Jumbo phage–mediated transduction of genomic islands | PNAS Bacteria acquire new genes by horizontal gene transfer, typically mediated by mobile genetic elements (MGEs). While plasmids, bacteriophages, and c...

@prczhaoyansong.bsky.social’s deep dive into the dark matter of compost communities is now out 🎉 Genomic islands hijack jumbo phages—whose capsids enable transfer of large tracts of DNA—shedding new light on the scale & scope of phage-mediated gene flow 😎

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I think it also aligns with the survival strategy of top journals, where they seek for the papers that are expected to be highly cited. People would cite apart from the quality of evidence if the paper is appealing and has been published on the top journal. What's the starting point to fix this?

No new genes needed to fly - just rewire what you have! 🦇🧬

Great new paper from the labs of @fany-real.bsky.social @stemundi.bsky.social @dariloops.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#EvoDevo #SingleCell #BatWings

Still on a science high after an incredible Microbial Population GRS/GRC. Honored to have been able to talk about my work. Grateful for all the amazing feedback, ideas, and inspiring conversations—especially from the brilliant scientists whose papers I’ve long admired. Can’t wait for the next one!

Functional regimes define soil microbiome response to environmental change - Nature Experimental perturbation of soil pH leads to a generalizable model of the soil microcosm comprising three functional regimes with distinct mechanisms linking environmental change to metabolite dynami...

Published in Nature today! Here, we sought to systematically ask how natural community's metabolism changes with the environment. A simple consumer-resource model can predict N-cycle metabolism (nitrate use) and, more importantly, the mechanism behind its change.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Large-scale duplication events underpin population-level flexibility in tRNA gene copy number in Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25 Abstract. The complement of tRNA genes within a genome is typically considered to be a (relatively) stable characteristic of an organism. Here, we demonstrate t

Glad to share our work with Dr. Jenna Gallie's group! The study reports on the mechanism of how the tRNA gene repertoire can become flexible within a population level, which was originally considered to be much more stable. Great job, @guyngan.bsky.social !
#MicroSky #EvoSky

You may can infer from my another interest, bacterial translation 😉. I'm working on PRF of prfB gene, which is a gene of release factor 2(RF2), a protein recognizing stop codons and terminates translation. In this case PRF works as an *Autoregulation* of RF2 expression!

Excited to join the conference. There are interesting topics and great participants.
Please consider joining virtually if you are interested. The registration is still open. Also, it's FREE!
#MicroSky #EvoSky

Looking forward to share my research contents, experiences and ideas.
Also I love knowing and reading about Evolution, History&Philosophy of Science, Bacteria so let's share many fun stuffs!😄

This is an introductory post of myself.
I'm Sungbin Lim, from South Korea, doing PhD in Microbial Evolutionay Dymanics group with Dr. Jenna Gallie in MPI for Evolutionary Biology.
I'm interested in evolution of bacterial translation and programmed ribosomal frameshifting (PRF).
Nice to meet you!

Women in Evolutionary Biology Women in Evolutionary Biology is an event to promote diversity and equality in the field. For this purpose, we bring together female scientists from different backgrounds working in evolutionary bi...

New conference/workshop "Women in evolutionary biology" at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology. Registration until 15 January, the event is in May 2024.
🧪👩‍🔬 #ecoevo
Iink here: workshops.evolbio.mpg.de/event/102/re...

🦠 Do microbiomes have their own microbiomes? 🦠

Well... kind of. Much smaller than bacteria, there is a whole zoo of Darwinian entities that depend on microbial hosts. We could call these collectives "nanobiomes", and there's much to explore!

🧵 A thread (originally on Twitter, now on Bsky) ⬇️

Great. You deserve to take my first likes! 😂