Julian Kiefer

A long, long time ago, we started this review project during the first Coron lockdown, but if finally made it out into the world - Origin and function of beneficial bacterial symbioses in insects! @naturerevmicro.bsky.social

Are reads required? High-precision variant calling from bacterial genome assemblies Accurate nucleotide variant calling is essential in microbial genomics, particularly for outbreak tracking and phylogenetics. This study evaluates variant calls derived from genome assemblies compared...

New preprint is out!
We investigate how well you can call variants directly from genome assemblies compared to traditional read-based variant calling.

Read it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Data & code: github.com/rrwick/Are-r...
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Spannend: @jkiefer.bsky.social erzählt auf dem 5. Bremer #OceanDay über seine #Forschung und die spannende Welt der #Meeressymbiosen.
#Machmint #Meeresforschung #Wisskomm #Bremen @unibremen.bsky.social

Learned magnetic map cues and two mechanisms of magnetoreception in turtles - Nature Loggerhead sea turtles, which undergo long-distance migrations, can learn magnetic signatures associated with different geographic areas and have two different magnetic senses, each based on a different underlying mechanism.

A paper in Nature reports that the loggerhead turtle can learn and remember the magnetic signature of an area and does a ‘turtle dance’ when in a location that they associate with food. https://go.nature.com/4jSQEDo 🐢 🧪

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Symbioses and gene transfer in leaf beetles In the course of evolution, leaf beetles found the key to digesting plants better with the help of bacteria

🪲 Leaf beetles 🧬 New research reveals how these diverse insects overcome dietary challenges through symbiosis & horizontal gene transfer. #Insects #Symbiosis #EvolutionaryEcology #Symbionts @hassansalem.bsky.social [link to press release: t.ly/NRxc7 ]