📣 EvolDir is now managed by @eseb.bsky.social!

We are delighted to be taking the reins and express our gratitude to both Brian Golding who began this service to the community in the mid-1980s and to @rdmpage.bsky.social who ran this account until now 👏

You can now find evoldir here: evoldir.net

Really excited to share our new paper from @ibe-warszawa.bsky.social protist team! 🎉

We dive into protist symbioses and show how these interactions shape ecosystems and have played a key role in the evolution of eukaryotes 🦠

Research Interested in Expansion Microscopy for your microbial eukaryotes? Through the ExÂME project, we offer free pilot tests to evaluate samples, on-site training workshops in Geneva and Heidelberg, and col...

If you want to hear more about the project or want to chat ExM, find me at ISOP (talk on Thursday) or contact us www.dudinlab.com/you-want-to-...
#ExpandThemAll
@dudinlab.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social & Tom Richards
@moorefound.bsky.social

Diverse origins of peptidoglycan biosynthesis enzymes in Glaucophyta and Viridiplantae Chloroplast peptidoglycan is considered a remnant inherited from the ancestral cyanobacterial endosymbionts and has served as visual evidence for the …

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #protistsonsky

Living together: evolutionary and ecological dimensions of protist endosymbiosis From symbionts to organelles: evolutionary integration of microbial partners into eukaryotic cells.

academic.oup.com/microlife/ar...
#protistsonsky

GitHub - frederic-mahe/nf-pore2taxa: quick taxonomic assignment of Nanopore metabarding data quick taxonomic assignment of Nanopore metabarding data - frederic-mahe/nf-pore2taxa

Quick taxonomic assignment of Nanopore metabarcoding data

Hot off the press!
We are sharing oligoN-design, an open-source tool to find specific probes and primers from large molecular datasets, without relying on specific databases, alignments or phylogenetic trees.
@mariescopy.bsky.social @rmassanam.bsky.social @beaplab.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/1755...

Increased prey choice is associated with higher kleptoplastidic reliance in Mesodinium ciliates Kleptoplastidic organisms display varying levels of reliance on stolen plastids, with some lineages evolving complex strategies for plastid (and other organelle) integration into metabolism. More com...

I know late to the party and all but very excited to see this: support for the hypothesis that increased prey specificity correlates with more tightly integrated kleptoplasts – from @mixotrophe.bsky.social lab (wrong image associated with link)
#protistsonsky
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

a simplified evolutionary tree of eukaryotes with pictures of various microbes

New #ISEPpapers #preprint by @deemteam.bsky.social: Re-evaluating the eukaryotic Tree of Life with independent phylogenomic data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#Protists #Microbes #Evolution #Eukaryotes #TreeOfLife #Phylogeny #Phylogenomics #Bioinformatics #Algae

DinoSphere - Online talks Video credits: Liz Cooney

Tune in this week to the DinoSphere seminar to hear Rocío Mozo Muñoz (IBE-UPF-CSIC) talk about her work in phylogenomics of Symbiodiniaceae!

📆 16 April - 9AM CEST
🔗 tinyurl.com/5fje3s55

@ehehenberger.bsky.social @manondemulder.bsky.social @chandnibhickta.bsky.social Norico Yamada, Edmée Royen

That would have been so easy to get it right

That made me cringed too

I went to see Project Hail Mary with my daughter tonight. Now she understands why I study protists: they can literally save the universe #protistsonsky

We stumbled upon an unusual gene called 'rqua' in the genome of some freshwater sponges. In microbes, this gene confers the ability to make a ubiquinone analog - rhodoquinone - which can help the respiratory chain run without oxygen.

Cool! Where are you headed ?

Very useful article.

#protistsonsky

#protistsonsky

We tested the efficacy of semi-permeable capsules to capture protists from cultures and environmental samples using the Onyx from @atrandi.bsky.social. Tremendous effort from everyone in the lab and led by Marco Fantini and Nik Brask - check out the videos here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

MBE Call for Papers on the Major Transitions of Life

MBE is excited to launch our newest Call for Papers on the Major Transitions of Life, covering all aspects of phylogenomic research.

🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/pages/call-for-papers-on-the-major-transitions-of-life

Guest Editors:
Davide Pisani
Anja Spang

#evobio #molbio #phylogenetics

Unbinned contigs expand known diversity in the global microbiome Nature Microbiology, Published online: 03 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-026-02314-6Re-analysis of over 92,000 metagenomes reveals hundreds of thousands of previously undescribed Bacterial and Archaeal clades hidden in plain sight.

Out Now! Unbinned contigs expand known diversity in the global microbiome #MicroSky

New preprint! We identified many components that localize to the structure involved in "eating" in a marine organism.
#ProtistOnSky #diplonemid
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The PNW is so beautiful. Everywhere you look is another WOW moment

This post perfectly aligns with my interests…

This.

Transient molecular chimerism for exploiting xenogeneic organelles - Nature Communications Kleptoplasty, the transient integration of foreign organelles, could illuminate organellogenesis. Here, using the flagellate, Rapaza viridis, the authors show that host nuclear proteins are imported i...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... #protistsonsky

Our new article on #protist global distributions combining the #Mixoplankton and #metaPR2 databases with newly revised functional annotations.

rdcu.be/fanlx

#symbiosky

Credit: Mylan Ansel

Expansion microscopy of a loricate choanoflagellate, generated by Mylan Ansel in our lab 🤩

(yes, the lorica expands. No, we don't understand how either)

95 new Fellows join the European Academy of Microbiology 🔬

The newly elected Fellows represent a wide range of expertise across microbiology and related disciplines , spanning institutions across Europe and beyond.

Read the full announcement📄https://buff.ly/CdRK14U