Saioa Manzano-Morales

The paper reconstructs the last eukaryotic common ancestor proteome and identifies multiple horizontal gene transfers from diverse bacterial donors, suggesting complex microbial associations in eukaryogenesis.

This study analyzes Asgard archaea genomes to determine the roles of horizontal gene transfer and gene duplication in their evolution, finding gene duplication drives genome size increase.

The paper uses simulations to assess how unsampled lineages affect gene flow inference during eukaryogenesis, finding low misinterpretation probability but specific problematic cases.

This study compares gene clustering criteria in prokaryotic pangenomes, showing that clustering methods significantly affect functional characterization and core genome inference, with methodological inconsistencies often exceeding ecological and phylogenetic effects.