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Algal Evolution Lab @algomicro

Algal speciation & evolution lab @Science_Charles | @CharlesUniPRG

Joined October 2015
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Happy to share our new paper in @JPhycology on Synurales from Florida - adding a fresh piece to the puzzle of silica-ornamented algal diversity and evolution! One of the newly described species even made it to the cover of the issue.šŸ˜Š 1url.cz/@Florida
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In this paper, we show that photobiont diversity increases as lichens age. Interestingly, as the thallus grows, autosporine algae become more prevalent at the expense of zoosporine algae, likely because the latter play a key role in lichen establishment. 1url.cz/@Proto
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Just published! Our new study reveals how phytoplankton communities can shift dramatically within mere days - driven by grazers like Cladocera and environmental factors such as silica concentration and wind speed. doi.org/10.1111/nph.70534
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Imagine a forest where every tree vanishes overnight from a gust of wind. Or a meadow where all small birds disappear due to a hawk surge. Thatā€™s the scale of change we saw - only itā€™s underwater, invisible, and microbial. šŸ™‚
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Huge congratulations to Veronika KantnerovĆ” for winning the Best Student Presentation Award at the #ICOP2025 Congress in Seoul, Korea!ā¤ļøšŸ†Iā€™m incredibly proud of her success. You can check out her award-winning poster here if you're curious: botany.natur.cuni.cz/skaloudā€¦
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Very happy to be involved in this very interesting study on lichen symbiosis.
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We just described a novel chrysophyte genus Globulochrysis. It produces teardrop-shaped zoospores and big spherical cell packetsšŸ™ƒ. botany.natur.cuni.cz/skaloudā€¦
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We are happy to share our review paper summarizing the diversity of green algal lichen symbionts and their free-living occurrences: botany.natur.cuni.cz/skaloudā€¦
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Prof. Dr. Kenneth Dumack@KDumack
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#Paper_Alert! Did you ever wonder why there is such a large morphological diversity in #shell-bearing #amoebae and what is the #function of shells anyway? It was long assumed shells are for #defense, well let me try to convince you that their purpose is #attack! A threadšŸ§µšŸ‘‡
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Happy to share our recent publication on the rapid diversification and speciation of a free living protist. 1url.cz/AuD5l
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Genetically differentiated clusters also differed in temperature growth dynamics and DNA content, suggesting the presence of local adaptation.
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In summary, we show that diversification of protist species can be very rapid. Accordingly, the vast biodiversity of protists and other microorganisms can be explained by rapid ecological speciation despite their widespread dispersal.
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We are happy to announce the release of the Fottea special issue devoted to Chrysophytes research! fottea.czechphycology.cz/curā€¦ Three papers that we contributed are briefly described below.
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By analyzing the extent of scale deformation, we found that while in Synura the ribs play a key role in the stability of the scale, in Mallomonas they have a negligible effect on stability and apparently play a different function. 1url.cz/8uVbS
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Finally, in the third paper we resolved the phylogenetic position of the silica scale-forming genus Spiniferomonas, showing that it represents a sister lineage to the genus Chrysosphaerella. 1url.cz/AuVb0
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Congratulations to Zuzana Skvorova on receiving the Bohuslav Fott Award for the best 2022 student publication. In her paper, Zuzana showed that associations between lichen symbiotic partners are driven by partners preferenes for soil chemistry and climate. 1url.cz/zKbTe
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