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Emerging viruses, Virus Characterization, Arboviruses. @upcite.bsky.social
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Interesting and good work on arbovirus coinfection. However, if cell entry is a low barrier (as some have shown), Don’t we need to redefine active (co)infection as being different from just (co)occurrence of pathogens? Replication counts.

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🦠 Mpox: a better understanding of tecovirimat resistance 🔬 Scientists at the Institut Pasteur have uncovered how a viral enzyme interacts with tecovirimat. This breakthrough paves the way for new antiviral therapies. 📄 Study published in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social #Mpox #tecovirimat

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www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/defaul...

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www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-11...

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www.cell.com/med/fulltext...

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Fabulous work with colleagues in Burundi, who took up Mpox sequencing to understand the situation AND are willing to share pre-publication, shows the expanding tree, and evidence for several introductions not taking off. In progress virological.org/t/preliminar...

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Hot off the press: "Fecal microbial load is a major determinant of gut microbiome variation and a confounder for disease associations" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... See below for @suguru-nishijima.bsky.social 's thread on the preprint! #microsky #microbiome

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🦇🦠If you ever wondered about the zoonotic risk bat-associated parasites might pose and their potential role in pathogen spillover look into our new paper in @TrendsParasitol www.cell.com/trends/paras... 🕷️📷: @NikolaRahme 🦇🪰📷: @tszentivanyi

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"Compressing long-term gene evolution to laboratory time spans at scale ... would enable the systematic detection of additional structural and functional demands governing biology...& principles by which gene diversity was generated in the first place." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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A metagenomic catalogue of the ruminant gut archaeome www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

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After editing, this very short letter to New Scientist is even shorter now. But I think it gets the point across! @faecalmatters.bsky.social

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The perfect conclusion to a criticism doesn’t exi…

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Dear fellow microbiologists, have you ever successfully pooled 16S and ITS amplicons in the same library to be sequenced together? Any tips to share? Thanks! 🧪🦠🧬

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Here is something to distract you from the gloom: What can metagenomics tell us about the taxonomic composition of lichen symbioses? A peer-reviewed version of our analysis of >400 lichen metagenomes from around the world is now out in @PLOSBiology 1/12 doi.org/10.1371/jour... 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🦠 🧫 #SymbioSky

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EVEscape - predicting emergence of new viral escape lineages: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #VGEB24

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Post peer review: Work we did in Yunnan Province China during the SARS-CoV2 pandemic. Myotis laniger is a potential host for SARSr-CoVs www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Yes! Contaminating genes in metagenomics may independently correlate with your target pathogen load. Food for thought

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Intragenomic conflicts with plasmids and chromosomal mobile genetic elements drive the evolution of natural transformation within species (PLOS Biology) from @epcrocha.bsky.social and colleagues journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... Great paper looking at phyologenetics+genetics of transformation

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“…that if he had a gallon of urine and put a shot glass of wine into it, he still had a gallon of urine. On the other hand, if he had a gallon of wine and put a shot glass of urine into that, he now had a second gallon of urine” This should be a guiding tenet for all journals if you ask me.

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Complete genomes of Asgard archaea reveal diverse integrated and mobile genetic elements - out today in Genome Research from @luisvalentin.bsky.social @archaeal.bsky.social @valdeanda.bsky.social A look at (a) MGEs, (b) methylation, (c) defense systems in Asgards genome.cshlp.org/content/earl...

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