Carlos P. Cantalapiedra

The paper develops a target capture sequencing method to detect low-abundance chemoreceptor genes in diverse environments, revealing novel microbial chemosensory biodiversity.

The paper identifies 18 cell types in sponges, including neuroid cells with synaptic gene expression, suggesting early neuro-immune system evolution.

Rebuilt on eggNOG v5, eggNOG-mapper v2 raises average annotation rate by 608% over v1 and adds Prodigal gene calling, pairwise ortholog reports, and PFAM/SMART domain prediction.