Giant multicellular magnetotactic prokaryotes in marine sediments academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #jcampubs

In this review we map the journey to animal multicellularity and define three extinct ancestral stages: 🔹 LUAA: Last Unicellular Animal Ancestor. 🔹 FACA: First Animal Common Ancestor. 🔹 LACA: Last Animal Common Ancestor. Check it out: bit.ly/4azuLVY @embojournal.org

Recently, a Hypothesis was posed in @jcellsci.bsky.social in which the root of eukaryotes was placed between kinetoplastids and all other eukaryotes. From this, it was implied that LECA did not have a kinetochore. We argue this is highly unlikely. A 🧵(1/12) Read our reply here: tinyurl.com/n87myhpr

The second isolate from the bacterial phylum Caldisericota (formerly candidate phylum OP5, first detected in Yellowstone's Obsidian Pool) has been found in a thermal spring on Sakhalin Island: Caldisericum insulae sp. nov. 🦠🌋 #microbiology #taxonomy #bacteria #MicroSky doi.org/10.1007/s007...

A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself and its complementary strand #evolution #RNA www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Exploring the microbial "dark matter" just got easier🦠🔬 Most #protists are uncultivated and tiny making electron microscopy a nightmare. A new, low-cost protocol allows single-cell tracking and field prep. #microbiology #eukaryotes #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky doi.org/10.1111/jeu....

The ISME20 abstract submission deadline has been extended to 22 February. Microbial ecologists worldwide are invited to submit abstracts for oral, short talk, or poster presentations and contribute to the ISME20 programme. isme-microbes.org/isme20-abstr... #ISME20 #MicrobialEcology

Our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com is now online-early! We describe independent evolution of bacterial genomes of only ~50–52 kb — the smallest known outside cellular organelles — revealing striking convergence toward minimal gene sets. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s414...

R Graphics Cookbook, 2nd edition by Winston Chang #RStats https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/data%20visualization.html#r-graphics-cookbook-2nd-edition

Reassessing viral origins and evolutionary placement in the tree of life #OriginofLife #TreeofLife #Evolution #virus #phage #MicroSky doi.org/10.1007/s104...

SeqCode recognizes strains and their value for experimental work. However, type material in #SeqCode consists of genome sequence that unambiguously defines a species. The request suggests using strains as paratypes of genomic type material. doi.org/10.1093/isme...

Thank you @mollyherring.bsky.social for the stunning showcase 😍 Like what you see? Come ExM with us! Let’s flood the internet with microbial marvels 🦠 #ProtistsOnSky #MicroEvoSky 🧪🔬🌍 @dudinlab.bsky.social @centriolelab.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social @embl.org @erc.europa.eu @embo.org

We finally have the pre-industrial baseline for #Hydrogen in the atmopshere! Because H2 is so small, it usually leaks right through ice. But new polar core measurements have successfully reconstructed a millennium of H2 data for the first time. #ClimateChange #EnergyTransition

FRED: a universal tool to generate FAIR metadata for omics experiments www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #jcampubs

Accurate plasmid reconstruction from metagenomics data using assembly–alignment graphs and contrastive learning www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Super excited to share my latest publication with Justin Malogan and @suez.bsky.social , my love letter to viromics! 🦠 Here, we discuss computational and wet lab methods to study the gut virome and how they can be used together But why is this synergy so important? journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

BactoTraits: a trait database for exploring functional diversity of bacterial communities www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Passioned by #bioenergetics? Do not miss our new article on the evolutionary history of oxidoreductases with G. Borrel and @sgribaldo.bsky.social @archaeal.bsky.social @valdeanda.bsky.social @pasteur.fr @cnrs.fr @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @natecoevo.nature.com (www.nature.com/articles/s41...).

New research published! I wanted to write about this, because I think the DE-Score *might* be the thing I'm proudest of so far! All my career I have dreamt of finding something so clean. The DE-Score is a way to tell when amino acid data stops being informative. 1/7 academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

Workflow graphical editor and translator to Nextflow f1000research.com/articles/15-...

Discovery and cultivation of prokaryotic taxa in the age of metagenomics and artificial intelligence academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #jcampubs

Circularization of 23S rRNA but not 16S rRNA within archaeal ribosomes #microbiology #archaea #MicroSky link.springer.com/article/10.1...

slow5tools v1.4.0 released github.com/hasindu2008/... Many bit profiles for ex-zd lossy compression added by @hiruna72, who reduced 275TB of historical @nanopore rawdata at @GenTechGp to 172TB. guide to lossy archive: hasindu2008.github.io/slow5tools/a... paper: doi.org/10.1101/gr.2...

📢 Rfam 15.1 is here! ✨ 50 new RNA families including riboswitch candidates, plastid ncRNAs, snoRNAs, plant xrRNAs and more. 🧬 10 families updated with 3D structures 🖥️ Brand new interactive alignment viewer Take a look xfam.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/r... #RNA #Bioinformatics #RNAbiology

A phylogeny of 4'854 #insects --- with structural #genomics shedding light on protein functions & remote homologs www.nature.com/articles/s41... #biodiversity

Photoelectrotrophy: a novel mode of microbial metabolism and its biogeochemical effects. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Trait-based meta-analysis of microbial guilds in the iron redox cycle journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

#NatMicroPicks Identification of a 5500-year-old Treponema genome from human remains recovered in Colombia uncovers a new subspecies of Treponema pallidum, the cause of syphilis, and provides insights into its evolutionary history. @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

With the release of anvi'o v9, the 300k+ contigs databases available for download on the GlobDB website are now compatible with both the development version and the latest stable release (v9) of anvi'o. More info: globdb.org/news Thanks #anvio team! 🖥️🧬🦠

In this review in Fungal Ecology, Håvard Kauserud (@drhyfe.bsky.social) argues that while the ITS region is by far the best DNA (meta)barcoding marker for fungi, we should not use it naively or simplistically doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...

Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below! Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage

We just released #anvio v9, "eunice" 🎉 This version represents over 2,000 changes in the codebase since v8, increasing the total number of programs in the anvi'o ecosystem to 176. Read the release notes: github.com/merenlab/anv... Visit our up-to-date web page: anvio.org

Molecular evolution of the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway and the reductive glycine pathway in Desulfobacterota #microbiology #bacteria #CO2 #MicroSky doi.org/10.3389/fmic...

Extreme thermal environments: reservoirs of industrially important thermozymes #microbiology #biotechnology #thermophiles #MicroSky doi.org/10.3389/fmic...

#microsky #synbiosky From Tom Ellis lab featuring @northumbriauni.bsky.social ‘s Meng Zhang (co-corresponding) & Katie Gilmour (co-first) 👏❤️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A new community-driven lab handbook for reducing conflict and creating more positive and equitable work environments gets strong support from a survey of 200 researchers. buff.ly/K7CGFLV

Starvation enhances bacterial survival through drying and rewetting at the single cell level www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #jcampubs

What are the main sources of gene expression noise in bacteria, and why do slower growing bacteria exhibit more expression noise? TLDR: we found growth-rate fluctuations are a key driver of gene expression noise that increase as average growth rate decreases. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/n

Metabolic blueprints of monocultures enable prediction and design of synthetic microbial consortia www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #jcampubs

Wow! Amazing and awesome work. What a great dissection of multicellularity evolution in this (i hope) emerging models for in these MCF/black yeasts. Agree so interesting to see the biotic interaction-associated emergence of this multicellular form.

PanForest: predicting genes in genomes using random forests academic.oup.com/bioinformati... #jcampubs

Request for public discussion and ballot to add rules on paratypes to the SeqCode and amend recommendations on name formation academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... #jcampubs

🚨vConTACT3 now in Nature Biotechnology: - >95% agreement with ICTV for known viruses - Classifies both prokaryotic and eukaryotic viruses - Extends beyond genus → subfamily, family & order - Systematically assigns taxonomy to tens of thousands of previously unclassified viruses

A dataset of 40 million protein families and an autoregressive model of protein families. Great to see other protein Atlases popping up after Dayhoff!! @judewells.bsky.social @dmmiller597.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

ISME20 Abstract guidelines are now available — start preparing your abstract to be able to share your latest research with the global community of microbial ecologists at ISME20, held in New Zealand, August 2026. Learn more: isme-microbes.org/isme20-abstr... #ISME20 #MicrobialEcology

Functional insights into the nitrogenase-like enzyme superfamily #nitrogen #nitrogenase www.cell.com/trends/bioch...

Caldiplasma sukawensis gen. nov., sp. nov., and Cuniculiplasma thermophilum sp. nov., mesophilic, acidophilic, cell–wall–less, archaea of the order Thermoplasmatales, isolated from extremely acidic hot spring #microbiology #archaea #taxonomy #ArchaeaSky #MicroSky doi.org/10.1016/j.sy...

Percent-Level Copper Mineralisation Promoted by Copper-Tolerant Iron-Oxidising Bacteria in Circumneutral Mine Drainage #microbiology #bacteria #MicroSky doi.org/10.1111/1462...

A matter of salt: Global assessment of the effect of salt ionic composition as a driver of aquatic bacterial diversity aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A quick microbio present before the holidays 🎁 >150 years after their first description, filamentous "Crenothrix bacteria" are now in stable laboratory culture! In our pre-print, we probe the unique physiology & ecology of the "lacustrine" group of these enigmatic methane-oxidizing microbes... 1/2