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A single genetic innovation at the origin of plant terrestrialization https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.14.744897v1
August 17, 2026 at 2:22 PM
thatwriterdeezy.bsky.social
I think Gigantamax is the worst gimmick pokemon has ever created and I wish they'd retcon it.

It really should just be Mega Evolution and Terrestrialization.
February 15, 2026 at 3:09 PM
huguesrenault.bsky.social
Horizontal transposon transfer during plant terrestrialization
#plantscience
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Horizontal transposon transfer during plant terrestrialization
During the move to land, plants acquired transposable elements by horizontal transfer from bacteria and fungi and land plants have many long non-coding RNAs derived from retrotransposons acquired by ...
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November 25, 2024 at 8:09 AM
caeciliafkunz.bsky.social
Our review on “Functional genomic perspectives on plant terrestrialization” in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social is out now! Check it out here:
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#terrestrialization
#Algae
#Evolution
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@jandevries.bsky.social
Functional genomic perspectives on plant terrestrialization
Plant evolutionary research has made leaps in exploring the deep evolutionary roots of embryophytes. A solid phylogenomic framework was established, a…
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March 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
melaniekrich.bsky.social
New preprint alert!
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The conclusion of a long-lasting obsession about lipids, plant terrestrialization and the origin of plant symbioses 1/7 🧵
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August 18, 2026 at 11:11 AM
whatahellofawaytodad.com
Shes playing Pokémon violet. She rides around on a Pokémon motorcycle and she's going on about terrestrialization. It's blasphemous
July 24, 2026 at 1:11 AM
hartman-plantlab.com
Great to kick off our @dompsfr.bsky.social seminar series with @huguesrenault.bsky.social this year, on key players in biopolymer formation that allowed terrestrialization 🌱 #plantscience
January 10, 2025 at 10:14 AM
trosborne.bsky.social
Gastropod terrestrialization thread 🤩 #SnailSunday #JoyOfMolluscs
snailseyeview.bsky.social Bronwen Scott @snailseyeview.bsky.social · May 11
Here are two land snails, both alike in dignity. No, wait. That’s the Montagues and Capulets.

These snails live on land (which is the very low bar for defining a land snail) but there are distinct differences between them. (1/12) #snails

Pics: © Dee McMahon CC BY-NC © Reiner Richter CC BY-NC-SA
Snail with a white, round shell with a tall spire, and translucent body crawling over a leaf that has been pre-nibbled, probably by something else. The shell has rounded whorls. A thin, flat, round operculum is tucked between animal and shell. The snail has two long, tapering tentacles and relatively big black eyes at the base. The head tapers into a snout. It's shaped a bit like a clothes iron if an iron was a snail, which is a Disney cartoon yet to be created. Leptopoma perlucidium (Cyclophoridae): Queensland, Australia. © Dee McMahon CC BY-NC https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/174050229 Massive unit of a snail crawling over a fallen tree trunk. The shell is big and round and could probably hold a decent mug of tea, if the snail wasn't using it. The shell is brown with some faint black blotches towards the pale apex of the spire. The body is pinkish-brown. This snail has four tentacles, all black and all held in a way that makes it look as though they are being blown back by the wind. The two upper windswept and interesting tentacles are long and have eyes at the tip, whereas the lower ones are short olfactory tentacles. Hedleyella falconeri (Caryodidae): New South Wales, Australia © Reiner Richter CC BY-NC-SA https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/51850987
May 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
huguesrenault.bsky.social
Three #Master2 #internship topics are available in our team to study the #adaptations associated with #plant #terrestrialization 👇
August 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
phil-donoghue.bsky.social
Our latest: Evolution of herbivory, not terrestrialization, drove morphological change in the mandibles of Palaeozoic, led by @harryberks.bsky.social with help from Pablo Milla Carmona @emilyrayfield.bsky.social and myself @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social. Out now in
@evojlinnsoc.bsky.social
The evolution of herbivory, not terrestrialization, drove morphological change in the mandibles of Palaeozoic tetrapods
Abstract. The radiation of tetrapods during the Devonian and Early Carboniferous was associated with a transition from aquatic to terrestrial environments,
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March 21, 2025 at 11:15 AM
isabelmonte.bsky.social
Don't forget to submit your abstract for the #EMBO Workshop on #PlantEvolution by August 25th!
Join us @gmivienna.bsky.social in November to discuss all things #plantevodevo

Please spread the word! 🙏🦠🌱

#algae #bryophytes #nonseedplants #terrestrialization
August 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
grandpahiro.bsky.social
Beautiful talk by Jan @jandevries.bsky.social on evolution of stress response networks. Establishing Zygnematophyceae as models is key for understanding plant terrestrialization. @watertoland.bsky.social

Wednesday seminar series @mpipz.bsky.social

Thanks for the visit and fruitful discussions!
September 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
newphyt.bsky.social
Our #VirtualIssue on Plant terrestrialization focuses on piecing together #streptophyte trait #evolution and curating research that has contributed to advances in the evolutionary inference of (early) land plant form and function 👇

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Streptophyte terrestrialization and the conquest of land by embryophytes. Illustration adapted from Fig. 1 of de Vries & Archibald (2018; https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14975) by Debbie Maizels.
December 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
huguesrenault.bsky.social
Latest review from the lab: Cytochromes P450 evolution in the plant terrestrialization context royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
September 30, 2024 at 6:20 AM
franzanth.bsky.social
I'm not a TV watcher so I only learned today that Spongebob's art direction has undergone terrestrialization www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhs8...
How Spongebob Lost Its Underwater Atmosphere
YouTube video by Awe
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June 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
natureportfolio.nature.com
A study in Nature analyzes 154 genomes from 21 animal phyla and reconstructs ancestral adaptations to life on land across 11 distinct events, providing strong evidence of convergent genomic evolution and repeated terrestrial colonization in the animal kingdom. go.nature.com/4pHIwYF 🧪 #evolution
Fig. 1: Reconstruction of ancestral genomes and timescale across animal terrestrialization.
December 6, 2025 at 2:25 AM
natureportfolio.nature.com
A study in Nature analyzes 154 genomes from 21 animal phyla and reconstructs ancestral adaptations to life on land across 11 distinct events, providing strong evidence of convergent genomic evolution and repeated terrestrial colonization in the animal kingdom. go.nature.com/4pHIwYF 🧪 #evolution
Fig. 1: Reconstruction of ancestral genomes and timescale across animal terrestrialization.
November 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
official-smbe.bsky.social
🐜 Today's GSEA focus is on Gemma Martínez Redondo, PhD candidate @ub.edu

Gemma's research combines traditional phylogenetics, phylogenomics, and machine learning to understand the genomic basis of terrestrialization across animals

More on Gemma ⬇️ and follow her: @gemmaeling.bsky.social
May 5, 2025 at 8:07 AM
sramundo.bsky.social
1/7 New preprint: we found that Chlamydomonas carries a giant and unexpectedly elaborate chloroplast RNA polymerase with 12 previously unknown subunits, overturning the idea that the complexity of this organellar enzyme emerged during plant terrestrialization! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
The structure of a 2-MDa chloroplast RNA polymerase reveals unexpected evolutionary complexity
Transcription in chloroplasts depends on the Plastid-Encoded RNA polymerase (PEP), a bacterial-derived enzyme whose catalytic core remains encoded by the highly reduced genome inherited from the cyano...
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June 24, 2026 at 9:47 AM
mpnelsen.bsky.social
#plants, #animals, & #fungi, oh my! New paper by K. Boyce and I in #paleobiology on the rise of Phanerozoic terrestrial ecosystems. We synthesize paleo/neontological data and also discuss the importance of phylogenies for lineages lacking a robust fossil record. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Terrestrialization: toward a shared framework for ecosystem evolution | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core
Terrestrialization: toward a shared framework for ecosystem evolution
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April 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
reskilab.bsky.social
Interesting read:
The Draparnaldia genome: alternative mechanisms for multicellularity and terrestrialization in green plants
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The Draparnaldia genome: alternative mechanisms for multicellularity and terrestrialization in green plants
Green plants contain two algal lineages: Streptophyte algae that diverged into land plants and Chlorophyte algae that are mostly aquatic. Draparnaldia is a Chlorophyte alga morphologically resembling ...
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April 30, 2025 at 8:38 AM
nature.com
Nature research paper: Convergent genome evolution shaped the emergence of terrestrial animals

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Convergent genome evolution shaped the emergence of terrestrial animals - Nature
Comparisons of 154 genomes from 21 animal phyla and outgroups have been used to reconstruct ancestral adaptation to life on land across 11 distinct terrestrialization events, revealing strong evidence for convergent genomic evolution across the animal kingdom and recurring periods of terrestrial colonization.
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November 13, 2025 at 9:18 AM
phil-donoghue.bsky.social
Pleased to be a small part of this molecular palaeobiology study by Jialin Wei, led by Marta Álvarez-Presas and Jordi Paps, with help from Davide Pisani. Animals repeatedly used similar genomic solutions to the challenges of terrestrialization @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
newphyt.bsky.social
Plant #terrestrialization: piecing together #streptophyte trait #evolution

Check out this #Editorial from Panstruga, Fürst-Jansen & de Vries introducing the Virtual issue 'Plant terrestrialization'

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Phylogeny of the green lineage and selected recent advances in land plant evolution research published in New Phytologist.
August 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social
Really pleased to transition from 2024 to 2025 with Tatiana Vernie's work on the evolution of the common symbiosis pathway published @pnas.org 🔽

We finally demonstrate that ☘️ have maintained a genetic pathway to engage with🍄for half a billion years!

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Conservation of symbiotic signaling since the most recent common ancestor of land plants | PNAS
Plants have colonized lands 450 million years ago. This terrestrialization was facilitated by developmental and functional innovations. Recent evo-...
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January 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM