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Paul Houle<p>🦠 Microbiologists discover new species of methane-producing archaea in the human gut</p><p><a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-04-microbiologists-species-methane-archaea-human.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-04-microbio</span><span class="invisible">logists-species-methane-archaea-human.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/microbiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microbiology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/microbiome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microbiome</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/archaea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaea</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bacteria</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/methane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>methane</span></a></p>
naturepoker<p>Question for <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/archaea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaea</span></a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/microbiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microbiology</span></a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/bioinformatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bioinformatics</span></a> folks: I'm looking at a specific contig in an Archaeal genome with repeat elements that remain difficult to resolve even with 100~1000x coverage and minimum 10k read length. </p><p>Anyone else dealt with something similar? What could I even be looking at?</p>
El Pregoner del Metall<p>ARCHAEA (Estats Units) presenta nou single: "Future Swayers" <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Archaea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Archaea</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sludge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sludge</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Stoner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stoner</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DoomMetal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DoomMetal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Abril2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Abril2025</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EstatsUnits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EstatsUnits</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NouSingle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NouSingle</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Metall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Metall</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Metal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Metal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/M%C3%BAsicaMetal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MúsicaMetal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MetalMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MetalMusic</span></a></p>
ISEP<p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/ISEPpapers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ISEPpapers</span></a> 26: October 2024 to March 2025 <a href="https://www.isep-protists.com/post/iseppapers-26" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">isep-protists.com/post/iseppap</span><span class="invisible">ers-26</span></a></p><p>Your twenty-sixth digest of papers and preprints published by members of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology is here!</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Protists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Protists</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Algae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Algae</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Microbes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microbes</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Evolution</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bacteria</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Archaea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Archaea</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Symbiosis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Symbiosis</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Parasites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Parasites</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/TreeOfLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TreeOfLife</span></a></p>
Mikko Tuomi<p>The origin of the eukaryotic cell corresponded to the most significant increase in <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>complexity</span></a> in the history of <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>life</span></a>'s evolution on Earth.</p><p>The billions of years that have passed since the fusion of an <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/archaea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaea</span></a> and a <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bacteria</span></a> have resulted in a lack of evolutionary intermediates in the phylogenetic tree until the emergence of the <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/eukaryotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eukaryotes</span></a>.</p><p>Now researchers present theoretical and observational evidence that a phase transition in genetic complexity was involved.</p><p><a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-04-evolutionary-algorithmic-phase-transition-billion.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-04-evolutio</span><span class="invisible">nary-algorithmic-phase-transition-billion.html</span></a></p>
naturepoker<p>Quick question for <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/archaea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaea</span></a> folks - have you ever seen Halobacterial culture bottles produce extremely hard, round, dark-brown crystals within the liquid media at some point? I'm thinking some mineral slipped through in the media making, but am curious.</p>
Matt Willemsen<p>Defense system common to all life came from 'Asgard'<br><a href="https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/evolution/defense-system-common-to-all-life-came-from-asgard" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">livescience.com/planet-earth/e</span><span class="invisible">volution/defense-system-common-to-all-life-came-from-asgard</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Asgard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Asgard</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/archaea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaea</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/viruses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>viruses</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/immunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immunity</span></a></p>
bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦<p>After ~1.5 years I've updated the SkewDB, which now contains details of the GC skew of over 53,000 chromosomes and plasmids. GC skew is the poorly understood phenomenon where one half of a bacterial chromosome has a small but consistent excess of 'G' compared to 'C'. As seen in Nature Scientific Data (link in page below) <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/DNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DNA</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/gcskew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gcskew</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/archaea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaea</span></a> <br><a href="https://berthub.eu/articles/skewdb/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">berthub.eu/articles/skewdb/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦<p>So sometimes you get these quick wins where suddenly everything works out. By combining my DNA and SQLite tooling, I was able to benefit from the sqlite *spelling* module to fuzzily identify common proteins. This one appears to be present in most <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/archaea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaea</span></a> and is only known as "DUF5786 family protein".</p>
Hari Tulsidas<p>The third form of life on Earth, archaea, has unique biochemical properties that could revolutionise energy generation. This ancient life form's ability to produce methane efficiently might lead to new, sustainable power sources. A groundbreaking step in our understanding of life and energy.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EnergyInnovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyInnovation</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Archaea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Archaea</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SustainableEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SustainableEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Biochemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biochemistry</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a61078291/third-form-life-hydrogen-enzyme-energy-breakthrough/?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_content=HariTulsidas%2Fmagazine%2FMind+and+Matter" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">popularmechanics.com/science/a</span><span class="invisible">nimals/a61078291/third-form-life-hydrogen-enzyme-energy-breakthrough/?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_content=HariTulsidas%2Fmagazine%2FMind+and+Matter</span></a></p>
Frank Aylward<p>Happy to share the latest manuscript from our lab, in which we propose that eukaryotes evolved from a genomic chimera of Asgard archaea and giant viruses.</p><p><a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.22.590592v1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20</span><span class="invisible">24.04.22.590592v1</span></a> </p><p>This is a controversial topic, but we believe we have strong evidence to suggest a critical viral role in eukaryogenesis. </p><p><a href="https://genomic.social/tags/viruses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>viruses</span></a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/protists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protists</span></a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/eukaryotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eukaryotes</span></a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/TreeOfLIfe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TreeOfLIfe</span></a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/archaea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaea</span></a></p>
ISEP<p>New <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/ISEPpapers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ISEPpapers</span></a>! Encyclopaedia of family A DNA polymerases localized in <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/organelles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>organelles</span></a>: Evolutionary contribution of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bacteria</span></a> including the proto-mitochondrion <a href="https://academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-article/doi/10.1093/molbev/msae014/7589574" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-a</span><span class="invisible">rticle/doi/10.1093/molbev/msae014/7589574</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/protists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protists</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/eukaryogenesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eukaryogenesis</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/archaea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaea</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/microbes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microbes</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a></p>
Mikko Tuomi<p>Marine <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/microorganisms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microorganisms</span></a> are crucial for <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ocean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ocean</span></a> health.</p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bacteria</span></a>, <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/archaea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaea</span></a>, <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/fungi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fungi</span></a>, <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/algae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>algae</span></a> and <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/viruses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>viruses</span></a> make up most of the biomass in the seas and form the base of marine food webs.</p><p>They support nutrient cycling and drive crucial biogeochemical processes, including key steps in the carbon, nitrogen and silicon cycles.</p><p>Ocean modelling must evolve to take their biological complexity into account.</p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biology</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecology</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/oceans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oceans</span></a><br><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03425-4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/d41586-023</span><span class="invisible">-03425-4</span></a></p>
Nina Davtian<p>Are <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/nerdy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nerdy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/membrane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>membrane</span></a>-spanning <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/lipids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lipids</span></a> produced by <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bacteria</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/archaea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaea</span></a> admitted on <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a>?</p><p>These lipids, named glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GDGTs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GDGTs</span></a>), are my favorite <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/biomarkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biomarkers</span></a> for their usefulness as <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/climatic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climatic</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environmental</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/indicators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indicators</span></a> and for having been the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/protagonists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protagonists</span></a> of my <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/PhD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a>.</p><p>Recently, I participated to an <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/international" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>international</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/workshop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workshop</span></a> organized by <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GDGT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GDGT</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/nerds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nerds</span></a> for GDGT nerds, sadly not active on this <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/platform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>platform</span></a> as far as I know.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ScienceMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceMastodon</span></a></p>
PLOS Biology<p>Anaerobic <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/methanotrophic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>methanotrophic</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/archaea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaea</span></a> &amp; sulfate-reducing <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bacteria</span></a> form a unique partnership in deep-sea ecosystems. @OrphanANME &amp;co reveal a possible evolutionary trajectory of the bacterial partner towards this syntrophic lifestyle <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PLOSBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PLOSBiology</span></a> <a href="https://plos.io/46jNVuY" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">plos.io/46jNVuY</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Sterling Ericsson<p>While we are still trying to find ways to clean up problems like oil spills in the ocean, microorganisms in the seas have their own insights to impart.</p><p>Oil rich soil from the Guaymas Basin has provided German scientists understanding of a mechanism by which archaea in the Alkanophaga break down alkane molecules and thus degrade petroleum through oxidation.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Remediation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Remediation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Bioremediation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bioremediation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Oil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oil</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Petroleum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Petroleum</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Archaea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Archaea</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Alkanophaga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alkanophaga</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Scicomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scicomm</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-023-01400-3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/s41564-023</span><span class="invisible">-01400-3</span></a></p>
Dezene Huber 🌻<p>Welcome, new followers!</p><p>I am an <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/ecologist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecologist</span></a> mainly working with <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/insects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>insects</span></a>, although I've published on <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/archaea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaea</span></a>, <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bacteria</span></a>, <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/fungi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fungi</span></a>, <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/plants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plants</span></a>, and non-insect <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>animals</span></a>.</p><p>Work in my lab and with collaborators ranges from <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/genomes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genomes</span></a> to <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/organisms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>organisms</span></a> to landscapes and ecosystems.</p><p>I'm a <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/professor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>professor</span></a> in the <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Faculty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Faculty</span></a> of <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> at the <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/University" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>University</span></a> of <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Northern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Northern</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/British" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>British</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a> in beautiful Prince George, BC: <a href="https://www2.unbc.ca/people/huber-dr-dezene" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www2.unbc.ca/people/huber-dr-d</span><span class="invisible">ezene</span></a></p><p>I'm particularly concerned about <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biodiversity</span></a> and <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> change.</p><p>🪲🦋🐝🐞🕷️</p>
PLOS Biology<p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Viruses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Viruses</span></a> infecting <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bacteria</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/archaea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaea</span></a> are often identified via metagenomics, but information regarding <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/phage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>phage</span></a> hosts is lost. @simroux_virus &amp;co present iPHoP, a new tool to maximize host prediction for <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/metagenome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metagenome</span></a>-assembled virus genomes <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PLOSBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PLOSBiology</span></a> <a href="https://plos.io/41A5QvG" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">plos.io/41A5QvG</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
PLOS Biology<p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Viruses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Viruses</span></a> infecting <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bacteria</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/archaea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaea</span></a> are often identified via metagenomics, but information regarding <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/phage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>phage</span></a> hosts is lost. @simroux_virus &amp;co present iPHoP, a new tool to maximize host prediction for <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/metagenome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metagenome</span></a>-assembled virus genomes <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PLOSBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PLOSBiology</span></a> <a href="https://plos.io/41A5QvG" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">plos.io/41A5QvG</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
PLOS Biology<p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Viruses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Viruses</span></a> infecting <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bacteria</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/archaea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaea</span></a> are often identified via metagenomics, but information regarding <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/phage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>phage</span></a> hosts is lost. @simroux_virus &amp;co present iPHoP, a new tool to maximize host prediction for <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/metagenome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metagenome</span></a>-assembled virus genomes <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PLOSBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PLOSBiology</span></a> <a href="https://plos.io/41A5QvG" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">plos.io/41A5QvG</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>