Frédéric Legendre

This study compares ARMS metabarcoding protocols with photographic surveys, finding that separating ARMS faces improves biodiversity monitoring by increasing richness and ecological signal.

The study finds that Blattabacterium was lost ten times independently in three cockroach families, with some losses possibly compensated by Wolbachia associations.

This study compares regulatory changes in transcription factors during the social transition from cockroaches to termites, finding reduced regulatory complexity despite similarities with Hymenoptera.

This study identifies two diversification pulses in termites, linking their evolutionary history to climate changes and their rise as dominant tropical decomposers.

The paper presents two new high-quality genomes from the cockroach genus Cryptocercus to study adaptations to xylophagy and subsociality, finding relaxed selection and positive selection in energy production pathways.