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Bacterial symbionts and the lightness of being a prokaryote
Nature Microbiology - Silvia Bulgheresi muses on how studying bacterial symbionts of worms and mammals made her question whether the absence of a nucleus enables cellular freedom, potentiating...
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My Microbes Matter essay, "Bacterial symbionts and the lightness of being a prokaryote", is in Nature Microbiology today at www.nature.com/articles/s41... (cartoon created with ChatGPT): any feedback is welcome!
Our new preprint is out! We investigate chromosome organization in obligate mammalian symbionts and show that these bacteria maintain stable chromosome orientations while displaying conserved lifestyle-associated chromosome architectures across species. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
Big thanks to the judges of the Association of American Publishers, I'm truly humbled!
In a few days Brave genomes is turning 1 and I can't believe so many libraries acquired it already: thank you all for your interest and support! ❤️ (... and ChatGPT for the png ;-) )
@philipcball.bsky.social have you seen this 😳 tiny Asgards dancing like crazy! (live microscopy recording of anaerobes, fenomenal) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Striking new study from @archaeon-alex.bsky.social's lab just out in @science.org on multicellular development induced by compression in Archaea: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Tissue-like multicellular development triggered by mechanical compression in archaea
The advent of clonal multicellularity is a critical evolutionary milestone, seen often in eukaryotes, rarely in bacteria, and only once in archaea. We show that uniaxial compression induces clonal mul...
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