Chuan Ku
@chuanku.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Inst. Plant & Microbial Biology, Taipei, Taiwan
Adjunct Faculty, National Taiwan University
EMBO Global Investigator
#Evolution #Eukaryote #Algae #GiantVirus #Genomics
#Microbes in our environment
https://chuanku-lab.github.io/kulab
Adjunct Faculty, National Taiwan University
EMBO Global Investigator
#Evolution #Eukaryote #Algae #GiantVirus #Genomics
#Microbes in our environment
https://chuanku-lab.github.io/kulab
This work in MBE @official-smbe.bsky.social shows that the ancestor of #giantviruses likely infected amoeboid cells in an era with significantly increased oxygen levels on Earth and later spread across different lineages of eukaryotes through host shifts within hundreds of millions of years.
February 28, 2025 at 8:51 AM
This work in MBE @official-smbe.bsky.social shows that the ancestor of #giantviruses likely infected amoeboid cells in an era with significantly increased oxygen levels on Earth and later spread across different lineages of eukaryotes through host shifts within hundreds of millions of years.