Beetles are masters at coopting microbial genes, enzymes & metabolites. In this Trends in Microbiology article, Marleny García Lozano & I review how microbes shaped one of the most successful animal radiations, thru horizontal gene transfer & symbiosis: cell.com/trends/microbi…

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Happy to see the 2nd manuscript of my thesis on bioRxiv! We explore the subdivision of the withanolide BGC in Physalis into two sub-clusters with tissue-specific expression linked to chromatin differences. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

1/ Our lab’s first preprint found a wonderful journal home! 🎉 Our paper explores the role of testis-specific transcription factors in Drosophila and reveals broad functional connections between tissue-specific paralog proteins. 📝: genesdev.cshlp.org/content/early/…

New preprint! An atlas of conserved TF binding sites across flowering plants generated with multiplexed DAP-seq. When integrated with multi-species snRNA- and snATAC-seq reveals how TF activity shapes development and stress responses at the cellular level.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Does the aggregation of complex multicellularity follow a universal developmental pattern across the eukaryotic tree of life? Thrilled to announce that we found a convergently evolved transcriptomic hourglass pattern in brown algal development. nature 👉nature.com/articles/s4158…

Our new Update in Plant Physiology discusses advances in our understanding of epigenetic, transcriptional, translational & posttranslational control of hypoxic gene expression in plants 🌱 Frederica Theodoulou julia serres academic.oup.com/plphys/article…

🥳Happy 🥳to share the final version now officially published in Nature Communications Repeat-based holocentromeres of the woodrush Luzula sylvatica reveal insights into the evolutionary transition to holocentricity nature.com/articles/s4146… Awesome work from Yennifer Mata-Sucre 🇻🇪 and Marie Krátká

So needed: red algae is one of the first eukaryotic lineages to evolve #multicellularity, but genomic data is still scarce. Here a a chromosome-level genome assembly of Bostrychia moritziana is presented. The authors find a significant genome size expansion in Bostrychia compared

Our new work Molecular Biology and Evolution How old are viruses? Here we developed a host-calibrated dating method and inferred the evolutionary timescale of #giantvirus, which have large genomes and infect various eukaryotes, incl. animals, algae, and many others. academic.oup.com/mbe/article/42…

Happy to share my PhD paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tp… Great collaboration with Mike Michael Borg Nicholas and his team Nicholas Provart @bar-plantbio.bsky.social

New Letter: "Sporophyte-directed gametogenesis in Arabidopsis" rdcu.be/ed0V0 In flowering plants the gametophyte develops within the sporophyte. Male gametophyte development in Arabidopsis is directed by the sporophyte through repression of gametogenesis genes.