Experiments in the cnidarian Nematostella vectensis show a role of gene body methylation in transposable element suppression and that epigenetic inheritance is constrained by chromatin context and tra...

Methods using environmental nucleic acids have become highly effective for monitoring aquatic biodiversity, with an array of suitable use cases, including metrics for fisheries assessment. Traditiona...

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Current Conservation Mysteries of the deep sea captured by the mouth of a sponge

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A new initiative by the International Seabed Authority has set an ambitious goal, and our team is one of the first to be involved.

Assessment of how genetic diversity has been changing.

Corallium rubrum is an octocoral (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) distributed in the Mediterranean Sea and in the neighboring North-Eastern Atlantic. Due to its arborescent morphology, this habitat-forming specie...

Fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) is a powerful tool for visualising the spatial organisation of microbial communities. However, traditional FISH has several limitations, including ​​limited p...

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Busquem un/a freelance en comunicació científica apassionat/da per la divulgació per sumar-se a l'equip de la Iniciativa Catalana pel Earth Biogenome Project (CBP). Tasques: · Dissenyar, redactar i de...

The current “consensus” order in which amino acids were added to the genetic code is based on potentially biased criteria, such as the absence of s...

Metabarcoding has emerged as a robust method for understanding biodiversity patterns by retrieving environmental DNA (eDNA) directly from ecosystems. Its low cost and accessibility have extended its…