Can ever-increasing sequence databases improve phylogenetic reconstruction of a gene family? Our new preprint introduces AmpliPhy, a pipeline that automates homolog enrichment to improve gene tree inference, built on a robust phylogenomic benchmark scheme. 🧵1/n
📃 doi.org/10.64898/2026.01.26.701724
Gene annotations matter for downstream analyses: different structural gene-annotation pipelines yield markedly different orthology calls. We compare four strategies across species and argue for standards & QC before inference. Work led by @silviaprietob.bsky.social. Paper: doi.org/10.1093/bioi...
Happy to see my illustration featured on the cover!
Our lab has published a couple of major papers in the past few months, which I would like to highlight in this thread! 🧵
Here are all the talks I attended and sketched at #ESEB2025 ! Only a fraction of the 642 speakers at the conference 😮
I had an absolutely amazing week chatting about lots of fascinating science
#sciart #eseb #esebcongress @eseb2025.bsky.social
You can find my poster "Microsynteny and functional relatedness in eukaryotes" at the slot 209 today and visit at around 5 if you want to know more or talk anything synteny, gene order, functional association or genome evolution related :) #ESEB2025
@irenejulca.bsky.social presenting the results unveiling the functional fate of duplicates genes at #ESEB2025 !
It's been an exciting first day of #ESEB2025, with a great opening talk by Michael Lynch. Moreover, a very timely recap on lessons learnt in pines climate change adaptations by Santiago González, during a week marked by unprecedented wildfires in Spain. [Among many, many other interesting talks]
¿Has oído alguna vez hablar de los #incendios submarinos?🔥🌊
Hoy, @danigomezgras.bsky.social de
@medrecover.bsky.social nos explica las consecuencias ecológicas y el impacto de este fenómeno, cada vez más intenso y frecuente, en los corales mediterráneos 🌡️
ecomandanga.wordpress.com/2025/07/23/i...
Another consequence of the disastrous attack on NIH by Trump, Musk, and their followers
This work is partly limited by a poorly resolved phylogeny and so future work will look to revisit these results with an improved phylogenetic framework. Nonetheless, we hope our extensive literature synthesis and results will facilitate further work in this under-studied molluscan clade 🌈🐌.
Surprisingly, we found no evidence that diet choice, chemical acquisition and colour pattern evolved together.
What was the dorid ancestor like? Likely a sponge-eater 🧽 sequestering its metabolites, with a flair for fashion: showing complex colour patterns with spots or stripes ✨👗👔. This trend remains common in modern dorids (figs 1 & 3).
We compiled data on prey preference 🍔, chemical acquisition method 🧪 and colour pattern 🎨 across 88 dorid genera.
Using published sequence data, we reconstructed a phylogeny of the Doridoidei to investigate the evolution of these traits in tandem.
Image corresponding to Figure 1 in the manuscript. The colour patterns diversity in dorid nudibranchs is displayed by 25 images of different dorid species.
Nudibranchs are known for housing diverse chemical compounds and for their eye-catching colour patterns. These features are key in predator deterrence and signaling.
Check out our recent paper “Tracing the evolution of key traits in dorid nudibranchs”! 🧬🐌 dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Nudibranchs are a fascinating and diverse group of molluscs, unique and interesting systems in ecology and evolutionary biology.
@molluscular.bsky.social
Unicore is now published on GBE 🚀
Unicore rapidly identifies structural single-copy core genes from input species proteomes for phylogenetic analysis. Powered by Foldseek and ProstT5, Unicore enables linear-scale structure-based phylogeny of any given set of taxa. 🧵1/n
📃 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf109
After 6 (healthy) months of hiatus from social media, first post with a brand new conference announcement!! 🔥COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY IS EVERYWHERE! Join us in Lausanne for the first international Computational Biology Symposium! 18-19 September 2025 Registrations are OPEN! cbiosymposium.unil.ch
