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Lisa Pokorny

@calyptrochaeta.bsky.social

Ramón y Cajal Researcher @ Real Jardín Botánico (RJB-CSIC) | Earlier @ IBB (CSIC-CMCNB), CBGP (UPM-INIA/CSIC) & Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew | Duke University & UAM alumna | #Biogeography #Evolution #Phylogenomics #Plants #Systematics

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Science Magazine@science.org · 8mo ago

Long before flowers dazzled pollinators with brilliant colors and sweet scents, ancient plants used another feature to signal insects: heat. The findings in Science offer insights into what shaped the earliest eras of plant-animal coevolution. Read more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/4rVtArQ

Cycad plants use thermogenesis to warm their reproductive cones. A beetle dusted with pollen and fluorescent dyes lands on the warm cone of a cycad. High concentrations of dye have been deposited on the cone’s hottest regions during previous visits by other labeled beetles. Beetle pollinators use these thermal infrared patterns as a guide to locate host pollen and ovulate cones.
Nature@nature.com · 9mo ago

Nature research paper: Convergent genome evolution shaped the emergence of terrestrial animals go.nature.com/4i0i61w

Convergent genome evolution shaped the emergence of terrestrial animals - Nature

Comparisons of 154 genomes from 21 animal phyla and outgroups have been used to reconstruct ancestral adaptation to life on land across 11 distinct terrestrialization events, revealing strong evidence for convergent genomic evolution across the animal kingdom and recurring periods of terrestrial colonization.

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Ana Serra Silva@anaserrasilva.bsky.social · 11mo ago

If you're interested in understanding discordance in phylogenomic analyses, the @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social's special issue 'Phylogenomic Discordance: Patterns, Processes, and Solutions' is for you! tinyurl.com/v2eces3s I'll be sharing a few articles a week until we're through the issue! (1/n)🧪

Phylogenomic Discordance: Patterns, Processes, and Solutions

Phylogenomics, the study of evolutionary relationships using genomic data, has revolutionized our understanding of the Tree of Life. As a field, phylogenomics h

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Krista Bonfantine 🔥💧@aridideas.bsky.social · 10mo ago

"This increases the known large-scale fungal phylogenetic diversity by roughly one-third." 🧪💻🧬 Thirty novel fungal lineages: formal description based on environmental samples and DNA mycokeys.pensoft.net/articles.php... #fungi #sequencing

Thirty novel fungal lineages: formal description based on environmental samples and DNA

Molecular analyses of soil and water commonly reveal large proportions of fungal taxa that cannot be assigned to any taxonomic or functional groups. Some of these so-called dark taxa have been encoded...

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Fabien Burki@fburki.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We are looking for a PhD student to work on an exciting plastid endosymbiosis in microbial eukaryotes. This position involves sampling, exciting microscopy such as CARDFISH, ExM and FIBSEM, single-cell transcriptomics and more. #protistsonsky 1/2

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Coral Lab@corallab.bsky.social · 10mo ago

New Nature paper! Vaga et al. (2025) reconstruct a time-calibrated phylogeny of stony (scleractinian) corals, which suggests that some could be resilient to climate change. Congrats @claudiavaga.bsky.social Link to paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

A global coral phylogeny reveals resilience and vulnerability through deep time - Nature

The most recent common ancestor of the stony coral Scleractinia dates to about 460 million years ago and was probably a solitary, heterotrophic and free-living organism.

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Avery Russell@draverbee.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I cannot believe our work is finally out there and in @journal-evo.bsky.social ! This was an enormous group effort! We provide an updated estimate of the number of buzz pollinated angiosperm species, genera, and families, look at consequences for diversification, number of transitions, and more!

Circular phylogeny showing the branching pattern of 30k plant species with lineages with poricidal and non poricidal taxa indicated. A small subset of poricidal taxa are illustrated around the phylogeny.
Mario Vallejo-Marin@nicrodemo.bsky.social · 10mo ago

How many plant species are buzz pollinated? After more than six years in the making, our paper on the convergent evolution of buzz pollinated flowers is out in @journal-evo.bsky.social. Thanks @draverbee.bsky.social @roszenil.bsky.social and all co-authors for your hard work! doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Nature Plants@natplants.nature.com · 11mo ago

Free-to-read link @natgenet.nature.com: rdcu.be/eHzSP News & Views: "The dawn of bryophyte genomics is here" rdcu.be/eHzS2

Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants

Nature Genetics - A super-pangenome analysis incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes reveals that bryophytes exhibit a larger number of unique and lineage-specific gene families than...

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Tatsuya Nobori@tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Molecular Biology and Evolution@molbioevol.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Ji, Kapli, Flouri & @zihengyang.bsky.social assess the impact of genotyping errors in phylogenomic data on Bayesian inference of species trees, suggesting that it is better to sequence a few samples at high depths over many samples at low depths. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf184 #evobio #molbio

The Impact of Sequencing and Genotyping Errors on Bayesian Analysis of Genomic Data under the Multispecies Coalescent Model

Abstract. The multispecies coalescent (MSC) model accounts for genealogical fluctuations across the genome and provides a framework for analyzing genomic d

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Anton Suvorov@antonsuvorov.bsky.social · 12mo ago

My very first post on here. I am stoked to share lab's latest paper led by @ethantolman.bsky.social. Ethan developed a highly scalable pipeline to differentiate between various gene flow models, including ghost introgression in phylogenomic datasets. Check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

GhostParser: A highly scalable phylogenomic approach for the identification of ghost introgression

A growing body of empirical research shows that interspecific gene flow is a widespread biological force that shapes evolutionary histories across the Tree of Life. Computational approaches designed t...

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Camille Delavaux@camilledelavaux.bsky.social · last yr.

So excited that my Tansley Insight "On the role of mutualisms in plant biogeography: consequences for ecology, evolution, and invasion" is out today!! @newphyt.bsky.social

On the role of mutualisms in plant biogeography: consequences for ecology, evolution, and invasion

Most plant species world-wide depend on one or more mutualisms – beneficial associations with other species. Evidence is emerging that these biotic mutualisms shape plant biogeography (i.e. distribut....

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Cell - a Cell Press journal@cp-cell.bsky.social · last yr.

Now online! Ancient hybridization underlies tuberization and radiation of the potato lineage

Ancient hybridization underlies tuberization and radiation of the potato lineage

Genomic and functional analyses reveal that the potato lineage originated from a homoploid interspecific hybridization event between the Tomato and Etuberosum lineages 8–9 million years ago. The alternate inheritance of highly divergent parental alleles drove the origin of tubers and explosive species diversification and niche expansion into the high Andes.

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Laura Eme@lauraeme.bsky.social · last yr.

🎉 Now out “Phylogenomic analyses indicate the archaeal superphylum DPANN originated from free‑living euryarchaeal‑like ancestors” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Phylogenomic analyses indicate the archaeal superphylum DPANN originated from free-living euryarchaeal-like ancestors - Nature Microbiology

Phylogenetic reconstructions with conserved protein markers from the 11 known DPANN phyla reveal their monophyletic placement within the Euryarchaeota.

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Steven Robbins@stevenjrobbins.bsky.social · last yr.

Short-read metagenomic sequencing cannot recover genomes from many abundant marine prokaryotes due to high strain heterogeneity and platform-inherent GC bias (likely viruses, too), but Nanopore long reads can address this. A results thread on our recent preprint 🧵.

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Steven Robbins@stevenjrobbins.bsky.social · last yr.

Very excited to present the Great Barrier Reef Microbial Genomes Database (GBR-MGD), a comprehensive DB of 1000s of high-quality prokaryote, virus, plasmid, and chromosome-level eukaryote MAGs using Nanopore long reads. Subthreads incoming. Please share widely. 🙂 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Pam Engelberts@pam-engelberts.bsky.social · last yr.

Very excited to share the first paper out of my Postdoc @CMR: GenomeFISH: genome-based fluorescence in situ hybridisation for strain-level visualisation of microbial communities. @sjmcilroy.bsky.social @jamesvolmer.bsky.social @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/isme... 🧵1/7

GenomeFISH: genome-based fluorescence in situ hybridisation for strain-level visualisation of microbial communities

Abstract. Fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) is a powerful tool for visualising the spatial organisation of microbial communities. However, traditio

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