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Louis-Marie Bobay @lbobay.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Our latest paper is out with @adiop.bsky.social and @gmdouglas.bsky.social. We analyzed the extent of homologous recombination between bacterial species (introgression) and how it affects species borders (it can vary a lot depending on the approach used to classify species!). rdcu.be/eQAMf

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Introgression impacts the evolution of bacteria, but species borders are rarely fuzzy

Nature Communications - It is commonly thought that bacterial species borders tend to be fuzzy, due to frequent exchange of DNA. Here, Diop et al. quantify the patterns of gene flow between core...

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danielfalush.bsky.social @danielfalush.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

We are hiring! Postdoc position exploring the ecological niche of the Molassodon ecospecies of Vibrio parahaemolyticus, that we @campy-bara.bsky.social have previously shown has a distinct "hunt, kill, devour phenotype in the laboratory. details here: www.simm.cas.cn/web/rcdw/rcz... please share.

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病原菌定量基因组学研究组（DANIEL FALUSH组）博士后招聘启事----中国科学院上海药物研究所

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Chao Yang @chaooo.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Our “Less is more” story is out! 🚀 We reveal how gene loss shaped the adaptive evolution of pandemic Vibrio parahaemolyticus, highlight a potentially general mechanism across bacteria. Huge thanks @danielfalush.bsky.social @campy-bara.bsky.social @jaimemurtaza.bsky.social & all coauthors

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danielfalush.bsky.social @danielfalush.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Molassodon! Excited to post my research group's first laboratory project. We identify a phenotype and a putative ecological strategy for the Molassodon ecospecies of Vibrio parahamolyticus, thanks to the hard work of our lab team led by @campy-bara.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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danielfalush.bsky.social @danielfalush.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Delighted to present our Macrogenetics atlas of prokaryotes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... This is a herculean effort from Chao Yang, which has a previous existence as a preprint first posted in 2018 "why panmictic bacteria are rare?" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Macrogenetic atlas of prokaryotes

Macrogenetics investigates the patterns and predictors of intraspecific genetic variation across diverse taxa, offering a framework to address longstanding evolutionary hypotheses. Here, we present a ...

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Guillaume Méric @gmeric.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Very interesting new preprint from the Falush lab in Shanghai, describing an effort to parameterize a large number of microbial and population (phylo)genetic traits for >15k species, then examining their interactions. Loads to dig up & possibly quite impactful! 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Macrogenetic atlas of prokaryotes

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danielfalush.bsky.social @danielfalush.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Excited to share our preprint "A putative ecocline in Klebsiella pneumoniae" and super-interested to get your feedback. Really want to use the hive mind to get to the bottom of this phenomenon ASAP. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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A putative ecocline in Klebsiella pneumoniae

Are quantitative traits important for bacteriology? The quantitative trait models used in animal and plant genetics assume that the trait takes continuous values and is influenced by many variants cir...

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