogeography #evolution

Este jueves tendremos una nueva charla del ciclo Cafés Sistemáticos ☕️🌿. Candela Blanco Moreno @candelabm.bsky.social @uam.es nos hablará de plantas fósiles: "Paleobotánica: la historia oculta de las plantas" 🗓️ Jueves, 10 de abril ⏲️ 11:00 (CET) 🔗 conectaha.csic.es/b/mar-dl5-qf... ¡Os esperamos!

¿Quieres aprender a diferenciar los #robles autóctonos? 🌳💚 Hemos creado esta guía que esperamos sea muy útil ✨✨ 🟢Qpy=Quercus pyrenaica 🟢Qpe=Q. petraea 🟢Qro=Q. robur 🟢Qca=Q. canariensis 🟢Qpu=Q. pubescens 🟢Qce=Q. x cerrioides 🟢Qfa=Q. faginea 🟢Qlu=Q. lusitanica

¿Te interesan las áreas megadiversas? En ellas el paisaje puede estar dominado por muy pocas especies (hiperdominancia). Te proponemos un TFM en el RJB @csic.es para explorar este fenómeno en el género de leguminosas 𝘈𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘱𝘶𝘴 DC. (JAEINT25_EX_0917) @sebot.bsky.social @jovenesbotanica.bsky.social

¿Quieres iniciarte en el mundo de la investigación? Buscamos candidatos para JAE ICU 2025 para el proyecto "Filogenómica de peces de la familia Blenniidae: radiaciones y transiciones evolutivas" Solicitud: sede.csic.gob.es/tramites/pro...

Join the workshop "Short and long timescales in speciation genomics: Machine Learning approaches" from June 24-27, 2025 at St Andrews. Registration starts March 17. More info: https://www.eventsforce.net/standrews/264/home #workshop

Happy to share our new preprint: `The rise, decline and fall of clades' with Jérémy Andréoletti, Daniele Silvestro and Hélène Morlon, where we study how the biodiversity of clades rise and fall, and the processes behind these patterns. 1/5 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Registrations are now open for the #Phylogenomics course with this amazing team of instructors Paschalia, Tomas, @sabifo4.bsky.social and @zihengyang.bsky.social www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

1️⃣ 🌍 Fresh out in #Science! The Asian tropics are among the most biodiverse places on Earth, but where does all that diversity come from? 🤔🔍 We used 🌴 phylogenomics and 🦴 new fossils to unravel the roles of different regions in generating and distributing species! 🌱 #Evolution

📢 Ya está abierto el primer plazo de la convocatoria de #becas de introducción a la #investigación para estudiantes universitari@s #JAE Intro ICU 2025 ❗️ 🗓️ Presenta tu solicitud hasta el 16 de abril. ℹ️ Puedes encontrar toda la información en ➡️ sede.csic.gob.es/tramites/pro...

Este jueves vuelven los Cafés Sistemáticos ☕️🍀 con una doble charla sobre la planta de coca de la mano de Óscar Alejandro Pérez Escobar @latinorchidbot.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social y Carmen Posada Monroy desde RJB-CSIC. 🗓️ Jueves, 20 de marzo ⌚️ 11:00 (CET) 🔗 conectaha.csic.es/b/cri-bnh-kz... 👇👇👇

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Using 90-million-year-old pollen fossils and DNA from a vast collection of global herbarium specimens, @benkuhnhaeuser.bsky.social has been able to map the spread of rattan palms across Asia, and understand the drivers that led to their astonishing diversity 🌴🏝️ 👉 www.kew.org/read-and-wat...

Excited to see this out!! In this thought-provoking review led by @davidperis.bsky.social and Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente we further demonstrate that insect #pollination was once widespread among #gymnosperms and existed long before the origin of #angiosperms onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 A robustly rooted tree of eukaryotes sheds light on their deep evolutionary ancestry—suggesting that the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor (LECA) may have had an excavate-like cell architecture. 🧵🔬 (1/) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 Convocatoria de la III edición del Programa de Retorno del Talento Facilitamos el regreso 🛬 de científicos españoles en el exterior Presentación de solicitudes hasta el 📩 1 de septiembre Aquí puedes conocer los requisitos y condiciones 🔬 fundacionareces.es/fundacionare... #ciencia

Are tropical forests in the Americas changing as adaptation to ongoing climate change? Yes, they are! Are these changes enough to track their suitable climate? Not quite! Check out our paper in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... to see more of what our network has been working on!

Pre-registration is now open for our second (free) course on phylogenomic data analysis and visualization using ETE, funded by @cziscience.bsky.social First time to cover new ETE4 features: Interactive viz of huge tree, profiling... In Madrid, April 21-25. Travel fellowships available!

🚨New paper published in @nature.com! Using pan-genetics across the Solanum genus🍅🥔🍆we reveal why gene duplications🧬are major contingencies in crop engineering. My postdoc work in the Lippman lab @CSHL, collab. with @katiejenike.bsky.social @mikeschatz.bsky.social chatz.bsky.social and many others!