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Same strain, different worlds: can lab evolution predict nature? Coding mutations were highly parallel in the lab, while field evolution repeatedly targeted intergenic regions. doi.org/10.1128/mbio.01700-2… @microbomics
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I’m excited to launch Microbial Planet, a new editorial-style section of the Chase Lab website for short research dispatches on microbial ecology, evolution, environmental genomics, biogeochemistry, and microbial chemical ecology.
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The launch also re-releases two earlier essays:
- Reconstructing Microbial Life from Metagenomes: MAGs as reconstructed genomic hyp, not direct observations of organisms
- BGCs and the Evolution of Microbial Chemistry: links between molecular innovation, ecology, and evolution
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I’ll use Microbial Planet for monthly or quarterly dispatches, plus a “From the Literature” section highlighting recent papers shaping how I think about microbial ecology and evolution.
Now live on the Chase Lab website: microbomics.com/mp-dispatche…
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Density-dependent feedback and higher-order interactions enable coexistence in phage-bacteria community dynamics academic.oup.com/ismej/advan…
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#JobPost: Scripps Oceanography is hiring a tenure-track faculty position! Are you an expert in the fields of natural products chemistry, chemical ecology, pharmacology, biotechnology, and chemical and synthetic biology? Apply here: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF044…
ALT "Join Our Team" text overlayed on a photo of the sun setting at Scripps Pier
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Alexander Chase retweeted
AI is cool and all... but a new paper in @ScienceMagazine kind of figured out the origin of life?
The paper reports the discovery of a simple 45-nucleotide RNA molecule that can perfectly copy itself.
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Genome contamination may lead to an overestimation of horizontal gene transfer inferences | Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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On the biological meaning of the population pangenome: Trends in Microbiology cell.com/trends/microbiology…
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How Microbial Fossils Illuminate Life’s Origins asm.org/articles/2026/januar…
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Be sure to check out our department AGUTV next week #AGU25 if you’re in NOLA!
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Impact of acetate on CO2 fixation pathways in thermophilic and hydrogenotrophic bacteria academic.oup.com/ismecommun/…
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A landmark moment for @SMU!
The O’Donnell Foundation’s extraordinary commitment—one of the largest in SMU history—will launch a pioneering energy program and expand honors opportunities for top scholars. A transformational investment in Dallas - and in our future!
Read more: smu.edu/news/latest/landmark…
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🌊🌊🌊 Our PNAS paper on octocoral diterpene evolution is out - huge interdisciplinary effort led by @BurkhardtImmo @BradMoore_SIO and others @Scripps_Ocean - the first pub from our @oceanexplorer grant on the biopharmaceutical potential of the CCE 🪸🤿🧬
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Microbial iron oxide respiration coupled to sulfide oxidation | Nature nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Investigating bacterial evolution in nature with metagenomics sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Bioenergetics evolution: the link between Earth’s and Life’s history royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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Complexity myths and the misappropriation of evolutionary theory | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.24…
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Unearthing Vertical Stratified Archaeal Community and Associated Methane Metabolism in Thermokarst Sediments enviromicro-journals.onlinel…
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