Iñaki Ruiz‐Trillo

The paper identifies uncharacterized lineages within Holozoa and Opisthokonta, highlighting gaps in sampling diversity for understanding animal origins.

This study presents a multi-omic atlas of the siphonophore Physalia utriculus, revealing the regulatory mechanisms of colonial division of labour and the molecular basis of venom activity.

The paper examines the relationship between abundance, genetic diversity, and spatial connectivity in marine eukaryotes using environmental DNA data, finding widespread decoupling between abundance and diversity, especially in unicellular organisms.

The paper traces the origin of eukaryotic plasmalogen biosynthesis to horizontal gene transfer from Myxobacteria, revealing evolutionary divergence in plasmalogen synthesis across eukaryotic lineages.

This study shows protists have stronger and more recent oceanic genetic structure than Archaeplastida and Metazoa, suggesting human-mediated dispersal influences their distribution.

The paper investigates aggregation in a unicellular relative of animals, finding that it uses genes involved in animal multicellularity, suggesting aggregation was key to animal evolution.

The paper uses transcriptomic and mathematical modeling to study aggregation in Capsaspora owczarzaki, revealing dynamic gene expression and a nonlinear adhesion response that explains aggregate formation and disassembly.

The paper introduces eKOI, a curated mitochondrial COI gene database to improve taxonomic resolution in metabarcoding, revealing new biodiversity in protists.

The paper identifies a periodic transcriptional program in Capsaspora owczarzaki, showing similarities to animal cell cycle regulation and suggesting an intermediate state in the evolution of cyclin-CDK systems.