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Couple of gorgeous Adders (Vipera berus) from this mornings walk - always a joy to see these

really lovely piece of work from @raufs.bsky.social et al., Complex multicellularity is linked with expanded specialized metabolite production in microorganisms www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Complex multicellularity is linked with expanded specialized metabolite production in microorganisms - Nature MicrobiologyThe evolutionary emergence of complex multicellularity in bacteria and fungi, such as the ability for mycelial growth, is strongly associated with increased genomic carriage of biosynthetic machinery ...www.nature.com

this is very cool - Chemical ecology and convergent evolution of natural hallucinogens: From ecological defense to conserved neural targets www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Cool new preprint of a new defence family! Antimicrobial-resistance plasmids encode Evangelion, a widespread DUF4062 anti-phage defence family www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Antimicrobial-resistance plasmids encode Evangelion, a widespread DUF4062 anti-phage defence familyMany bacterial anti-phage defence systems are encoded by mobile genetic elements, yet much of this antiviral repertoire remains undiscovered. Antimicrobial-resistance plasmids are well known for disse...www.biorxiv.org

First ‘Charles Darwin’ Rose of the year has opened in the garden!

This is an awesome review from @sheppardlab.bsky.social - Epistasis and co-adaptation in bacterial genome #evolution www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Epistasis and co-adaptation in bacterial genome evolution - Nature Reviews GeneticsBacterial genome evolution is shaped by epistasis, which can constrain or promote specific evolutionary paths. The authors review how integrating the effects of epistatic interactions into population-...www.nature.com

This is excellent from @roysleator.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Recently back from an amazing #Herping trip to #Albania and managed to see Europes smallest and rarest Viper - the Greek Meadow Viper (Vipera graeca), lots of careful searching at 1900 metres resulted in finding a beautiful, sub-adult female

wow- The evolution of high-order genome architecture revealed from 1,000 species www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

The evolution of high-order genome architecture revealed from 1,000 speciesComparative Hi-C analysis across 1,025 species reveals that genome architecture has evolved along distinct trajectories, with plants favoring global folding and animals developing checkerboard compart...www.cell.com

#Academia is essentially, repeatedly adding the same information in to a range of different forms on a daily basis

Mind blown! 🤯 Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble beesProblem-solving using novel solutions without explicit training is often considered a hallmark of cognitive flexibility. We investigated whether bumble bees (Bombus terrestris) could solve a novel obj...www.science.org

Island-Hopping Frogs: How Geology, Ocean Currents and Evolution Shaped Biodiversity in the Pacific www.linnean.org/news/2026/04...

Island-Hopping Frogs: How Geology, Ocean Currents and Evolution…Discover the latest news from The Linnean Society of London.www.linnean.org

@countryman100.bsky.social rooting for you guys tonight!

Evolution of genome-wide barriers to gene flow during complex speciation in rattlesnakes - www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

This is cool - ‘Descent from a common ancestor restricts exploration of protein sequence space’ - www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... & a great commentary piece too- ‘Maynard Smith’s analogy, realized: Common ancestry constrains evolutionary percolation through protein space’ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

This is a really cool study - Convergent evolution of aerobic fermentation through divergent mechanisms acting on key shared glycolytic genes link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Convergent evolution of aerobic fermentation through divergent mechanisms acting on key shared glycolytic genes - The EMBO JournalAs the tree of life becomes increasingly accessible to molecular investigations, describing mechanisms underlying evolutionary convergence and constraint will be crucial to understanding diversificati...link.springer.com

Come and study for a PhD with us on antibiotic-producing Streptomyces, trying to understand the roles of primary metabolic enzymes with additional cellular roles - Details below - please repost www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Primary metabolic enzymes in antibiotic-producing Streptomyces bacteria, but not as we know them! at University of Strathclyde on FindAPhD.comPhD Project - Primary metabolic enzymes in antibiotic-producing Streptomyces bacteria, but not as we know them! at University of Strathclyde, listed on FindAPhD.comwww.findaphd.com

Cool paper from the ISBA collection (www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/adva... ) from @evodivmet.bsky.social et al Functional shifts of the dual-substrate phosphoribosyl isomerase PriA from primary to specialized metabolism in rare Actinomycetota www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Really cool work from @mblokesch.bsky.social et al Competence-mediated DNA uptake diversifies Vibrio cholerae sedentary chromosomal integrons www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Competence-mediated DNA uptake diversifies Vibrio cholerae sedentary chromosomal integronsBacteria often survive viral attack and environmental stress by sharing genes that enhance their defenses. The cholera pathogen Vibrio cholerae carries a sedentary chromosomal integron (SCI), a genetic element containing hundreds of mostly promoterless ...www.science.org

@christianlandry.bsky.social thanks for the SMBE talk today Christian, wonderful work!