ISEPNew #ISEPpapers! CSI-SSU: phylogenetic contamination screening of genomic datasets, demonstrated on The #Protist 10,000 #Genomes (P10K) Project https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-026-12977-4
New #ISEPpapers by Anna Karnkowska et al.! Living together: evolutionary and ecological dimensions of #protist endosymbiosis https://academic.oup.com/microlife/article/doi/10.1093/femsml/uqag013/8607828
"Despite advances, key questions remain: How widespread and ecologically impactful are protist endosymbioses? What functions do #symbionts provide, and how do associations form, persist, or break down?"
New #ISEPpapers! Nucleomorph phylogenomics suggests a deep and ancient origin of cryptophyte plastids within Rhodophyta https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.71116 by @animalculum et al.
#Protist #Algae #Microbes #Evolution #Nucleomorph #Genomics #Rhodophyta #Plastids
Mx VerdaNew slogan I need on every billboard, podcast ad, cereal box, news ticker, etc:
> "Symptom management" is lifesaving for disabled people. You do not understand.
#spoonie #disability #MassDisablingEvent #tired #sick #illness #unwell #disease #infectious #pathogen #virus #bacteria #fungus #protozoa #protist #hyphae #yeast #microbiome #microbiota #microorganisms #YouAreAColony #YouAreACity
Iñaki Ruiz-TrilloIf we find a novel organism branching between protists and animals, is it a #protist or an #animal? 🤔
We here suggest that if it has 3 cell types, a polarized outer layer, a feeding opening, and responsive behavior, then it is an animal! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A smartphone analogy to explor...
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A smartphone analogy to explore the origin of animals - The EMBO Journal
How animals evolved from their unicellular ancestor is a fundamental biological question. The fact that all animals are monophyletic—sharing a single common ancestor—implies their origin from unicellular eukaryotes was likely driven by rare and highly advantageous innovations. While the fossil record and initial genomic comparisons suggested animals originated by the rapid acquisition of many novel genes, new research on animal’s closest unicellular relatives reveals most of those genes originated before animals evolved. Here we present a new model for animal origins, which shares similarities with the origin of one of the greatest technological innovations of our time: the smartphone. We show that the origin of both animals and smartphones was due to the integration and repurposing of pre-existing components driven by a novel “operating system”, rather than the sudden emergence of many new parts. This model offers testable predictions and a new theoretical framework for understanding complex biological innovation.
NIOO-KNAWNew publication: #Biofertilizer induces #soil #disease suppression by activating #pathogen suppressive #protist taxa.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41522-025-00897-2
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41522-025-00897-2
New publication: #Protist size-dependent shifts of bacterial #communities can reduce litter #decomposition. #bacteria
https://doi.org/10.1093/ismeco/ycaf231
https://doi.org/10.1093/ismeco/ycaf231
MPI for Marine Microbiology🦠 New #symbionts in #wastewater: #denitrifying #protist #endosymbionts are found in #sewage plants all over the world. One common species releases #nitrousoxide.
Our now
@ISMEmicrobes
mpi-bremen.de/en/Page6579.html
Discovery of rare #protist reveals previously unknown branch of eukaryotic tree of life https://phys.org/news/2025-11-discovery-rare-protist-reveals-previously.html
New #ISEPpapers: Rare microbial relict sheds light on an ancient eukaryotic supergroup https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09750-0
#Protists #Microbes #Evolution #Eukaryotes #TreeOfLife #NewSpecies
New #ISEPpapers! Towards a trait-based framework for protist ecology and evolution: Mahwash Jamy et al. https://www.cell.com/trends/microbiology/fulltext/S0966-842X(25)00251-3
"Recently developed environment- and taxon-specific trait databases are a strong foundation for studies of #protist functional diversity, but efforts remain fragmented... a unified trait database for #protists is timely, achievable, and would catalyze transformative research on their #biodiversity, #ecology and #evolution."