Scott William Roy

The paper investigates the role of the ANTSR gene in CSD across Hymenoptera, finding it conserved in Aculeata and suggesting multiple CSD loci in Formica.

The paper identifies two novel Matryoshka RNA viruses in wild birds, showing their association with haemosporidian parasites and prevalence in infected birds.

The paper analyzes minor spliceosomal introns across 3000+ eukaryotic genomes, finding neutral processes likely dominate their evolution rather than functional constraints.

The paper identifies Introners, transposable elements driving intron gain in diverse eukaryotes, and finds they are prevalent in marine species and phylogenetically distant lineages.

The paper analyzes genomic data from Entamoeba species to show coevolution of introns and splicing machinery, transformation of splicing signals, and widespread intron gain.

The paper traces the evolutionary histories of H2A variants in nematodes, revealing patterns of gene retention, loss, and intron conservation.

The paper identifies conserved spliceosomal proteins in fungi and humans that regulate splicing efficiency and suppress weak splice sites, suggesting a role in enabling intron diversity through error limitation.

ExOrthist infers exon orthologies across species by analyzing exon sequences and their surrounding intron context, enabling analysis at any evolutionary distance.

The paper identifies an exceptional expansion of minor introns in Physarum polycephalum, showing transformed splicing signals and increased efficiency compared to other species.

The paper studies intron evolution in dinoflagellates, revealing a high diversity of intron-creating transposable elements and complex spliceosomal system transformations.

The paper updates the Intron Annotation and Orthology Database and supports the class conversion model for U12-type intron evolution.

The paper reconstructs the evolutionary history of the fused Aco2 gene in fission yeast, identifying key events like nuclear localization signal evolution and recurrent gene loss.