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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺After 7,000 years without light and oxygen in <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/BalticSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BalticSea</a> mud, researchers bring prehistoric <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/algae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#algae</a> back to life <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-03-years-oxygen-baltic-sea-mud.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2025-03-years-oxygen-baltic-sea-mud.html</a>Resurrection of a <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/diatom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#diatom</a> after 7000 years from anoxic Baltic Sea sediment: Sarah Bolius et al. <a href="https://academic.oup.com/ismej/article/19/1/wrae252/7942337" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://academic.oup.com/ismej/article/19/1/wrae252/7942337</a>"Such deposits are like a time capsule containing valuable information about past ecosystems and the inhabiting biological communities, their population development and genetic changes"<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Protists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Protists</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Diatoms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Diatoms</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Microbes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Microbes</a>

ISEP<a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/ISEPpapers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ISEPpapers</a> 26: October 2024 to March 2025 <a href="https://www.isep-protists.com/post/iseppapers-26" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.isep-protists.com/post/iseppapers-26</a>Your twenty-sixth digest of papers and preprints published by members of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology is here!<a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Protists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Protists</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Algae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Algae</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Microbes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Microbes</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Evolution</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bacteria</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Archaea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Archaea</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Symbiosis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Symbiosis</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Parasites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Parasites</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/TreeOfLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TreeOfLife</a>

GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ 🇺🇦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 <a href="https://mastodon.social/@grrlscientist" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@grrlscientist</a> via <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Substack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Substack</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gophers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gophers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MountStHelens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MountStHelens</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fungi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fungi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/microbes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microbes</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/microbiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microbiology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SciComm</a> <a href="https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/the-secret-magic-of-gophers-to-help" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/the-secret-magic-of-gophers-to-help</a>

ISEPNew <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/ISEPpapers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ISEPpapers</a>! Hijacking and integration of algal <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/plastids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#plastids</a> and <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/mitochondria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mitochondria</a> in a polar planktonic host: Ananya Kedige Rao et al. <a href="https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00392-6" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00392-6</a>"Hosts steal active plastids, mitochondria, and nuclei from the microalga <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Phaeocystis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Phaeocystis</a>... Stolen plastids increase in volume, and their photosynthetic activity is boosted... Stolen mitochondria transform into a network in close association with plastids"<a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Microbes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Microbes</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Algae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Algae</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Protists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Protists</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Symbiosis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Symbiosis</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Organelles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Organelles</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Plankton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Plankton</a>

Danny (he/they)If anybody is in <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Tokyo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tokyo</a> and would like to hear about some of my work in <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/scicomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scicomm</a> and <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#community</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biology</a> that is to say: expanding the BioArtBot palette with place-based <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/microbes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microbes</a>; please drop by the BioClub on Monday evening <a href="https://bioclub.tokyo/en/events/bioartbot" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bioclub.tokyo/en/events/bioartbot</a>

Frank AylwardVideo and article from our lab about our latest giant virus paper "Researchers discover large dormant virus can be reactivated in model green alga"<a href="https://news.vt.edu/articles/2025/04/researchers-discover-large-dormant-virus-can-be-reactivated-in-m.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://news.vt.edu/articles/2025/04/researchers-discover-large-dormant-virus-can-be-reactivated-in-m.html</a>And link to original paper <a href="https://www.science.org/stoken/author-tokens/ST-2552/full" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.science.org/stoken/author-tokens/ST-2552/full</a><a href="https://genomic.social/tags/viruses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#viruses</a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/virology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#virology</a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/microbes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microbes</a>

Paul Houle🐙 Engineered yeast boosts D-lactic acid production, advancing eco-friendly biomanufacturing<a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-03-yeast-boosts-d-lactic-acid.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2025-03-yeast-boosts-d-lactic-acid.html</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/microbes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microbes</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/yeast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#yeast</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fermentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fermentation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chemistry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/manufacturing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#manufacturing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biotech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biotech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/molbio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#molbio</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gmo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gmo</a>

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Pink snow tints the edges of Antarctica <a href="https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-03-24/pink-snow-tints-the-edges-of-antarctica.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-03-24/pink-snow-tints-the-edges-of-antarctica.html</a>"The <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/algae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#algae</a> that covers Mount Reina Sofía in patches is Sanguina nivaloides, a species first described in 2019. The meaning of its scientific name in Latin is eloquent: blood in the snow. Each creature has a single cell, about 20 thousandths of a millimeter in size, with a molecule inside that gives it its characteristic red color: <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/astaxanthin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astaxanthin</a>... the same pigment that produces the color of salmon"<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Antarctica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Antarctica</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Protists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Protists</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Microbes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Microbes</a>

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Ancient marine organism's dual-layer structure reveals both past and present ocean environments <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-02-ancient-marine-dual-layer-reveals.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2025-02-ancient-marine-dual-layer-reveals.html</a>A cosmopolitan calcifying benthic <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/foraminifera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#foraminifera</a> in agglutinated disguise as a geochemical recorder of coastal environments <a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2413054122" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2413054122</a> "This species has a remarkable hidden feature—an inner shell made of calcium carbonate beneath its outer layer of gathered particles... [this] made them an excellent recorder of environmental conditions."<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Protists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Protists</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Microbes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Microbes</a>

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Earth's Underworld Is Full of Life <a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/earths-underworld-is-full-of-life-and-it-goes-deeper-than-we-ever-knew" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.sciencealert.com/earths-underworld-is-full-of-life-and-it-goes-deeper-than-we-ever-knew</a>A global comparison of surface and subsurface microbiomes reveals large-scale biodiversity gradients, and a marine-terrestrial divide <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adq0645" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adq0645</a>"In an ambitious 8-year census, a team has found an astonishing diversity of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/microbes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microbes</a> living beneath our planet's surface, deeper than anything we've discovered prior... it has turned up lifeforms as deep as 491m below the ocean floor, and even further below land: 4,375m deep"

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Mapping <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Antarctica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Antarctica</a>'s hidden ice-free lands: A blueprint for conservation <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-01-antarctica-hidden-ice-free-blueprint.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2025-01-antarctica-hidden-ice-free-blueprint.html</a> paper: <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-04424-y" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-04424-y</a>"The ice-free lands are home to uniquely adapted flora including micro-forests of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/lichens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lichens</a>, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/moss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moss</a>, and two flowering plants, Antarctic hairgrass and pearlwort. They also sustain a variety of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/mites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mites</a>, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/springtails" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#springtails</a>, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/tardigrades" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tardigrades</a>, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/nematodes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nematodes</a>, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/algae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#algae</a>, and <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/microbes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microbes</a>. <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Seabirds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Seabirds</a> have established breeding colonies in these areas too."

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺How tiny algae shaped the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evolution</a> of giant clams <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-01-tiny-algae-evolution-giant-clams.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2025-01-tiny-algae-evolution-giant-clams.html</a> <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-07423-8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-07423-8</a>"T. maxima have evolved more genes for sensors to distinguish friendly <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/algae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#algae</a> from harmful <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bacteria</a>, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/viruses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#viruses</a>... it has tuned down some of its immune genes in a way that likely helps the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#animals</a> tolerate <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/microbes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microbes</a>... As a result of the weakened <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ImmuneSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ImmuneSystem</a>, its genome contains a large number of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/TransposableElements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TransposableElements</a> left behind by viruses. These aspects highlight the tradeoffs of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/symbiosis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#symbiosis</a>"

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Newly discovered <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/microbes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microbes</a> in Amazon peatlands could affect global carbon balance <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-01-newly-microbes-amazon-peatlands-affect.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2025-01-newly-microbes-amazon-peatlands-affect.html</a>Functional insights of novel <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Bathyarchaeia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bathyarchaeia</a> reveal metabolic versatility in their role in peatlands of the Peruvian Amazon <a href="https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.00387-24" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.00387-24</a>"Under stable conditions, they enable <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/peatlands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#peatlands</a> to act as vast carbon reservoirs, reducing <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climate</a> risks. However, environmental shifts, including drought and warming, can trigger their activity, accelerating <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a>." <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Archaea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Archaea</a>

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Microbes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Microbes</a> and <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/minerals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#minerals</a>: How microorganisms accelerate calcification <a href="https://www.marum.de/en/Microbes-and-minerals.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.marum.de/en/Microbes-and-minerals.html</a>Marine <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/CarbonBurial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CarbonBurial</a> enhanced by microbial carbonate formation at hydrocarbon seeps <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01960-0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01960-0</a>"<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Methane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Methane</a> and other hydrocarbons are released from the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ocean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ocean</a> floor at so-called cold seeps, forming the basis for ecosystems independent of sunlight. The basic process is methane oxidation without oxygen, which is carried out jointly by <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/archaea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#archaea</a> and <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bacteria</a>."

CelloMom On Cars"The new research shows these <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/microbes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microbes</a> have a dual role in the carbon cycle and the potential to either moderate or intensify <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a>. This process can either stabilize carbon for long-term storage or release it into the atmosphere as greenhouse gases, particularly CO2 and methane.Under stable conditions, these microbes enable <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/peatlands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#peatlands</a> to act as vast carbon reservoirs, sequestering carbon and reducing climate risks."<a href="https://www.miragenews.com/unique-microbes-found-in-amazon-peatlands-1396840/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.miragenews.com/unique-microbes-found-in-amazon-peatlands-1396840/</a>

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Our last <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/commonancestor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#commonancestor</a> lived 4.2 billion years ago—perhaps hundreds of millions of years earlier than thought <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Genomes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Genomes</a> of diverse <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/microbes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microbes</a> point to early <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evolution</a> of a rudimentary <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/immunesystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immunesystem</a> The last ancestor shared by all living organisms was a microbe that lived 4.2 billion years ago, had a fairly large <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/genome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#genome</a> encoding some 2600 proteins, enjoyed a diet of hydrogen gas and carbon dioxide, and harbored a rudimentary immune system for fighting off viral invaders. <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/our-last-common-ancestor-lived-4-2-billion-years-ago-perhaps-hundreds-millions-years" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.science.org/content/article/our-last-common-ancestor-lived-4-2-billion-years-ago-perhaps-hundreds-millions-years</a>

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺An abundant <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/phytoplankton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#phytoplankton</a> feeds a global network of marine microbes <a href="https://news.mit.edu/2025/abundant-phytoplankton-feeds-marine-microbe-global-network-0103" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://news.mit.edu/2025/abundant-phytoplankton-feeds-marine-microbe-global-network-0103</a> paper: <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adp1949" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adp1949</a>"<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Prochlorococcus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Prochlorococcus</a> shed DNA building blocks into their surroundings, where they are then taken up by other ocean organisms, either as nutrients, energy, or for regulating metabolism... this cross-feeding occurs on a regular cycle: Prochlorococcus tend to shed their molecular baggage at night, when enterprising <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/microbes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microbes</a> quickly consume the cast-offs."

The Conversation U.S.Using digital blueprints, a computational biologist explains how <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/microbes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microbes</a> could colonize space, produce drugs, and generate energy—highlighting how these models could shape the future of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/biotechnology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biotechnology</a>, <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#medicine</a>, and <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#space</a> exploration. <a href="https://theconversation.com/microbes-can-colonize-space-produce-drugs-and-create-energy-researchers-are-simulating-their-inner-workings-to-harness-how-241131" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/microbes-can-colonize-space-produce-drugs-and-create-energy-researchers-are-simulating-their-inner-workings-to-harness-how-241131</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/genomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#genomics</a>

The Conversation U.S.Using digital blueprints, a computational biologist explains how <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/microbes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microbes</a> could colonize space, produce drugs, and generate energy—highlighting how these models could shape the future of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/biotechnology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biotechnology</a>, <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#medicine</a>, and <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#space</a> exploration. <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/genomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#genomics</a> <a href="https://theconversation.com/microbes-can-colonize-space-produce-drugs-and-create-energy-researchers-are-simulating-their-inner-workings-to-harness-how-241131" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/microbes-can-colonize-space-produce-drugs-and-create-energy-researchers-are-simulating-their-inner-workings-to-harness-how-241131</a>

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Tiny microbe colonies communicate to coordinate their behavior <a href="https://www.uib.no/en/michaelsarscentre/175104/tiny-microbe-colonies-communicate-coordinate-their-behavior" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.uib.no/en/michaelsarscentre/175104/tiny-microbe-colonies-communicate-coordinate-their-behavior</a>Electrical signaling and coordinated behavior in the closest relative of animals <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr7434" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr7434</a>"A new study reveals evidence of electrical signaling and coordinated behavior in <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/choanoflagellates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#choanoflagellates</a>, the closest living relatives of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#animals</a>. This elaborate example of cell communication offers key insights into the early <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evolution</a> of animal <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/multicellularity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#multicellularity</a> and nervous systems."<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Protists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Protists</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Microbes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Microbes</a>

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