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Andrew Alverson
@sinkingdiatom.bsky.social
diatoms - evolution - phylogenetics ; tweets are mine ; he/his
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Cool new paper by postdoc Wade Roberts. Hidden a little by the title, but we also test longstanding hypotheses about the relationship between genome size and cell size. Good stuff! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Diatom abundance in the polar oceans is predicted by genome size
Body size is a fundamental predictor of organismal abundance, and larger-bodied organisms predominate in colder areas ("Bergmann’s rule"). This study of diatoms reveals that in these unicellular organ...
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Andrew Alverson
@sinkingdiatom.bsky.social
diatoms - evolution - phylogenetics ; tweets are mine ; he/his
98 followers144 following8 posts