Yi-Jyun Luo

yjluo.bsky.social

28 outubro 2026 05:41

Excited to share our new preprint on animal photosymbiosis! Single-cell analyses reveal that intercellular algal symbiosis in an acoel relies on division of labor among conserved cell populations, rather than a specialized symbiont-hosting cell type. doi.org/10.64898/202... (1/2)

del Campo Lab

delcampolab.bsky.social

27 outubro 2026 15:32

Work by @rociomozo.bsky.social, @andreailla.bsky.social (also an undergrad in the lab at the time), and @fonamental.bsky.social at @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social. Isolates are cryobanked, 16S sequences on NCBI 🙌 Paper 📄 doi.org/10.1007/s002...

del Campo Lab

delcampolab.bsky.social

27 outubro 2026 15:32

Notes from the bench 🔬 Half-strength marine agar beat everything. TCBS gave nothing, even with Vibrio around. Coral extract recovered strains that no other medium did. And three weeks of patience brought out the slow growers.

del Campo Lab

delcampolab.bsky.social

27 outubro 2026 15:32

Strong host specificity: 70% of genera came from a single coral species, and only Ruegeria turned up in all four. Many isolates show traits linked to biofilms, surface colonization, and polysaccharide degradation, the toolkit for settling on a coral 🪸 #Holobiont

del Campo Lab

delcampolab.bsky.social

27 outubro 2026 15:32

The haul: 84 pure isolates, 37 OTUs, 20 genera across four bacterial classes 🧬. Six isolates sit below 97% 16S identity to any described species (Vibrio, Pseudoalteromonas, Alteromonas, Shewanella, Tritonibacter), so they are likely new taxa.