Exploring the weird and wonderful world of red algae @MPI_Bio
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12 Feb 2025
🚨Preprint 🚨 I'm really happy to finally share our exploits in red algae and introduce the wider community to Bostrychia, the new model system we have been developing to tackle the molecular biology of red algae. Isn't she a beauty? Thread below 🧵 1/8 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Michael Borg retweeted
18 Mar 2025
New Letter: "Sporophyte-directed gametogenesis in Arabidopsis" rdcu.be/ed0V0
In flowering plants the gametophyte develops within the sporophyte. Male gametophyte development in Arabidopsis is directed by the sporophyte through repression of gametogenesis genes.
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Michael Borg retweeted
16 Mar 2025
Happy to share my PhD paper
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Great collaboration with Mike @dr_borg Nicholas and his team @BAR_PlantBio
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Our new work @MolBioEvol
How old are viruses? Here we developed a host-calibrated dating method and inferred the evolutionary timescale of #giantvirus, which have large genomes and infect various eukaryotes, incl. animals, algae, and many others.
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Michael Borg retweeted
12 Feb 2025
So needed: red algae is one of the first eukaryotic lineages to evolve #multicellularity, but genomic data is still scarce. Here a a chromosome-level genome assembly of Bostrychia moritziana is presented. The authors find a significant genome size expansion in Bostrychia compared to other red algae, largely driven by the proliferation of giant Plavaka DNA #transposons. Congrats @dr_borg @PetrollRomy and all authors! #redalgae
12 Feb 2025
🚨Preprint 🚨 I'm really happy to finally share our exploits in red algae and introduce the wider community to Bostrychia, the new model system we have been developing to tackle the molecular biology of red algae. Isn't she a beauty? Thread below 🧵 1/8 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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12 Feb 2025
🚨Preprint 🚨 I'm really happy to finally share our exploits in red algae and introduce the wider community to Bostrychia, the new model system we have been developing to tackle the molecular biology of red algae. Isn't she a beauty? Thread below 🧵 1/8 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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12 Feb 2025
The red algal transition to multicellularity is among the oldest across eukaryotes. Given the common evolutionary origin of red seaweeds and plants, we provide new insight into the evolution of complex multicellularity and highlight this fascinating but overlooked lineage. 7/8
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12 Feb 2025
I would like to thank all the co-authors involved in this work @MPI_Bio Tuebingen, @rorycraig333 and other at the @UniMelb and @UCPH_Research. And a special mention to @PetrollRomy, the PhD student who has been the driving force behind this proud body of work. 8/8
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Michael Borg retweeted
6 Nov 2024
🥳Happy 🥳to share the final version now officially published in @NatureComms
Repeat-based holocentromeres of the woodrush Luzula sylvatica reveal insights into the evolutionary transition to holocentricity
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
Awesome work from @YMata_Sucre and Marie Krátká
10 Apr 2024
🔥Thrilled to announce our recent work🔥
Repeat-based holocentromeres of the woodrush Luzula sylvatica reveal new insights into the evolutionary transition from mono- to holocentricity
Now on bioRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Congrats on great work from @YMata_Sucre @KratkaMarie
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Our new Update in @PlantPhys discusses advances in our understanding of epigenetic, transcriptional, translational & posttranslational control of hypoxic gene expression in plants 🌱 @freddietheodou1 @jnbserres
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Michael Borg retweeted
23 Oct 2024
Does the aggregation of complex multicellularity follow a universal developmental pattern across the eukaryotic tree of life?
Thrilled to announce that we found a convergently evolved transcriptomic hourglass pattern in brown algal development. @Nature
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Michael Borg retweeted
14 Oct 2024
New preprint! An atlas of conserved TF binding sites across flowering plants generated with multiplexed DAP-seq. When integrated with multi-species snRNA- and snATAC-seq reveals how TF activity shapes development and stress responses at the cellular level.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor…
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Michael Borg retweeted
8 Oct 2024
1/ Our lab’s first preprint found a wonderful journal home! 🎉
Our paper explores the role of testis-specific transcription factors in Drosophila and reveals broad functional connections between tissue-specific paralog proteins.
📝: genesdev.cshlp.org/content/e…
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Michael Borg retweeted
4 Oct 2024
Happy to see the 2nd manuscript of my thesis on bioRxiv!
We explore the subdivision of the withanolide BGC in Physalis into two sub-clusters with tissue-specific expression linked to chromatin differences. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Michael Borg retweeted
27 Sep 2024
Beetles are masters at coopting microbial genes, enzymes & metabolites.
In this @TrendsMicrobiol article, @MarlenyGarciaL1 & I review how microbes shaped one of the most successful animal radiations, thru horizontal gene transfer & symbiosis:
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