You’ve heard of blue-blooded, but that pales (literally) in comparison to white-blooded icefishes 🐟, the only #vertebrates without #hemoglobin! 🩸 Shin et al., (with help from #SequenceServer!) reveal that #gene loss may be to blame. Congrats to the authors! 🎉

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#genomics

Thanks to new #research on gars & bowfins, the evolution of #vertebrate #immune surveillance just got more garbled🐟Turns out these #fish have their own PSMB8 types, completely unique among vertebrates! Fascinating! 🧬

Congrats to the authors! Glad #SequenceServer could help!

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Open Sesame! 🪄 By now you know we love an open access #database! Well, SesamumGDB, the brand-new #genomic database for cultivated & wild #sesame #species, is here! 🌿
Plus, with #SequenceServer integration, you can #BLAST away to your heart’s content! 🧬 Link 👇
Happy BLASTing!

🌻Sunflowers, 🥬lettuces, & 🫖chamomile: all from the #Asteraceae family, which covers 7% of flowering #plant diversity! This makes AMIR, a multi-omics #database with 74 species, 4.4M annotated #genes, & #SequenceServer BLAST capabilities, a huge deal!

Congrats Liu et al.

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🚨 #BLASTfromthePast: Revisiting a truly enlightening study on the origins of firefly #bioluminescence. 🌟 Did fireflies and click #beetles share a glowing ancestor? Or did they #evolve it separately? Fascinating paper! Proud that #SequenceServer could play a part!
#genomics #genetics #bioinformatics

🌱Peas are #plant protein powerhouses (phew, that's a lot of P's!), but their quality relies on sulfur availability. Bachelet et al., with the help of #SequenceServer, explore how #pea adapts to low-sulfur environments using #sulfate transporters.

Check out the paper (link👇)

#genomics #agronomy