diff --git a/workflow/envs/eggNOG.yaml b/workflow/envs/eggNOG.yaml
index ebb577e2..437bbd91 100644
--- a/workflow/envs/eggNOG.yaml
+++ b/workflow/envs/eggNOG.yaml
@@ -6,4 +6,3 @@ dependencies:
     - eggnog-mapper =2.1
     - diamond = 2.0.6
     - wget # to download_eggnog_data on macOS
-    - pandas>=1.5,<2