N. Sierra

Speciation in kleptoparasites of oak gall wasps often correlates with shifts into new tree habitats, tree organs, and gall morphospace

The paper investigates whether host shifts to new trees, organs, or gall morphologies drive diversification in oak gall wasp kleptoparasites, finding that most divergence events correlate with shifts to non-ancestral galls.

A novel approach to comparative RNA-Seq does not support a conserved set of genes underlying animal regeneration

This study uses a novel statistical method to analyze RNA-seq data from six animal regeneration datasets, finding that conserved gene clusters are enriched in structural genes rather than morphogenesis regulators.