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Hanbin Lee @epigenci.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
journal website version ! academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...
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Genetic prediction with ARG-powered linear algebra
Abstract. Ancestral recombination graphs (ARGs) are an attractive means for quantitative genetic analysis of complex traits because they encode the realize
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Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
A long time ago in a galaxy far away, there was a SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Our paper, led by @martibartfast.bsky.social a) correcting errors in 4.5 million genomes & their phylogeny b) improving representation of the Global South in public data www.nature.com/articles/s41... (thread 1/n)
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Addressing pandemic-wide systematic errors in the SARS-CoV-2 phylogeny - Nature Methods
This Resource paper presents a global SARS-CoV-2 phylogenetic tree of 4,471,579 high-quality genomes consistently constructed by Viridian, an efficient amplicon-aware assembler.
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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
FoldMason is out now in @science.org. It generates accurate multiple structure alignments for thousands of protein structures in seconds. Great work by Cameron L. M. Gilchrist and @milot.bsky.social. 📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌐 search.foldseek.com/foldmason 💾 github.com/steineggerla...
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Multiple protein structure alignment at scale with FoldMason
Protein structure is conserved beyond sequence, making multiple structural alignment (MSTA) essential for analyzing distantly related proteins. Computational prediction methods have vastly extended ou...
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Hanbin Lee @epigenci.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We finally submitted the earlier preprint to a journal after massive restructuring. We've expanded the REML section for those interested in the method. We clarify that ARG-LMM estimates mutational variance and not additive variance.
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Genetic prediction with ARG-powered linear algebra
Ancestral recombination graphs (ARGs) are an attractive means for quantitative genetic analysis of complex traits because they encode the realized genetic relatedness between a sample of individuals i...
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Yun Deng @yundeng.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
With @szhan.bsky.social, @yulinzhang.bsky.social, Chao Zhang and Bingjie Chen, we wrote a Perspective about unifying the tree-based method across phylogenetics, population genetics and cell biology: arxiv.org/abs/2512.05499. Reposts are greatly appreciated!
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Tree Thinking in the Genomic Era: Unifying Models Across Cells, Populations, and Species
The ongoing explosion of genome sequence data is transforming how we reconstruct and understand the histories of biological systems. Across biological scales, from individual cells to populations and ...
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Silas Tittes @silastittes.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Come one come all! Come get involved in stdpopsim and help us decide where to go from here!
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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 14/05/2025
#NatureMicroPicks Microbial integrons in focus 🦠🧬 Two studies showing microbial integrons encoding phage defense systems #MicroSky www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Mobile integrons encode phage defense systems
Integrons are bacterial genetic elements that capture, stockpile, and modulate the expression of genes encoded in integron cassettes. Mobile integrons (MIs) are borne on plasmids, acting as a vehicle ...
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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Fungi shape genome evolution of bacteria even in the absence of major growth phenotypes #ISMEJournal from @benwolfe.bsky.social Penicillium camemberti and Geotrichum candidum on Pseudomonas carnis evolution academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
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Fungi shape genome evolution of bacteria even in the absence of major growth phenotypes
Abstract. Studies of microbial interactions often emphasize interactions with large, easily measurable growth differences and short-term ecological outcome
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Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection @cmdi.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
In the phosphorus-limited Sargasso Sea, microbes partition phosphorus uptake by time of day—bacteria in the morning, phytoplankton by day, and cyanobacteria at dusk—revealing a temporal niche strategy. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Diel partitioning in microbial phosphorus acquisition in the Sargasso Sea | PNAS
The daily cycle of photosynthetic primary production at the base of marine food webs is often limited by the availability of scarce nutrients. Micr...
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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
This meeting will be great! Abstract submission open now See you 26-27 Nov in Liverpool microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...
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Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics - 2025 meeting
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Russ Corbett-Detig @russcd.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Hey! That's me! Check out my latest where I develop a method for pinpointing where mutation spectra change along phylogenies. Striking, nodes with large changes are significantly enriched for protein changes in the RdRp (catalytic domain of the polymerase) suggesting a causal role.
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plantgenomics.bsky.social @plantgenomics.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
300 billion years of angiosperm evolution at risk of extinction doi.org/10.1101/2025... Evolutionary blocks to anthocyanin accumulation in betalain-pigmented Caryophyllales doi.org/10.1101/2022... #Biodiversity #Evolution #PlantSci
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300 billion years of angiosperm evolution at risk of extinction
Extinction results in not only loss of species, but also loss of the unique evolutionary history that they represent and the irreplaceable features they exhibit. There is broad consensus regarding the...
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Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Ancestral sequence reconstruction often assumes unrealistic homogeneous substitution models; however @rmuniztrejo.bsky.social et al. find that reconstruction accuracy is determined by phylogenetic signal, not model choice. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molb... #evobio #molbio
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Robustness of Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction to Among-site and Among-lineage Evolutionary Heterogeneity
Abstract. Ancestral sequence reconstruction is typically performed using homogeneous evolutionary models, which assume that the same substitution propensit
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John Lees @johnlees.bacpop.org · 30/04/2025
Code for PopPIPE here: github.com/bacpop/PopPIPE Thanks to some thorough editing in review we ironed out some errors that can arise, made the installation simpler, and added more automated output from the transmission pipline steps
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GitHub - bacpop/PopPIPE: Population analysis PIPEline 🛠🧬
Population analysis PIPEline 🛠🧬. Contribute to bacpop/PopPIPE development by creating an account on GitHub.
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
Ancient polyploidy and low rate of chromosome loss explain the high chromosome numbers of homosporous ferns www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Ancient polyploidy and low rate of chromosome loss explain the high chromosome numbers of homosporous ferns https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.23.614530v1
A longstanding question in plant evolution is why ferns have many more chromosomes than angiosperms.
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worobey.bsky.social @worobey.bsky.social · 03/05/2024
If you're interesting in the #H5N1 outbreak in cattle in the US, please have a look at our preliminary analyses just posted. Part 1 of 2: virological.org/t/preliminar...
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Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
As Prof. Priyanga Amarasekare's heartbreaking saga at UCLA drags into another year, I've compiled a thread of articles written about the situation. My sardonic take: Some people didn't like to be accused of racism and decided to destroy her career over their hurt feelings. 1/21
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