Dominique Colinet

The paper identifies and characterizes orphan genes in eight root-knot nematode species, finding they contribute to parasitism and are expressed during the infective juvenile stage.

The paper presents the telomere-to-telomere genome of Xiphinema index, revealing HGTs related to plant parasitism and an unprecedented epigenetic toolkit in nematodes.

The paper evaluates transformer-based models' ability to predict structural features of orphan proteins and finds they perform poorly on these sequences compared to homologous proteins.

The paper identifies plant-derived horizontal gene transfer (HGT) events in Bemisia tabaci, revealing functional CAZymes with distinct glucanase activities.

This study shows that nitrate reductase activity is essential for the nitrogen-fixing symbiosis between Medicago truncatula and Sinorhizobium meliloti, as evidenced by impaired nodulation in a double mutant.

The paper presents genome assemblies and analysis of two aphid parasitoid wasps, identifying AT-richness and gene family expansions linked to host interactions and symbiosis.