Poop can save species 💩 Scientists used fecal metagenomics to find pathogens in the critically endangered Iberian desman. They found 26 potential threats, some in almost half the individuals tested. Non-invasive way to study wildlife health! doi.org/10.1111/eva.70199

Advancing bioinformatics methods to identify pathogenic bacteria from fecal metagenomic data of the Iberian desman, a critically endangered species. A step forward for wildlife health monitoring. 🧬 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @evolappjournal.bsky.social

The first day of our Workshop on Genome Annotation @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social was great! We had @bombarelya.bsky.social giving a primer on genome assembly to get started. Looking forward to zooming in into annotation itself tomorrow! 🪱🐦🧬🧩🌵☘️🌽

It’s not the head, it’s the butt! Meet a completely unknown organism: a blow fly (Calliphoridae) that evolved social integration in termite nests using a false termite head in the posterior part of the body. @CurrentBiology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Happy that my first publication in 🦋 is about this. Our preprint on the origin of Bilateria is out. A nice story about the position of the Xenoacoelomorpha in the animal tree of life. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...

🧬📢New bioinformatics approach using metagenomic sequences to detect pathogenic bacterial species in Iberian desman feces. A promising tool for wildlife health monitoring & species conservation! We hope you find it interesting! 🤓👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🦦 @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social

Development of metagenomic methods for non-invasive health monitoring of endangered species: Unveiling hidden microbial threats in fecal samples https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.21.633432v1