New paper out 🔔

How do Mediterranean echinoderms cope with rapid warming? We show that species - and even populations - respond differently to acute temperature increases, highlighting the importance of metabolic plasticity.

Read more ⬇️
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Frontiers | Sea urchin holobionts: microbiome variation across species, compartments and locations in Paracentrotus lividus and Arbacia lixula Understanding holobiont dynamics is essential for unraveling the complex interactions between marine hosts and their microbiota. Sea urchins play pivotal rol...

New paper out 🔔

We present a comparative microbiome analysis of Paracentrotus lividus and Arbacia lixula across different body compartments and biogeographic regions.

Check it out! 👀

🔗 doi.org/10.3389/fmar...

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Frontiers | Effect of ocean acidification on the oxygen consumption of the sea urchins Paracentrotus lividus (Lamarck, 1816) and Arbacia lixula (Linnaeus, 1758) living in CO2 natural gradients

#PapersBiologiaUB-@irbio-ub.bsky.social | 🌊 L'acidificació oceànica, deguda a l'increment de CO₂ atmosfèric, altera el metabolisme dels eriçons de mar i comporta costos energètics, malgrat la seva plasticitat.

Quines són les conseqüències ecològiques? 👇

doi.org/10.3389/fmar...

✨ What a week in Barcelona! 🇪🇸✨

Last day of the Machine Learning for Multi-Omics Integration course at the University of Barcelona with @oskolkov.bsky.social 🚀

Thanks to everyone who´s joined us this week — we wish you all the best with your current and future projects📊
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The PhD students of the team, are taking part in the Machine Learning for Multi-Omics Integration course 🧬🤖

Learning how to connect data and AI to unlock new insights!

#seminarioMNCN 'Echinoderms in a changing ocean: strategies for survival'
Por Rocío Pérez Portela (Universidad de Barcelona @adaptiveteam.bsky.social)
📅3 de octubre, 12h
Presencial y online👉 www.youtube.com/live/qP744Fe...

Congratulations to Vanessa Arranz for her participation in the 14th international temperate reef symposium (ITRS25) in Brest, France.

An impressive talk about: Strategies of echinoderms in response to ocean acidification. An “omics” approach from a natural laboratory.

Good job💪🏼⭐️

🌍 Wide distribution: Lives on rocky and sandy substrates from intertidal zones down to 100 m depth, spanning the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic.

🧬 Asexual reproduction via fission: It splits along its central disc and regenerates the missing parts. In the western Mediterranean, only one male genotype has been found — replicated through repeated cloning!

Introducing Coscinasterias tenuispina — a fascinating multi-armed starfish from the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic 🌊

💪🏼 Variable arm number: this species typically has 6 to 9 arms, a trait linked to its mode of asexual reproduction.

Yesterday, our PhD student Marta Martín Huete took part in @pintofscience.es in Reus, sharing her research on chromosomal inversions!

A fantastic opportunity to bring science closer to everyone!🙌🏼

#PintOfScience2025 #PINTES25 #AdaptiveTeam

Today we launched our weekly team seminar series! First up was Vanessa Arranz with ‘Starting Guide for Bioinformatic Pipelines – Microbiome Case’.

Great insights and discussions to start the series strong!🙌🏼💡

Hi!

We’re the Adaptive Team — an interdisciplinary research group from the @ub.edu and the @ull.es, led by Rocío Pérez Portela (@perez-portela.bsky.social) and José Carlos Hernández.

We’re so excited to join Bluesky!
Follow us to stay updated on our latest work and discoveries! 🌊🧬

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