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New paper first authored by undergraduate intern Rebecca Salas! University of Guam 🥳🥳🥳 Together we examined the relationship between light and the highly plastic traits of the upside-down jellyfish. 🪼🪼🪼 doi.org/10.1016/j.jemb…

🚨 New paper out about the uptake of coral probiotics by sponges! Check it out nature.com/articles/s4152… #sponge #coral #probiotics Alessandro Garritano Raquel Peixoto Nathalia Delgadillo Ordoñez Inês Raimundo Helena Villela Marine Microbiomes Lab

High accuracy meets high throughput for near full-length 16S ribosomal RNA amplicon sequencing on the #Nanopore platform #microbiome academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/arti…

PSA: pre-print of Symbiodiniaceae chapter for the upcoming coral microbiome book; was super fun to write w/ John Parkinson & Raquel Peixoto ; I find this very accessible & hopefully fun to read, have a look & stay tuned for the upcoming book doi.org/10.31219/osf.i… Universität Konstanz

For aquatic eDNA enthusiasts, here’s an interesting and useful review of the last 10 years in the field by Takahashi et al. (2023), covering 407 articles and including 522 single-species primers and 141 metabarcoding primers. This could be a good article to read if you want:

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If you're in the eDNA/metabarcoding/FAIR data practices world, or have interest in it, check out our new paper! #eDNA #FAIRdata #MarineScience The MIEM guidelines: Minimum information for reporting of environmental metabarcoding data doi.org/10.3897/mbmg.8… via MBMG Journal

Two resources to learn bioinformatics yourself: 1. Path to a free self-taught education in Bioinformatics! github.com/ossu/bioinform… #bioinformatics

Since 2016, the Coral Trait Database (coraltraits.org) has contributed to the advancement of coral reef science. However, data on #octocorals —key components of coral ecosystems— was missing... until NOW!🎉 The Octocoral Trait Database is here!👇 rdcu.be/d6qpy

Interested in comparing costs, sequence success, and sequence quality of different sequencing platforms? Here’s an interesting comparison of Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) sequencing and PacBio sequencing, using Sanger sequencing as a reference, by Cuber et al. (2023). 👇

Our eDNA/'omics lab at NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in Miami is hiring a lab manager. Come join our team! careers.miami.edu/us/en/job/R100…

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Setting new boundaries of 16S rRNA gene identity for prokaryotic taxonomy biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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Check out the just-released Springer Book "Coral Reef Microbiome" with editors @chrisvoolstra and Raquel Peixoto and with the participation of several @mmslab members. Read more at: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

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Reconstructing the dynamics of past coral endosymbiotic algae communities using coral ancient DNA (coraDNA) #corals #symbiosis #microbiome link.springer.com/article/10.100…

eDNAjoint: An R package for interpreting paired or semi-paired environmental DNA and traditional survey data in a Bayesian framework #eDNA #environmentalDNA doi.org/10.1111/2041-2…

New preprint alert: we present a new PASSIVE air #eDNA sampler that outperforms two commonly used active samplers. Our passive approach detected species up to 500+meters away and showed association with species biomass biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 3D printable for a few €!!!!

Refining #microbiome diversity analysis by concatenating and integrating dual 16S rRNA amplicon reads nature.com/articles/s4152…