T. Gossmann

Phylonumtomics uncovers diverse evolutionary trajectories of mitogenomic fossils buried in mammalian and avian genomes

The paper identifies NUMTs with intact mitochondrial reading frames in mammalian and avian genomes, showing evidence of introgression in birds and selection in both groups, with some NUMTs showing signs of adaptive evolution.

Evidence for strong fixation bias at 4-fold degenerate sites across genes in the great tit genome

The paper investigates GC biased gene conversion heterogeneity in the great tit genome using a new test statistic applied to 4-fold degenerate sites across three bird species.