Ever wondered how bacterial pathogens evolved? In our latest work, we provide insight about how obligate host-associated Rickettsiales evolved from free-living relatives. See here: nature.com/articles/s4156…. Great work by Max Emil Schön @JoranMartijn Julian Vosseberg & Stephan Köstlbacher

Researchers report more than 1,400 genes across 218 #insect species that originated from bacteria, viruses, fungi, and plants. Cell zju.edu.cn/english/2022/0… #ZJUresearch #microbes

Not all inheritance follows Mendel's laws, we reviewed many of the remarkable genetic oddities among animals Annual Reviews @AndrewMongue @SchwanderTanja Christina Hodson annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114…

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ElinavLab Cell I used p5xjs to make this very nice journal cover playable. Try it here: editor.p5js.org/jmutterer/full…

The sex chromosome symposium of #eseb2022 will lock me in one room for the whole day of Aug.18th with so much excitement! eseb2022.cz/en/event-progr…

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Postdoc opportunity in my future lab at the Ohio State University!!! We will study transposable elements' response to abiotic stresses in plants using modern sequencing. Nice location, Well paid, Great benefits, Starts on Jan 3rd, 2023. Please RT. Apply: osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/job…

New paper led by grad student Yu Mo (Yu Mo), with @RobLanfear and Bui Quang Minh. Updated site concordance factor calculations! (yay!) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

(1/4) Did you know that there are bacteria in human tumors? Well, this is old news now 😊. Our new study, featured on the cover of Cell, shows that human tumors contain fungi as well and that tumor fungi matter! (Cover by Marzia Munafò) cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

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Mystery find of microbial DNA elements called Borgs. Out today in nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

How has HGT shaped the evolution of insect genomes?By Chao Liu, Yang Li (Alex), RokasLab, Xingxing Shen, & other colleagues. sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Phylogenomics of magic mushrooms. "Phylogenomics of the psychoactive mushroom genus Psilocybe and evolution of the psilocybin biosynthetic gene cluster" biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Be sure to check out our new paper now published in Nature Communications describing ecological, phenotypic, and phylogenetic data of strains within the genus Saccharomyces: rdcu.be/c5agO This work led by David Peris 🔬🍄🍺🍷♻️ was highly collaborative and we're thrilled to see it out!

Horizontal gene transfer in Eukaryotes is real

How do mutation rates compare across mammals, fishes, birds and reptiles? New work in nature finds: 1. Higher mutation rates in males in mammals & birds, but not in reptiles & fishes. 2. Generation time, age at maturity & fecundity affect mutation rates. nature.com/articles/s4158…

New light on a recent question in fungal multicellular development: is A-to-I editing important? In the Ascomycota this is becoming pretty convincing, whereas in Basidiomycota data suggest editing is not key pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…