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Rosa Fernández

@rosafernandez.bsky.social
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Evolutionary biologist, Inst. Evol. Biol. (CSIC, Barcelona). Invertebrate genomics, trying to understand how animals colonised land (and also caves). www.metazomics.com

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Adlung Lab @adlunglab.com · 20/08/2026
Great Nature Career piece on the "lottery" aspect of grant decisions, its pros and cons. Still liked the VolkswagenStiftung approach! www.nature.com/artic... 🧪
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When the best decision is no decision: the rise of randomization in grant funding
Nature - If reviewers can’t reliably tell the difference between top grant proposals, why should they pretend they can? A new wave of funders is turning to lotteries to break the tie.
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Rosa Fernández @rosafernandez.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
New paper from the lab out! How did animals move repeteadly from water to land? We compared ca. 1,000 animal genomes across the animal kingdom to ask whether evolution reused the same genomic solutions. The answer: same challenge, but many genomic routes 🧵1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Convergent genomic trajectories shape adaptation to life on land across animal lineages - Nature Communications
Animals have moved from water to land many times, but whether they used the same genetic routes has remained unclear. This study shows that independent land transitions relied mostly on ancient, conse...
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Rosa Fernández @rosafernandez.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
New paper out! With @amrojasm.bsky.social @bombarelya.bsky.social @svalver.bsky.social Ildefonso Cases, Scott Handley & yours truly @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social @ibmcp.bsky.social @csic.es
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Academia Joven de España @academiajoven.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
📢 Nos complace anunciar la incorporación de Rosa Fernández @rosafernandez.bsky.social como nueva Vocal de la Junta de Gobierno de la @academiajoven.bsky.social . ¡Mucho éxito en esta nueva etapa! 🤝 #AcadémicaJoven
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
LINGUINE: a phylogeny-aware, orthogroup-based framework for robust ancestral linkage group inference www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Rosa Fernández @rosafernandez.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
New paper from the lab! LINGUINE: a phylogeny-aware, orthogroup-based framework for robust ancestral linkage group inference www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Katharina Hoff @katharinahoff.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Post 1/2 Our new preprint is out! 🧬 We’ve extended #Tiberius for accurate ab initio gene prediction across the eukaryotic tree, including Plants, Fungi, Insects, and Diatoms. doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Jornadas Andaluzas de Bioinformática #JABI2026 @jabi-conference.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Impresionante la presentación de @bombarelya.bsky.social en las #JABI2026. Rigor por la calidad de los datos y una claridad comunicativa que no dejó a nadie indiferente. ¡Un lujo contar con ponentes así!
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Silvia Manrique @tank-silvia.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I am participating in #JABI2026 with a poster on the impact of annotation quality in the analysis of transcriptomic experiments, when working with non-model organisms. This is a collaboration with @bombarelya.bsky.social lab. @jabi-conference.bsky.social
Silvia Manrique smiling next to her poster entitled “Assessment of the impact of annotation quality on a transcriptomic analysis of Solanum melongena”. She is at the JABI2026 conference taking place in the headquarters of cordoba university.
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Carbonetto, @rosafernandez.bsky.social et al. explored genetic changes supporting terrestrial adaptation in planarians, identifying a major burst of gene gain preceding the radiation of terrestrial planarians. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... #genome #evolution
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Genomic Exaptation and Regulatory Landscape Shifts as Key Mechanisms Enabling Flatworm Terrestrialization
Abstract. Understanding the genomic toolkit that enabled animal terrestrialization, the shift from aquatic to terrestrial habitats, is key to uncovering th
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Silvia Manrique @tank-silvia.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Desde que empecé a hacer ikebana en 2019 durante una estancia de investigación en Japón, tenía el sueño de hacer divulgación combinando #ikebana y #botánica. Aprovechando la visita a Europa de mi sensei, #KayokoKondo, hemos organizado unos talleres en @irnasa.bsky.social. No os lo perdáis! 🌸🌷🌻
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Rosa Fernández @rosafernandez.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Finishing your bachelor or master's? Interested in doing a paid internship in our lab @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social ? Check out the JAE-Intro fellowships! 20 hours/week, 7 months, 600€/month. Ping me if you're interested! sede.csic.gob.es/tramites/pro...
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Convocatoria JAE INTRO 2026
Tipo: Ayudas a la formación. Subtipo: JAE INTRO  Categoría: Becas de Introducción a la Investigación. Número de ayudas: 240: 200 de la modalidad JAE INTRO ORGC y 40 de la modalidad JAE INTRO Momentum. Publicación: BDNS (892036) - BOE (11/03/2026)
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ERGA - European Reference Genome Atlas @ergabiodiv.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
#ERGAReads | FANTASIA leverages language models to decode the functional dark proteome across the animal tree of life www.nature.com/articles/s42... @rosafernandez.bsky.social @commsbio.nature.com @csic.es @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social #LLM #proteome #functional #annotation #genomes
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FANTASIA leverages language models to decode the functional dark proteome across the animal tree of life - Communications Biology
FANTASIA, a protein language model-based tool, enables large-scale functional annotation across ~1000 animal proteomes, revealing novel gene functions in both model and non-model organisms beyond…
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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I want to stress that I want AI to do my dishes and house work so that I can write and think, not all the other way around.
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Alexis Stamatakis @stamatak.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Permanent Research Group Leader Position, Crete, Greece: Interested to assume long-term responsibilities for the Biodiversity Computing Group www.biocomp.gr I have set up in Crete? Apply now via apella.minedu.gov.gr/en/node/5998 (PDF also in English) - for questions email to stamatak@ics.forth.gr
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Germán Orizaola @gorizaola.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Article about melanistic fungi in #Chornobyl @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social including a comment about our study with dark frogs (@universidadoviedo.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social ) bbc.com/future/artic...
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Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (IBE) @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
🔦Shedding light on “dark biology”: a true FANTAS-IA? 📕A team led by Rosa Fernández from the @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social, and Ana Rojas from the @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social, has developed an AI-based tool capable of predicting the unknown functions of animal proteins.🧵 👉https://shorturl.at/S9WjN
Ctenophore Beroidae, a gelatinous zooplankton that moves using cilia and feeds on other ctenophores. Credit to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Public domain license. Via Picryl.
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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Innovation isn’t random — it follows geometric laws. Our new Behind the Paper post in @springernature.com Communities explores how innovation forms a fractal geometry — self-organizing like a living system. communities.springernature.com/posts/the-fr...
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The Fractal Geometry of Innovation
Why are some cities more innovative than others? Mapping more than a century of U.S. patents, our npj Complexity study reveals fractal and scaling patterns in innovation—showing how the distribution o...
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🧬Jacob L Steenwyk @jlsteenwyk.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
9 days till registration closes! bsky.app/profile/jlst...
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Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Los equipos de @rosafernandez.bsky.social del @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social y de @amrojasm.bsky.social del #CABD han desarrollado #FANTASIA, una herramienta basada en #IA que es capaz de predecir funciones desconocidas de cualquier proteína.
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Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (IBE) @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
📣Una herramienta basada en IA es capaz de predecir funciones desconocidas de cualquier proteína 📕 Un estudio del @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social y el @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social ha revelado la función de 24 millones de genes codificantes para proteínas en animales.🧵 👉https://shorturl.at/O1x3m
Ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi. Credit: Bruno C. Vellutini. CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.
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Rosa Fernández @rosafernandez.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Join us in Cesky Krumlov for this amazing workshop! Applications close in two weeks! 👇👇👇
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🧬Jacob L Steenwyk @jlsteenwyk.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
CC @tonigabaldon.bsky.social, @rokaslab.bsky.social, @rosafernandez.bsky.social, @trayc7.bsky.social, Claudia Solis-Lemus, Bastien Boussau, @nclark.bsky.social, Kay Lucek, Tap Pupko, Ana Rojas, Frederik Ronquist & Ania Karnkowska
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🧬Jacob L Steenwyk @jlsteenwyk.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
So many AMAZING instructors/organizers will be participating, including @tonigabaldon.bsky.social, @rokaslab.bsky.social, @rosafernandez.bsky.social, @trayc7.bsky.social, Claudia Solis-Lemus, Bastien Boussau, @nclark.bsky.social, Kay Lucek, Tap Pupko, Ana Rojas, Frederik Ronquist & Ania Karnkowska
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Christophe Dessimoz @dessimoz.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Our lab has published a couple of major papers in the past few months, which I would like to highlight in this thread! 🧵
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Camille Berthelot @camilleberthelot.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
We are hiring a ✨ bioinformatics PhD student ✨ for fall 2026 as part of the @evomg-dn.bsky.social MSCA doctoral network! Our project in a nutshell: can the evolution of gene expression in the uterus point us towards which genes are important for human uterine diseases? To apply 👉 www.evomg-dn.eu
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Rob Waterhouse @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Now with @rosafernandez.bsky.social at @atlasea.bsky.social meeting in @mnhn.fr #Paris
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Rosa Fernández @rosafernandez.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Interested in phylogenomics and genome evolution? Join us in Cesky Krumlov next January! The list of topics and faculty is simply spectacular! 🧬🪾🧬🪲🦞🦐🌿🌾🦠🧫
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Rosa Fernández @rosafernandez.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
How did animals repeatedly conquer land? 🌊➡️⛰️ We analysed ~1,000 gene repertoires (24M genes!) from all animal phyla to uncover how this happened. Work led by @gemmaeling.bsky.social & Klara Eleftheriadi, both first coauthors of this titanic effort! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Independent genomic trajectories shape adaptation to life on land across animal lineages
How animals repeatedly adapted to life on land is a central question in evolutionary biology. While terrestrialisation occurred independently across animal phyla, it remains unclear whether shared gen...
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ERGA - European Reference Genome Atlas @ergabiodiv.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
#ERGAReads | Clitellates - terrestrial & freshwater annelids - underwent dramatic #genome reshuffling, losing synteny with their marine relatives. This rare burst of genomic change reshaped chromosome structure in the group 🔗 rdcu.be/euNbT #genomics #evolution #Annelida @rosafernandez.bsky.social
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Rosa Fernández @rosafernandez.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
FANTASIA's paper is finally out! Check it out if you're interested in alternative methods to homology for functional annotation in nonmodel organisms 🦐🐙🪱🧬🐝🪲 @gemmaeling.bsky.social @amrojasm.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social @csic.es www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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FANTASIA leverages language models to decode the functional dark proteome across the animal tree of life
Communications Biology - FANTASIA, a protein language model-based tool, enables large-scale functional annotation across ~1000 animal proteomes, revealing novel gene functions in both model and...
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Trends in Genetics @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
"Breaking bad: when clitellate genomes go rogue" by Rosa Fernández (@rosafernandez.bsky.social) & colleagues "Clitellate genomes are the result of a profound genome reshaping...What triggered such extreme rearrangements...?" FREE till Aug. 24th at this link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lNmQcQbJF...
Figure 1. From conserved macrosynteny to genome atomization in clitellates.
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Rosa Fernández @rosafernandez.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
If you enjoyed our recent paper on massive genomic rearrangements in clitellates, don't miss our recent review on the topic, where we discuss some hypothesis and implications of our findings 👇🪱🧬💥👇 @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/a/1lNmQcQbJF...
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Academia Joven de España @academiajoven.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Hoy es la entrega de los #PNI y desde la @academiajoven.bsky.social queremos felicitar a toda la gente premiada, en especial a las #AcadémicasJóvenes: Cristina Blanco Víctor Vilarrasa @veronicabolon.bsky.social @mariaescesc.bsky.social @bpelaz1.bsky.social @rosafernandez.bsky.social
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Rosa Fernández @rosafernandez.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Glad to see this paper finally out! An episodic burst of massive genomic rearrangements and the origin of non-marine annelids @natecoevo.nature.com @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @csic.es @erc.europa.eu www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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An episodic burst of massive genomic rearrangements and the origin of non-marine annelids - Nature Ecology & Evolution
An analysis of annelid genomes reveals massive reshuffling of chromosomes in the ancestral lineage leading to clitellates, a clade composed of non-marine annelids, with potential implications for the ...
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CSIC @csic.es · 18/06/2025
🐛Las lombrices de tierra revelan un mecanismo evolutivo que desafiaría a #Darwin 🧬El @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social muestra cómo los gusanos de mar rompieron su genoma para reconstruirlo de forma radicalmente distinta cuando pisaron la tierra hace 200 millones de años 👉 shorturl.at/Q0nTc
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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Punctuated Equilibria gain the momentum! 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology #EvoBio
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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
A new paper in Nature Ecol & Evol by @rosafernandez.bsky.social et al. shows a #punctuated burst of genome evolution in #annelids as they transitioned from marine to land and freshwater habitats.
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Sergi Valverde @svalver.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Can the structure of knowledge evolve like life itself? In our new MBE paper, we show that the Gene Ontology evolves through mechanisms shared with cultural and technological systems—reuse, modularity, and curator-driven restructuring. Here’s what we found: 🧵
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Rosa Fernández @rosafernandez.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Happy #BiodiversityDay! What a pleasure to enjoy a symposium in Mallorca on this topic jointly organised by the Balear Center of Biodiversity and @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social. Cheers to all living forms!! 🧬🪱🐙🌽☘️🌵🐦🦠
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Rosa Fernández @rosafernandez.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The afternoon session of today is dedicated to TE annotation & deep learning-based genome annotation, again with the amazing @bombarelya.bsky.social
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Rosa Fernández @rosafernandez.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The 4th day of our workshop starts with a super interesting session on OMAnnotator with @whynevers.bsky.social on how to use orthologous groups to make better gene sets for genome annotation 🧬🧩🕵️ @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social
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Rosa Fernández @rosafernandez.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
The afternoon session of our workshop is dedicated to functional annotation & language models, with the great @amrojasm.bsky.social. She will guide us through the theory behind them and we'll talk about our recently-developed tool to explore the dark proteome: FANTASIA! ✨ @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social
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Rosa Fernández @rosafernandez.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
The morning session of our workshop on genome annotation is dedicated to long reads, and we couldn't have better faculty! Many thanks @anaconesa.bsky.social and Pablo Atienza for guiding us through it! @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social
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Rosa Fernández @rosafernandez.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Second day of our workshop @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social learning about genome annotation with BRAKER, TSEBRA, GALBA, Tiberius & more with the one and only @katharinahoff.bsky.social! 🧬🧩🪱
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Rosa Fernández @rosafernandez.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
The first day of our Workshop on Genome Annotation @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social was great! We had @bombarelya.bsky.social giving a primer on genome assembly to get started. Looking forward to zooming in into annotation itself tomorrow! 🪱🐦🧬🧩🌵☘️🌽
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Academia Joven de España @academiajoven.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
ERC Workshop: Life Sciences María Casanova Acebes y @rosafernandez.bsky.social nos contarán su experiencia con la solicitud de las ayudas del @erc.europa.eu uropa.eu. 📅 3 de junio ⌚ 9:30 📍 Online Más información e inscripción en academiajoven.es
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Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (IBE) @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
🔊 We're Hiring! 🔊 The #IBE seeks a Post-award Research Project Manager - European Projects. 🌍 📄 Full-time | 🕒 2-year renewable contract 📆 Apply by: 4th May Explore all our #JobOffers & #JoinOurTeam 👉 www.ibe.upf-csic.es/work-with-us/jo…
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_AlexBowles @alexmcbowles.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Join @jameswclark.bsky.social and I at #ESEB2025 to discuss the latest research on 'Reductive evolution across the tree of life' - Symposium 32. We have two exciting invited speakers @rosafernandez.bsky.social and #SvenGould - looking forward to welcoming you in Barcelona @eseb2025.bsky.social
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ESEB 2025 Congress @eseb2025.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
📢This is your chance to showcase your research and contribute to one of the most prestigious events in #EvolutionaryBiology🌍​ 📝 Select from 51 approved symposia to submit your #Abstract: eseb2025.com/list-of-symp... ​ 📩 Submit Now: eseb2025.com/call-for-abs...
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