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Amoebozoan testate amoebae illuminate the diversity of heterotrophs and the complexity of ecosystems throughout geological time biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_evobio

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Congratulations to the newly minted Dr. Jones on his super successful PhD dissertation defense!!!

Newest article from the lab in collaboration with Matthew Brown's lab Matt Brown, in @PNAS, lead by Alfredo Leonardo Porfirio de Sousa, illuminating events from the Neoproterozoic using testate amoeba phylogenomics and fossils: pnas.org/doi/full/10.10… Funded by U.S. National Science Foundation and @FAPESP

Happy to announce our paper about the GTRpmix model and exchangeability matrices designed for use with profile mixture models for eukaryote and eukaryote+archaea data sets is published: academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-ar…

The life strategies of #parasitoids are stunningly diverse, but no wasps that attack and develop inside adult flies have ever been described. Our article describes the first one. Its hosts: Drosophila melanogaster and other species of #Drosophila #Entomology #Braconidae

Alternative agar substitutes for culturing unculturable microorganisms link.springer.com/article/10.100…

First molecular data on Pocheina (Acrasidae, Heterolobosea). This paper represents a very long journey, starting with a mistake I made as a PhD student. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

#ExM has transformed how we perceive the microbial diversity all around us. Some gorgeous critters from the EMBL Heidelberg pond - DNA red, centrin yellow, tubulin gray, images courtesy @F_Mikus. Bonus points if you can identify at least 4! Want more? biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Acrasis kona builds a multicellular fruiting body, despite being a distant relative of other multicellular eukaryotes. Here, Sheikh et al. present the amoeba's genome & developmental transcriptomes. Matt Brown Uppsala universitet Systematic Biology Programme Sandra Baldauf nature.com/articles/s4146…

The genome of Acrasis kona, my favorite organism, one of my first taxonomic descriptions, and my lab logo’s feature is finally out. Ecstatic to be a part of this important study of the only mutlicellular clade in Discoba. More to come out of the Acrasidae! Sandra Baldauf