#gbdraw v0.12.1 is now live with a massive update! Powerful new features are now available in your local environment: ​You can now generate circular comparisons (homology rings) and interactive SVG files directly on your machine 🧬 #bioinformatics #genomics

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La recherche française déstabilisée par une crise multiforme

Affaiblissement financier et humain, montée des attaques idéologiques, émergence de l’intelligence artificielle… La communauté scientifique est confrontée à de nombreux défis, à l’image du CNRS, victi...

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Wrote a short piece about the opportunities and challenges of pushing ancient pathogen genomics into a new frontier: the zooarchaeological record. Pretty excited about what is going to come. www.science.org/eprint/MSG3Z...

Tracking the roots of zoonoses

Ancient pathogen DNA from animals elucidates the origin and evolution of infectious diseases

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Our two-part analysis of the current MV Hondius Andes virus outbreak is now live, including reconstruction of the outbreak molecular clock dating of the closest known ancestors of the outbreak lineage. Part 1: outbreak sequence reconstruction and rooting virological.org/t/molecular-...

Molecular evolutionary analysis of the current MV Hondius Andes virus outbreak

Preliminary reconstruction of the current MV Hondius Andes virus outbreak sequences Note on data use This is an informal analysis of currently available consensus sequences and is not intended as a fo...

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The biggest challenge during my PhD within sedimentary ancient DNA was to figure out how to bioinformatically process several hundreds of sequenced samples. This workflow is optimised for identification of eukaryotes from metagenomic shotgun data. Let me introduce the preprint of metaJAM! 1/6

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metaJAM: a Nextflow integrated metagenomic workflow for sedimentary ancient DNA https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.05.722689v1

Measles Is Back. What Comes Next Will Be Worse. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/o...

Opinion | Measles Is Back. What Comes Next Will Be Worse.

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Very excited to share our study of an ancient environmental genome extracted from lake sediment! It originates from a brown bear that lived around 9,600 years ago close to the last ice-sheet remains in northern Sweden, and has an unexpected mitochondrial haplogroup. 1/7 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Ancient environmental genome reveals a migratory brown bear individual in Early Holocene Scandinavia | PNAS

After the last ice age, species migrated into a newly deglaciated Scandinavia. Brown bear recolonization is thought to have occurred from two direc...

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🔔 New paper from the Vet Para lab @sydney.edu.au 🪱 In @commsbio.nature.com, our global analyses of 100+ heartworm genomes uncover the unexpected evolutionary history and population structure of this canine parasite 🧬🌏 Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.1038/s420... Key findings in the 🧵 below 👇

Population genomics reveals an ancient origin of heartworms in canids - Communications Biology

Genomic analyses of heartworms from multiple continents suggest a deeper evolutionary origin in canids than previously recognised, with evidence of both ancient dispersal events and more recent introd...

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Excited to share our work on #AncientRNA from alcohol-preserved lungs, recovering the oldest human RNA virus genome (an 18th-century rhinovirus). Our study shows that viral RNA remnants persist in centuries-old tissue, opening new ways to study virus evolution and historical disease #Paleovirology🫁🦠

My dear colleagues @tjorven-hinzke.bsky.social and others put together a cool manuscript on viruses in ancient penguin mummies. Pleasure to have been involved! doi.org/10.64898/202...

RNA virus genomes from centuries- to millennia-old Adelie penguin mummies

Direct studies of long-term RNA virus evolution are largely limited to chemically-fixed specimens from natural history and pathology museums collected over the past two centuries. Detecting genomic tr...

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Termite genomes shed light on the enigmatic deltaviruses, their ancient origins, and an intriguing example of co-option of viral genes by a host. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Endogenous viral elements in termite genomes reveal extensive diversity of deltaviruses and provide insights into their origins

Barreat et al. describe the discovery of deltavirus genomic fossils (ẟEVEs) in multiple species of termites. The wide expression of ẟEVEs in termites and a host gene fusion indicate that some ẟEVEs ma...

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To rehabilitate the general view of women's contributions to the history of science, the CNRS is part of a commission that aims to inscribe the names of 72 female scientists on the Eiffel Tower. 🗼 #WomenInScience

Women scientists to be showcased on the Eiffel Tower soon

To rehabilitate the general view of women's contributions to the history of science, the CNRS is part of a commission that aims to inscribe

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🧵 Exciting news from our lab #CpgSthlm! 🥳 Thousands of years ago, mammoths roamed, and so did their fascinating microbial companions. Our latest study, published in 𝘊𝘦𝘭𝘭, brings them to light 🦣🦠🧬 Read the full paper here 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

Please share this Global South survey 🙏 #ESEB2025

The viral family 𝘍𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘦 is now officially recognized by the ICTV! A perfect excuse to dive into their bizarre and fascinating partnership with parasitoid wasps, a story of evolution, genetic hijacking, insect horror and behavior manipulation. www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Summary of taxonomy changes ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) from the Animal DNA Viruses and Retroviruses Subcommittee, 2025

The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) holds a ratification vote annually after review of newly proposed taxa by ICTV Study Groups and members of the virology community. In March 20...

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New preprint 🎉! We explore the reliability of ancient DNA authentication, particularly cytosine deamination at fragment ends in metagenomic context. You can find the full results in our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Impact of Reference Genome Divergence on Ancient DNA Damage Detection in Metagenomic Contexts

The reliability of ancient DNA (aDNA) authentication depends on detecting characteristic damage patterns, particularly cytosine deamination at fragment ends. However, in ancient metagenomic studies, s...

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The FIRST International Conference on Palaeogenomics will happen in Stockholm, Sweden, June 23-26, 2026! Topics will encompass all corners of ancient DNA research, from humans to wildlife and sediments🧬🦣💀🦠 Save the dates ✅ Check the website icp2026.palaeogenomics.org and follow us for updates!

NOBEL SYMPOSIA We are delighted to announce two exciting public talks on Ancient DNA at Aula Magna (Stockholm University) on May 30th, 10:00-12:30h. 🦣⬅️ ”Can we bring back the woolly mammoth?” by Beth Shapiro. 🐎✋”The taming of the horse” by Ludovic Orlando. Free entrance. All welcome!

Our latest study uncovers a viral domestication event from ~75 million years ago, where viral genes enable parasitoid wasps to protect their eggs they lay within dipteran hosts! 🐝->🥚+🦠->🪰☠️ ->🐝🦠 Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #paleovirology #parasitoid #evolution