Our new paper on MitoHiFi is out! 🎉: MitoHiFi is a python pipeline to assemble mitochondrial genomes using PacBio HiFi reads! Available as a docker container on GitHub + bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Computational Reproducibility of Molecular Phylogenies buff.ly/3OEAG28 #science #evolution #biology #genome

Genome Comparison Reveals Inversions and Alternative Evolutionary History of Nutritional Endosymbionts in Planthoppers (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) buff.ly/45f1V97 From JunchenDeng Piotr Łukasik Anna Michalik and Diego Castillo Franco #science #evolution #biology #genome

ggcoverage: an R package to visualize and annotate genome coverage for various NGS data Github: github.com/showteeth/ggco… Paper: bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… #Rstats #Genomics #Bioinformatics

Curious to see how #Midichloria enter the host #mitochondria? Happy and sad to share the last paper from late colleague Fabrizia Stavru with Davide Sassera. Congratulations to all authors and especially Zerrin Uzum who tenaciously finalized this work. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Sayumi Oishi's amazing work on insect hormonal regulation over morphology and function of symbiotic organ and essential bacterial mutualist therein upon metamorphosis finally comes out! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

A #newspecies of Discochiton Hodgson & Williams (#Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: #Coccidae) on bamboo from #Myanmar mapress.com/zt/article/vie… #Taxonomy

This is not waterdrop on bamboo... :) A new species of scale insect is out from Myanmar! Their adult female and the 1st instar are described and illustrated. mapress.com/zt/article/vie…

Interested in learning how to run #blastn, #blastp, and #blastx efficiently on the #Linux command line using #AWK, #Bash, #Perl, and #R code/idioms? This extensive and detailed hands-on tutorial may interest you 👉 bit.ly/3QcR2Qn #Bioinformatics #Blast LCG UNAM 💻🧑‍💻

Happy to share that our new article describing nutritional intracellular Burkholderia symbionts in scale insects has just been published in ISME J!! with Insect Symbiosis Lab nature.com/articles/s4139…

Happy to share a new pre-print from the McCutcheon lab! This has been a fun collaboration with Andrew Mongue and Laura Ross et al. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Marleny, Hassan and other colleagues' amazing work on the evolutionary dynamics of digestive symbionts of leaf beetles is now online: Paleocene origin of a streamlined digestive symbiosis in leaf beetles: Current Biology cell.com/current-biolog…

"Limited variation in microbial communities across populations of Macrosteles leafhoppers" - our lab's new paper in Env Microbiol Reports! Not all insects have variable microbiota, and host gene amplicon seq really helps with wild-insect microbiota study! …icro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…

We are very proud to announce our new paper published in mSystems, in which we described unique bacterial association and transmission mechanisms alongside other unique symbiosis evolutionary patterns! with Piotr Łukasik Diego Castillo Franco journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

New pre-print! Defensive symbionts only occur in some insect species, but why? We show that symbiont distributions strongly align with sharing the same parasitoids, highlighting antagonists as key agents shaping symbioses across host species. 🪲 More here rb.gy/5t4s4w

Thrilled to share our new paper on bioRxiv: "Ancient endosymbionts of giant scale insects with atypical pseudogene-rich genomes, worked with Pradeep and Filip Husnik (is here: filiphusnik.bsky.soc). Check it out here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Excited to share an additional preprint on mealybug diversification and its associations with endosymbionts and host plants. Thanks Filip Husnik (is here: filiphusnik.bsky.soc) Pradeep! Check it out here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Taxonomic review of three species of the #genus #Pseudococcus Westwood, 1840 (#Hemiptera: #Coccomorpha: #Pseudococcidae) found in #Okinawa Island, #Japan, with description of a #newspecies #taxonomy doi.org/10.11646/zoota…

It was very nice to have participate on this study where we describe 2 novel fossil species of Paleoophiocordyceps, also providing insights into the evolution of animal-associated fungi

Walczuchella, a bacterial endosymbiont of giant scale insects, exhibits a pronounced degree of pseudogenization. doi.org/10.1093/molbev… The article has been published in the journal Molecular Biology of Evolution.Molecular Biology and Evolution Filip Husnik (is here: filiphusnik.bsky.soc) Pradeep