R. Cowan

Symbiotic bacterial community of Drosophila melanogaster changes with nutritional modifications of the diet but can alleviate negative effects on larval phenotypes

This study shows that dietary changes in Drosophila melanogaster alter their gut microbiota composition and can be mitigated by symbiotic bacteria, improving larval survival and reducing triglyceride levels.

Deep mining of early antibody response in COVID-19 patients yields potent neutralisers and reveals high level of convergence

The paper identifies potent neutralising antibodies from early COVID-19 patient samples and shows high convergence in antibody sequences across studies.

Hundreds of nuclear and plastid loci yield insights into orchid relationships

This study uses nuclear and plastid gene data to analyze orchid phylogenetic relationships, finding incongruence between nuclear and plastid trees and higher informativeness in nuclear genes.

Influence of the lab adopted natural diet and environmental and parental microbiota on life history and metabolic phenotype of Drosophila melanogaster larvae.

This study examines how natural diet, environmental, and parental microbiota influence obesity-related traits in Drosophila larvae, showing significant differences in phenotypes based on diet and microbial exposure.

Repeated parallel losses of inflexed stamens in Moraceae: phylogenomics and generic revision of the tribe Moreae and the reinstatement of the tribe Olmedieae (Moraceae)

This paper presents a phylogenomic study of the Moraceae family, revealing repeated losses of inflexed stamens and proposing a revised classification of the tribe Moreae.

A phylogenomic analysis of Nepenthes (Nepenthaceae)

This study uses high-throughput sequencing to analyze the phylogeny of Nepenthes species, confirming some clades and highlighting inconsistencies in others.