J. Lozano-Fernandez

MATEdb provides a curated database of high-quality transcriptome assemblies from metazoan species to improve phylogenomic studies by standardizing analysis pipelines and reducing computational costs.

This study uses amino acid recoding to improve phylogenetic accuracy at tricky nodes, showing that ctenophores are likely not the first branching animal lineage.

This study resolves the Zoraptera placement in insect phylogeny, finding Zoraptera as the earliest-diverging polyneopteran order and providing a Devonian origin for winged insects.