New #ISEPpaper! On the possibility of yet a third #kinetochore system in the protist phylum Euglenozoa https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/mbio.02936-24 by Corinna Benz et al.

"While #kinetoplastids have an unconventional kinetochore system and #euglenids have a canonical one similar to traditional model #eukaryotes, preliminary searches detected neither unconventional nor canonical kinetochore components in #diplonemids."

#Protists #Microbes #Evolution #CellBiology

The Secret Magic Of Gophers To Help Restore Devastated Landscapes

“A team of American scientists sought to learn whether a team of burrowing rodents could help restore Mount St Helens after her 1980 eruption.”

by @GrrlScientist via #Substack 

#gophers #MountStHelens #Fungi #microbes #microbiology #SciComm https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/the-secret-magic-of-gophers-to-help

The Secret Magic Of Gophers To Help Restore Devastated Landscapes

“A team of American scientists sought to learn whether a team of burrowing rodents could help restore Mount St Helens after her 1980 eruption.”

by @grrlscientist via #Substack 

#gophers #MountStHelens #Fungi #microbes #microbiology #SciComm https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/the-secret-magic-of-gophers-to-help

New #ISEPpaper! Where Is Cryptosporidium Population #Genomics Going Next: The Challenge and the Promise https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-70591-5_7

"Forty years have passed since species of #Cryptosporidium, single-cellular protozoan #parasites were first recognized as significant human pathogens"

#protists #microbes

The Secret Magic Of Gophers To Help Restore Devastated Landscapes

“A team of American scientists sought to learn whether a team of burrowing rodents could help restore Mount St Helens after her 1980 eruption.”

by @GrrlScientist via #Substack 

#gophers #MountStHelens #Fungi #microbes #microbiology #SciComm https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/the-secret-magic-of-gophers-to-help

New #ISEPpapers! Characterization of Allobodo yubaba sp. nov. and Novijibodo darinka gen. et sp. nov., cultivable free‐living species of the phylogenetically enigmatic kinetoplastid taxon Allobodonidae https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11771631/ by Julia Packer et al.

"#Kinetoplastids are a large and diverse #protist group, spanning ecologically important free‐living forms to medically important #parasites."

#Protists #Microbes #NewSpecies

New #ISEPpapers! Phylogenomic resolution of marine to freshwater dinoflagellate transitions https://academic.oup.com/ismej/article/19/1/wraf031/8029727 by Mahara Mtawali et al.

#protists #algae #microbes #evolution

New #ISEPpapers! Diplonemid #protists possess exotic endomembrane machinery, impacting models of membrane trafficking in modern and ancient eukaryotes https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960982225001952 by Kristína Záhonová et al., @DacksLabECB

"Heterotrophic protists possess machinery sporadically present in model organisms... LECA likely was a homogenous population with complex cell biology... General cell biological frameworks should integrate data from diverse eukaryotes"

#microbes #genomics #evolution #diplonemids

#FYI #HerbSimmens #ClimateEmergencyForum #PeterCarter #PaulBeckwith #microbes #microorganisms

How the climate breakdown influences earth's microbiome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QofeVqHdQmw

#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #climatecatastrophe #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather

New #ISEPpapers! Hijacking and integration of algal #plastids and #mitochondria in a polar planktonic host: Ananya Kedige Rao et al. https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00392-6

"Hosts steal active plastids, mitochondria, and nuclei from the microalga #Phaeocystis... Stolen plastids increase in volume, and their photosynthetic activity is boosted... Stolen mitochondria transform into a network in close association with plastids"

#Microbes #Algae #Protists #Symbiosis #Organelles #Plankton