Care for your fellow opisthokonts.
IMPORTANT: When transporting a giant puffball mushroom you have recently foraged, it is absolutely crucial that you ensure the mushroom is firmly strapped into the passenger seat of your car to guard against sharp braking and potential whiplash.
September 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Care for your fellow opisthokonts.
Cellularization flips the switch between multinucleate and multicellular states, and at least in opisthokonts, the group that includes animals and fungi, the toolkit + recipe are conserved.
Another fun Dudin-Dey team-up with many in both labs and EMBL core facilities pitching in
Another fun Dudin-Dey team-up with many in both labs and EMBL core facilities pitching in
A 🆕 #Ichthyosporea story
Led by@margaridaaraujo.bsky.social, in Co. @gautamdey.bsky.social & @hiralshah.bsky.social+🔥team across @embl.org & @sciencesunige.bsky.social
We finally have a look at what #microtubules are doing during #cellularization in #Sphaeroforma
▶️ tinyurl.com/MTSARC
#ProtistsOnSky
Led by@margaridaaraujo.bsky.social, in Co. @gautamdey.bsky.social & @hiralshah.bsky.social+🔥team across @embl.org & @sciencesunige.bsky.social
We finally have a look at what #microtubules are doing during #cellularization in #Sphaeroforma
▶️ tinyurl.com/MTSARC
#ProtistsOnSky
February 17, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Cellularization flips the switch between multinucleate and multicellular states, and at least in opisthokonts, the group that includes animals and fungi, the toolkit + recipe are conserved.
Another fun Dudin-Dey team-up with many in both labs and EMBL core facilities pitching in
Another fun Dudin-Dey team-up with many in both labs and EMBL core facilities pitching in
Septins underwent extensive diversification in the Opisthokonts, particularly fungi and animals where hetero-oligomer formation defines their mechanism, but this is distinct from Archaeplastida & Chromista. Amazing evolutionary story. Amazing evolutionary story. @mcmomany.bsky.social #SeptSRC
#SeptSRC Monday morning session on septin assembly kicks off with insights into septin evolution by @mcmomany.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Septins underwent extensive diversification in the Opisthokonts, particularly fungi and animals where hetero-oligomer formation defines their mechanism, but this is distinct from Archaeplastida & Chromista. Amazing evolutionary story. Amazing evolutionary story. @mcmomany.bsky.social #SeptSRC
opisthokonts say what?
March 11, 2026 at 12:49 AM
opisthokonts say what?
June 15, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Edit: non-animal eukaryote, I did end up throwing in a handful of opisthokonts (F. alba included!)
September 27, 2026 at 11:33 AM
Edit: non-animal eukaryote, I did end up throwing in a handful of opisthokonts (F. alba included!)
I think I can say that I'm a vegetarian who tries to avoid eating macroscopic opisthokonts. (There's no real escaping the microscopic ones.)
October 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I think I can say that I'm a vegetarian who tries to avoid eating macroscopic opisthokonts. (There's no real escaping the microscopic ones.)
water fleas and copepods are apparently not opisthokonts
February 21, 2026 at 3:51 AM
water fleas and copepods are apparently not opisthokonts
Discovery of a photophobic response in #Apusomonads reveals insights into Opisthokont origins phys.org/news/2026-02...
New #ISEPpapers! Photophobic response in Podomonas kaiyoae is mediated by coordination of cilia, actin filaments: Aika Shibata et al. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
#Protists
New #ISEPpapers! Photophobic response in Podomonas kaiyoae is mediated by coordination of cilia, actin filaments: Aika Shibata et al. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
#Protists
February 3, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Discovery of a photophobic response in #Apusomonads reveals insights into Opisthokont origins phys.org/news/2026-02...
New #ISEPpapers! Photophobic response in Podomonas kaiyoae is mediated by coordination of cilia, actin filaments: Aika Shibata et al. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
#Protists
New #ISEPpapers! Photophobic response in Podomonas kaiyoae is mediated by coordination of cilia, actin filaments: Aika Shibata et al. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
#Protists
NEW Publication!!😄
Phylogenomic analysis of Opisthokonta (#animals, #fungi, & relatives) reveals a largely robust #phylogeny, but uncovers orthology inference methods as a major contributor of #incongruence. This study provides a robust framework for studying the #Opisthokonts
Phylogenomic analysis of Opisthokonta (#animals, #fungi, & relatives) reveals a largely robust #phylogeny, but uncovers orthology inference methods as a major contributor of #incongruence. This study provides a robust framework for studying the #Opisthokonts
September 19, 2024 at 4:40 PM
NEW Publication!!😄
Phylogenomic analysis of Opisthokonta (#animals, #fungi, & relatives) reveals a largely robust #phylogeny, but uncovers orthology inference methods as a major contributor of #incongruence. This study provides a robust framework for studying the #Opisthokonts
Phylogenomic analysis of Opisthokonta (#animals, #fungi, & relatives) reveals a largely robust #phylogeny, but uncovers orthology inference methods as a major contributor of #incongruence. This study provides a robust framework for studying the #Opisthokonts
How do plant kinesins work at the single-molecule level?
We break it all down in our new review "Plant kinesins: a bottom-up approach - from single molecules to function" published in JXB @jxbotany.bsky.social 🎉
Check it out: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#Plant #Kinesin #SingleMolecule #ZMBP
We break it all down in our new review "Plant kinesins: a bottom-up approach - from single molecules to function" published in JXB @jxbotany.bsky.social 🎉
Check it out: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#Plant #Kinesin #SingleMolecule #ZMBP
Plant kinesins: a bottom-up approach – from single molecules to function
Abstract. During land colonisation, plants evolved new microtubule structures that have no functional analogues in opisthokonts, namely animals and fungi.
doi.org
July 14, 2026 at 9:28 AM
How do plant kinesins work at the single-molecule level?
We break it all down in our new review "Plant kinesins: a bottom-up approach - from single molecules to function" published in JXB @jxbotany.bsky.social 🎉
Check it out: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#Plant #Kinesin #SingleMolecule #ZMBP
We break it all down in our new review "Plant kinesins: a bottom-up approach - from single molecules to function" published in JXB @jxbotany.bsky.social 🎉
Check it out: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#Plant #Kinesin #SingleMolecule #ZMBP
Animals and fungi are now grouped in a clade (a group of organisms with a common ancestor) called the opisthokonts. Here is a nontechnical discussion of why the animal and fungal kingdoms are in the same clade.
Three Reasons Fungi Are Not Plants | ASM.org
Fungi are more closely related to us than they are to plants. Yet, fungi have been grouped with plants historically, with an impact felt even today.
asm.org
September 7, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Animals and fungi are now grouped in a clade (a group of organisms with a common ancestor) called the opisthokonts. Here is a nontechnical discussion of why the animal and fungal kingdoms are in the same clade.
Parasol fungus next to a Stinging Nettle & human index finger for scale. Note that the fungus is more closely related to the finger than to the plant as both are members of the clade of Opisthokonts (a word hitherto unused in Bluesky?) 😲.
Somewhere in Bedfordshire today.🍄📷
Somewhere in Bedfordshire today.🍄📷
October 9, 2023 at 7:10 PM
Parasol fungus next to a Stinging Nettle & human index finger for scale. Note that the fungus is more closely related to the finger than to the plant as both are members of the clade of Opisthokonts (a word hitherto unused in Bluesky?) 😲.
Somewhere in Bedfordshire today.🍄📷
Somewhere in Bedfordshire today.🍄📷
Together with mammalian KSR1/2 and budding yeast Ste5, our discovery of Sms1 demonstrates the #evolutionary #convergence of the MAPK scaffolds in opisthokonts, with the independent acquisition of MAPK affinity and plasma membrane targeting domains.
May 12, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Together with mammalian KSR1/2 and budding yeast Ste5, our discovery of Sms1 demonstrates the #evolutionary #convergence of the MAPK scaffolds in opisthokonts, with the independent acquisition of MAPK affinity and plasma membrane targeting domains.
!NEW Preprint!
The evolutionary relationships among animals, fungi, and their unicellular relatives—the Opisthokonts—remain contentious.
We generated a taxon- and gene-rich dataset to determine why, moving us closer toward the phylogenomic resolution of Opisthokonts.
The evolutionary relationships among animals, fungi, and their unicellular relatives—the Opisthokonts—remain contentious.
We generated a taxon- and gene-rich dataset to determine why, moving us closer toward the phylogenomic resolution of Opisthokonts.
October 6, 2023 at 4:28 PM
!NEW Preprint!
The evolutionary relationships among animals, fungi, and their unicellular relatives—the Opisthokonts—remain contentious.
We generated a taxon- and gene-rich dataset to determine why, moving us closer toward the phylogenomic resolution of Opisthokonts.
The evolutionary relationships among animals, fungi, and their unicellular relatives—the Opisthokonts—remain contentious.
We generated a taxon- and gene-rich dataset to determine why, moving us closer toward the phylogenomic resolution of Opisthokonts.
Arise my fellow opisthokonts!
January 22, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Arise my fellow opisthokonts!
opisthokonts to the right of me
April 6, 2026 at 5:09 PM
opisthokonts to the right of me
Now online as an "accepted manuscript" @jxbotany.bsky.social : Our attempt on summarising our current biophysical knowledge of plant kinesins - including look-up tables for all published motor parameters and where to find them academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
Plant kinesins: a bottom-up approach – from single molecules to function
Abstract. During land colonisation, plants evolved new microtubule structures that have no functional analogues in opisthokonts, namely animals and fungi.
academic.oup.com
July 9, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Now online as an "accepted manuscript" @jxbotany.bsky.social : Our attempt on summarising our current biophysical knowledge of plant kinesins - including look-up tables for all published motor parameters and where to find them academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
how nerdy is it to say Super Furry Opisthokonts?
May 11, 2026 at 4:07 PM
how nerdy is it to say Super Furry Opisthokonts?
did you know that the opisthokonts are named from the ancient greek ὀπίσθιος (opísthios) 'rear, posterior', and κοντός (kontós) 'pole?
so i'm feeling opisthokontic now. need me some posterior pole.
i hunger. oozing down the hall in search of sustenance.
so i'm feeling opisthokontic now. need me some posterior pole.
i hunger. oozing down the hall in search of sustenance.
combobulation level: eukaryote
slowly the world begins to coagulate and take form around me. i shall evolve eye stems eventually with which I can take a look.
*swims around the primordial soup*
slowly the world begins to coagulate and take form around me. i shall evolve eye stems eventually with which I can take a look.
*swims around the primordial soup*
good morning from the primordial ooze, wherein i have woken from some inpleasant dreams and am currently trying
to speedrun my re-humanification so I can get out of bed and pee.
current combobulation level: protozoan
to speedrun my re-humanification so I can get out of bed and pee.
current combobulation level: protozoan
June 4, 2024 at 2:19 PM
did you know that the opisthokonts are named from the ancient greek ὀπίσθιος (opísthios) 'rear, posterior', and κοντός (kontós) 'pole?
so i'm feeling opisthokontic now. need me some posterior pole.
i hunger. oozing down the hall in search of sustenance.
so i'm feeling opisthokontic now. need me some posterior pole.
i hunger. oozing down the hall in search of sustenance.
I bet it sits there complaining she gives opisthokonts a bad name.
April 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I bet it sits there complaining she gives opisthokonts a bad name.
Fantastic! I’m looking forward to learning more about the subject and dropping opisthokonts into causal conversations! 😄
January 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Fantastic! I’m looking forward to learning more about the subject and dropping opisthokonts into causal conversations! 😄
Not to mention we’re far more closely related to fungi than plants. All fungi and animals are Opisthokonts!
May 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Not to mention we’re far more closely related to fungi than plants. All fungi and animals are Opisthokonts!
It’s full of interesting stuff Jeremy, not just the forensics. And where else would you learn about opisthokonts? 😄
January 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM
It’s full of interesting stuff Jeremy, not just the forensics. And where else would you learn about opisthokonts? 😄
Stranded short nascent strand sequencing reveals the topology of DNA replication origins in Trypanosoma brucei
Stranded short nascent strand sequencing reveals the topology of DNA replication origins in Trypanosoma brucei
Replication origins in Trypanosoma brucei integrate multiple features previously described individually in opisthokonts, revealing a unified structural topology built from strand-specific nucleotide composition,...
buff.ly
June 14, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Stranded short nascent strand sequencing reveals the topology of DNA replication origins in Trypanosoma brucei