Capolavoro 🎨 alert 🚨! What is the role of gene body methylation in invertebrates? Despite extensive speculation linking it to plasticity and environmental responses, its mechanistic effects and heritability remain unclear. Our take out in @natecoevo.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/

Gene body methylation suppresses intragenic transcription and permits epigenetic inheritance in a cnidarian - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Experiments in the cnidarian Nematostella vectensis show a role of gene body methylation in transposable element suppression and that epigenetic inheritance is constrained by chromatin context and tra...

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🐟 monitoring can be non-invasive. 🐟💧 = eDNA + eRNA Check out this comprehensive perspective article on how eNA can improve fisheries monitoring without harming the fish! The aim is to move beyond species detection, from estimating abundance to capturing reproductive status and lots in between.

Prospects of multipurpose biomonitoring for fisheries assessment based on environmental nucleic acids

Methods using environmental nucleic acids have become highly effective for monitoring aquatic biodiversity, with an array of suitable use cases, including metrics for fisheries assessment. Traditiona...

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1st #EvoDevOmics meeting🍊 What a terrific team @isabelalmudi.bsky.social @mirimiam.bsky.social @anariesgo.bsky.social @patrialvarezcam.bsky.social @jpascualanaya.bsky.social @phylobrain.bsky.social @fany-real.bsky.social Núria🔥 Nacho and more. What great hosts🥘 @hector-escriva.bsky.social & Steph

New observations of fascinating rock #sponges 🤩, in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea! A short note from our Greek partners highlight some of the threats rock sponges face, such as #plastic liter in the deep-sea 🙁 @biodiversa.eu link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Amazing SponBIODIV discovery 🤩 by Díaz et al. at the Museum of Evolution at Uppsala University, Sweden. We welcome the VILESIDA, an entirely new order of #sponges 🪸 @biodiversa.eu

Paco Cardenas@paccardenas.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🧵We just described Vilesida @uu.se, a new ORDER of #sponges potentially linked to the earliest known animal biomarker! 🔬🪸🪼 #MueumofEvolution doi.org/10.1093/zool... @zoojlinnsoc.bsky.social @ieo.es @ucriverside.bsky.social @sponbiodiv.bsky.social @biodiversa.eu

The Uppsala University News today talk about our new order of sponges! 🪸If you want to know more 👇

New marine sponges provide clues about animal evolution - Uppsala University

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Uppsala University was curious to see for themselves the new order of #sponges we discovered 😅

Uppsala universitet on Instagram: "(English below) Paco Cárdenas och Julio A. Díaz har hittat helt nya svampdjur, som bland annat lever utanför Spaniens kuster. Vid närmare analys upptäckte forskarna ...

112 likes, 3 comments - uppsalauniversity on December 2, 2025: "(English below) Paco Cárdenas och Julio A. Díaz har hittat helt nya svampdjur, som bland annat lever utanför Spaniens kuster. Vid närmar...

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The use of historical #collections is pivotal in the understanding of today's taxonomy and biodiversity. Our SponBIODIV partner @uu.se illustrates this with a 19th century🎩 #sponge🪸 collection from the North Atlantic 🌊. @biodiversa.eu

Paco Cardenas@paccardenas.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Particularly proud of this paper: the discovery of an unknown historical #collection of #sponge fragments from the German Oscar Schmidt (1823–1886) bringing us back to the early days of spongiology. What a treasure! 🤩 doi.org/10.1093/jhc/...

#Photogrammetry works to monitor vulnerable marine ecosystems such as deepsea #spongegrounds! A population of the iconic 'Asconema setubalense' slightly increased reveal our partners from IEO-CSIC (Gijón, Spain), despite high fishing pressure. @biodiversa.eu www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

What a great SponBIODIV kickoff meeting we had at @ciimar.bsky.social in June 2023. 🙌 to this awesome All-Atlantic & Mediterranean consortium with 10 partners +7 associate partners, and over 60 researchers! Since then the #sponge science (and fun) has never stopped 😊 . @biodiversa.eu

Can #sponges help protect the threatened coastal lagoon of the Mar Menor (SE of Spain)? 🧽 #eDNA 🧬 to monitor biological communities in shallow coastal ecosystems. 76 taxa, 9 phyla identified by Corral-Lou et al! @mncn-csic.bsky.social @biodiversa.eu onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Do microbes contribute to #sponge sexual reproduction❤️ ? A team from SponBIODIV finds significant microbial composition changes in two species between reproductive and non-reproductive sponges! Spoiler: #Archaea are important! @mncn-csic.bsky.social @biodiversa.eu journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

#Connectivity in the #deepsea! EXCELLENT study on the key sponge ground species ‘Geodia hentscheli’, shows strong genetic and microbiome structures segregated by depth. 👇 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Very nice piece about our article on how sponges collect eDNA in deep sea waters that can be used to reconstruct their ecosystem composition by Olivia Hewitt www.currentconservation.org/mysteries-of...

Mysteries of the deep sea captured by the mouth of a sponge | Current Conservation

Current Conservation Mysteries of the deep sea captured by the mouth of a sponge

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🚨Registration for the UK #EvoDevo meeting is open! Join us on July 11th in London to enjoy an exciting day of talks, posters, friends, and superb science! -Registration (only £5!): shorturl.at/9cQGL -More info: londonevodevo.ac.uk

We’ve just published the most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica’s ice sheet (called Bedmap3), and we learnt some pretty cool facts about Antarctica that you can use to impress your pals. Ready? Graphic: Hamish Pritchard et al

Spotted in Wisconsin. $10.49 for eggs. Prices keep going up and Donald Trump isn’t doing a damn thing about it!

📢 ¡Visitad 'El suelo, un paseo por la vida' 🪱 y 'Bosques complejos, nuestros aliados' 🌳 en Fresno de Cantespino y Maderuelo respectivamente. Estas exposiciones del #proyectoERA (financiado por FECYT) acercarán la #ciencia del MNCN a los habitantes de la comarca. www.mncn.csic.es/es/Comunicac...

Estáis en Madrid? Pues os animo a descubrir la exposición fotográfica de Luis Castelo: Historia Natural que estará en las salas del @mncn-csic.bsky.social hasta el 11 de mayo de 2026 mncn.csic.es/es/Comunicac...

El MNCN presenta Historia Natural, una exposición fotográfica de Luis Castelo | Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales

Se exhiben más de 40 imágenes y ejemplares, esqueletos y huevos de las colecciones de Aves, Mamíferos y Herpetología

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Black coral from @marumunibremen.bsky.social dive 110 #MarineLife

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Life in the world’s deepest seas: The challenge of finding 1,000 new marine species by 2030

A new initiative by the International Seabed Authority has set an ambitious goal, and our team is one of the first to be involved.

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An analysis of published data reveals how genetic diversity has been changing in populations of 622 terrestrial and marine species and the effectiveness of different types of intervention to boost genetic diversity https://go.nature.com/3CwUUaN

Conservation strategies aided by assessment of global genetic diversity

Assessment of how genetic diversity has been changing.

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Happy #MarineBiologistDay compadres! 🦈🪸🦑🦐🦞🦀🐙🐳🐋🐬🦭🐟🐠🐡🪼

🪸 New ERGA-BGE Case Study! Scientists from @ciimar.bsky.social are leveraging #genomics for the conservation of Mediterranean red #coral - a key species under threat from over-harvesting and rising ocean temperatures. 🌡️ www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/conserv... #genomes for #conservation

Conservation genomics of the Mediterranean red coral, Corallium rubrum: a habitat-forming octocoral threatened by overharvesting and anthropogenic climate change

Corallium rubrum is an octocoral (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) distributed in the Mediterranean Sea and in the neighboring North-Eastern Atlantic. Due to its arborescent morphology, this habitat-forming specie...

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New review: "Archaeocytes in sponges: simple cells of complicated fate." Ereskovsky, Melnikov & Lavrov propose archaeocytes as a cell type specific to the class Demospongiae. Clear homologues of archaeocytes are absent in other sponge classes? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Happy birthday, Alfred Russel Wallace, father of biogeography and co-discoverer of the theory of evolution by natural selection. In his book Darwinism (1889), he referred to the impacts of "invading" species (such as the black rat) carried by commerce and replacing native species all over the world.

Look at all those beautiful and mysterious sponges 😍

Lisa@tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 2y ago

Starting today's dive with an impressive amount of sponges. #SchmidtOcean dive 767 #IntoSouthernOcean #MarineLife

Abajo, puedes leer sobre cangrejos de río en @es.theconversation.com Y en este enlace youtu.be/C0AQsAu8F4c?... puedes ver el cangrejo del rey, un documental sobre 450 años cangrejos de río y gente en España. @ebdonana.bsky.social

Miguel Clavero@chikichanka.bsky.social · 2y ago

Primer hilo mariposón, de cangrejos de río Hemos publicado sobre estos animales en @theconversationes.bsky.social y no deja de ser una maravillosa sorpresa que los artículos los hayan leído más de 250,000 personas. Abajo va la lista, siguiendo un orden mas o menos lógico @ebdonana.bsky.social

RECRUITING PhD student to study kelp dispersal and transport from the coastal zone to the deep sea. See our website for particulars. annametaxas.com

For those feeling Christmassy🎅, here's some aglaopheniid hydroids🎄 with ascidians and corals at their base. Looks like someone in the reef will have lots of gifts 🎁 this year. #Hype4Hydrozoa