JCarlos Villarreal

Fieldwork in Balsas, Darién Gap, Panamá

There is still to sign up for the class about the "hottest" bryophytes at this moment: The hornworts
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Life phases integration uncovers long‐lived gametophytes mediated reticulate evolution in Haplopteris (Pteridaceae) Accumulating evidence suggests that speciation often resembles a reticulate network rather than a bifurcating process. In ferns, which possess independent gametophyte and sporophyte phases, reticula...

@newphyt.bsky.social Love this paper nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Il y a toute une forêt sur l’écorce d’un arbre… Même en janvier, le printemps s’y cache! 🩵🤎💚🩶
#ChezMoi

Next week we will have the pleasure of hosting Dr. Tanner Robison. Tanner will be talking about carbon concentrating mechanisms and hornwort pyrenoids !
@btiscience.bsky.social @ulaval.ca @ulaval.ca
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interested in learning about hornworts? Check out the on-line hornwort class
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L'Université Laval décroche le titre de meilleur employeur au Canada Cette première place au classement Forbes est sans précédent et «est le fruit d'un travail collectif remarquable» selon la rectrice Sophie D'Amours

100% d'accord
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🛑Exciting update from our work with @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social team on the ericoid mycorrhizal symbiosis❗❗

🔥New results support a conserved three-gene module and master regulator for nutrient-responsive intracellular accommodation of fungal symbionts🤯

Check the nice thread below👇🏼
#plantscience

our hornwort paper got the cover of the @newphyt.bsky.social
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Comprehensive phylogenomic time tree of bryophytes reveals deep relationships and uncovers gene incongruences in the last 500 million years of diversification Premise Bryophytes form a major component of terrestrial plant biomass, structuring ecological communities in all biomes. Our understanding of the evolutionary history of hornworts, liverworts, and ...

Our 2023 (November) paper on Bryophyte Phylogenomics, authored by @juliabechteler.bsky.social, Gabriel Peñaloza-Bojacá and colleagues around the world, has reached the milestone of 100 citations (google scholar) in 2 years and 13,000 full-text views. bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Very nice ! Proskauer did some experiments and show a Mendelian inheritance of tubers in Phaeoceros...I think, my hornwort literature hard-drive is dusty ;) ...

Molecular and morphological insights into Phaeoceros himalayensis (Notothyladaceae) and related species: evidence for two new species from Thailand The hornwort genus Phaeoceros is morphologically diverse, particularly in sporophyte and spore characters. Among its members, P. himalayensis and P. kashyapii, two previously known species from the Hi...

beautiful Thai hornworts
phytokeys.pensoft.net/article/1729... @tarobison.bsky.social

plus de nouvelles de L'Herbier Louis-Marie :
@ulaval.ca
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Le rapport annuel de l'Herbier Louis-Marie, grace à un grand nombre d'étudiant.e.s et bénévoles. Nous remercions la Bibliothèque, et plus particulièrement Valérie Boulva. Le travail à l'herbier est principalement le fruit du travail de Kim Damboise, Nancy Martel et Annie St. Louis.

Postdoc position in Terrestrial Ecology: Terrestrial Nitroplast in Moss-Cyanobacteria Interactions

@stuartmcdaniel.bsky.social @fernway.bsky.social @jcarlosvillarreal.bsky.social @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social ...know anyone who would like to come to #Copenhagen for 2 years to work with us on the evolution of symbioses? employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...

Next week our guest speaker Dr. Lindsay McCulloch (UC Riverside) will be presenting her research: "Exploring missing pieces to our understanding of symbiotic nitrogen fixation: from ecosystems to individual plants"

Paraphymatoceros luguhuensis.

Large-scale #hornwort plastomes unlock RNA editing, new species, and diversification history.

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Xu et al.

@WileyPlantSci

Hornwort year: the pan-phylum genomes, the genomic underpinnings of the hornwort pyrenoid, the nuclear phylogeny using 234 genes and the most recent one using plastomes, led by Rui-Liang Zhu. doi.org/10.1111/nph.... ! I am glad to be part of all these collaborative papers.

a study that changes the paradigm of horizontal gene transfer across kingdoms, led by my former PhD supervisor Bernard Goffinet, congratulations to his team www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Assembly and co-occurrence networks of nitrogen-fixing bacteria associated with epiphyllous liverworts in fragmented tropical forests Abstract. Understanding the spatial dynamics of plant-associated microbial communities is increasingly urgent in the context of habitat loss and the biodiv

I am glad to share the latest paper by Adriel M. Sierra published in ISME Communications
on the "Assembly of nitrogen-fixing bacteria associated with epiphyllous liverworts in fragmented Amazonian tropical forest" doi.org/10.1093/isme...

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 vascular plants.

I am glad to be part of the largest paper on bryophyte genomics. Spearheaded by Shanshan Dong and Yang Liu ( Fairy Lake Botanical Garden) presents: "A comprehensive super-pangenome analysis, incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte nuclear genomes......"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Life of the forest. Bryophytes YouTube video by Forest Film Studio

a cute video on bryophytes www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAQ0...

Gene flow stops sooner in plants than in animals Genomic data indicate when species became reproductively isolated

The editorial : www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Rapid establishment of species barriers in plants compared with that in animals Speciation, the process by which new reproductively isolated species emerge from ancestral populations, results from the gradual accumulation of barriers to gene flow within genomes. To date, the noti...

Un groupe français dont ma collègue Christelle Fraïsse (Université de Lille) fait partie vient de publier un article très intéressant sur les barrières entre les espèces de plantes et d'animaux ! Bravo à Chris, Camille et tous les autres ! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Comment les champignons et les animaux structurent la diversité des forêts La dispersion des graines par les animaux et l’interaction avec les champignons jouent un rôle clé dans la répartition des arbres de différentes espèces dans les forêts.

@pourlascience.bsky.social . Le volume parle de la matière noire, du chromosome X inactif. L'article sur la diversité des plantes était fascinant. Notre placette en Darien fait partie de FORESTGEO et nous y ferons certainement des découvertes fascinantes. www.pourlascience.fr/sd/ecologie/...

Eurêka ! L’intuition, moteur de la créativité Pourquoi certains problèmes s’éclairent parfois soudainement ? Les neurosciences révèlent les mécanismes du « eurêka ! », et mettent en lumière le rôle crucial de l’intuition.

Quel bel article, intéressant et amusant ! @pourlascience.bsky.social www.pourlascience.fr/sd/neuroscie...

The cellular mechanics of symbiosis: sensing friend from foe

🚨 Save the date! Thrilled to be co-organizing the next iteration of the @embl.org Symposium on the Cellular Mechanics of Symbiosis (📅 March 17-20), w/ @floravincent.bsky.social, @hassansalem.bsky.social & Tom Richards.
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#EESSymbiosis #Symbiosis #SymbioSky #MicroSky 🦠

Adriel Sierra defended his PHD. He worked on the impact on fragmentation on plant population genomics and microbial diversity and 2) the relationship between plant metabolome and microbes. His work can be found shorturl.at/DZgCU. Congratulations to Adriel and the best of luck on the way forward. 🌿

so cool !!
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