Caio Leal-Dutra 🐜🍄🧬
@LealDutraCaio
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Fungus-farming ants mutualism. Cellular and molecular fungal biology and evolution. Assist. Prod. based @koebenhavns_uni 🦋 @lealdutracaio.bsky.social
Copenhagen, Denmark
Joined March 2009
🐜 🍃 🍄 🧬🦠: 🧵 In the last month, we learned that fungus-farming ants domesticated 4 fungal lineages @ScienceMagazine Mycoviruses can infect the leafcutter ants' cultivar @VirologyJ Leafcutters' fungus genome shows several signatures of domestication @MolBioEvol
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🦋🦋🦋 I'm also joining the migration to the other side If you are also there, you can find me @lealdutracaio.bsky.social
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RT @PepijnKooij: New paper! With genus-level phylogenetics we (Meilinda Sulastri, @andresauva, @EsterGaya1) merged the puffball family Lyco…
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RT @Chomicki_G: !!BREAKING NEWS!! Your dream PhD is advertised. 'Origin and evolutionary dynamics of rainforest assembly in the Fiji Isla…
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RT @CNN: Brazilian ex-President Jair Bolsonaro has been indicted over alleged knowledge of a coup plot to kill his successor and overturn t…
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RT @JEvBio: We know that leafcutter ants are clever farmers. New research from @jonathanshik, @tiemvanderdeure & @LealDutraCaio shows the f…
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RT @AlexisCompBio: Another new term we invented together with a colleague is specimen-drain: the export of valuable biodiversity, ancient D…
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RT @JEvBio: We know that leafcutter ants are clever farmers. New research from @jonathanshik, @tiemvanderdeure & @LealDutraCaio shows the f…
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RT @li_ruyan: Excited to see this out. Many thanks to all collaborators. Juvenile hormone as a key regulator for asymmetric caste differe…
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This year we celebrate 150 years of the discovery of fungus-farming ants 🐜🍄 Thomas Belt and Fritz Müller's simultaneous discoveries were communicated in @Nature by Wallace and Darwin (resp). Likewise, we remember their work in a Letter to the Editor.
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RT @Gabriel_MFA: Being in Jyväskylä was an important part of my life. Is there a better way to honour the city than with a virus named afte…
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We also presented the first high-quality genome of the Leafcutters cultivar. The previous assemblies had tens of thousands contigs, our assembly went down to 39 chromosome-level contigs. We show genetic changes during the transitions of the domestication.
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RT @EurekAlert: After the meteor impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, an environment benefitting creatures that fed on…
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