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Time to show some of our 2018 highlights - new discoveries ! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Random mutagenesis of a hyperthermophilic archaeon identified tRNA modifications associated with cellular hyperthermotolerance academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…

Apollo: Democratizing genome annotation biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_bioinfo

Phage Mu Gam protein promotes NHEJ in concert with Escherichia coli ligase pnas.org/content/115/50…

How do viruses jump species?Virologists & epidemiologists view the emergence of new viral diseases in very different ways; here two virologists (Cody Warren, Sara Sawyer) discuss how animal viruses come to infect humans #PLOSBiology #Zoonosis plos.io/2Zv3LkQ

Just published in NAR: “Adenovirus major core protein condenses DNA in clusters and bundles, modulating genome release and capsid pressure” by N. Martín-González et al #virus #adenovirus #DNA #condensation #protein #AFM #cryoEM #pressure academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…

Energy flux controls tetraether lipid cyclization in Sulfolobus acidocaldarius biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

Cell Structure Changes in the Hyperthermophilic Crenarchaeon Sulfolobus islandicus Lacking the S-Layer mbio.asm.org/content/10/4/e…

Our Dallol hydrothermal system microbial diversity paper just out NatureEcoEvo. Despite abundant liquid water, we found two new life limits: no life in hyperacidic+hypersaline pools and in the Mg-rich Yellow and Black lakes nature.com/articles/s4155…

Reconstructing the evolutionary origins of extreme halophilic Archaeal lineages biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Ribosome Profiling in Archaea Reveals Leaderless Translation, Novel Translational Initiation Sites, and Ribosome Pausing at Single Codon Resolution biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv

A bacterial dynamin-like protein confers a novel phage resistance strategy on the population level in Bacillus subtilis biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

Online now - a Spotlight from @Ying74382828 @mkrupovic titled "Genome chromatinization in giant double-stranded DNA viruses". They highlight recent work describing viral nucleosomes and pose questions on the origins of eukaryotic histone proteins: bit.ly/3FLYIlv

The remarkable diversity & evolution of tailed #archaeal viruses (order Caudoviricetes), which with their bacterial relatives arguably represent the most abundant & widespread virus group on Earth @Ying74382828 Tatiana Demina 🕊 @mkrupovic &co #PLOSBiology plos.io/3C1I5Pz

Be sure to also read Spotlights on DAXX in #proteinfolding (@BoeynaemsSteven) and histones in #giantviruses (@Ying74382828 @mkrupovic), as well as a #TechoftehMonth on ancestral sequence reconstruction (Dr. Denise O.)! cell.com/biochemical-sc…

Fascinating study by Chen et al. of temperate, archaeal pleolipovirus and the genetic control over lysogeny. See doi.org/10.1093/nar/gk…

Great collaboration with colleague Xiandong, @mkrupovic and @Ying74382828 to show that "A virus-borne DNA damage signaling pathway controls the lysogeny-induction switch in a group of temperate pleolipoviruses" academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…

Diversity of Bathyarchaeia viruses in metagenomes and virus-encoded CRISPR system components biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

Diversity of Bathyarchaeia viruses in metagenomes and virus-encoded CRISPR system components academic.oup.com/ismecommun/art…