Patrick Wincker

The paper analyzes the counter-defensome diversity across 50,595 DNA phage genomes from different environments, revealing variation linked to host range, habitat, and geography.

The paper characterizes the eukaryotic diversity in coral reef environments, revealing high diversity and identifying environmental drivers shaping these communities.

The paper generates a chromosome-scale genome assembly for an Australian finger lime and uses resequencing to catalog genetic diversity in Oceanian citrus, revealing population structure and hybridization patterns.

The paper investigates the diversity and distribution of Apicomplexa across marine environments using metabarcoding data, revealing previously unknown diversity and biogeographic patterns.

The paper analyzes corallicolid parasites in Pocillopora corals across the Pacific Ocean, finding their widespread presence and linking their abundance to environmental factors and host immune responses.

The paper uses the enterosignature model to stratify gut microbiome variation and links functional metabolic patterns to host health outcomes across multiple cohorts.

This study assesses the microbial biosynthetic potential of reef-building corals using genome-resolved metagenomics, revealing host-specific microbiomes with high biotechnological value.

The paper constructs a citrus super-pangenome from four ancestral species, revealing evolutionary patterns and genetic diversity through gene annotation, resequencing, and PAV analysis.

The paper presents the chromosome-level genome assembly of Androsace saussurei, a plant adapted to extreme alpine environments.

This study generates absolute estimates of plankton cell concentrations and carbon biomass using environmental genomic data, revealing ecological associations and quantitative biogeographies of photosynthetic lineages.

The paper analyzes brown algal genomes to trace the origin and evolution of U/V sex chromosomes, revealing gene gain-driven evolution and the demise of these systems through hermaphroditism and gene hierarchy shifts.

The paper introduces the JEDI marker as a universal biodiversity measure, demonstrating its applicability across ecological scales and providing an automated bioinformatic workflow for standardized analysis.

This study analyzes diatom diversity and abundance in the global ocean using Tara Oceans data, identifying key environmental drivers and community patterns.

The paper analyzes global ocean data to show that physical and biological patchiness are decoupled, using variance slope to quantify spatial patterns.

The paper presents the chromosome-level genome assembly of Arca noae, a Mediterranean bivalve, providing evolutionary insights and genomic resources for studying environmental adaptation.

The paper presents the genome of Pinctada radiata, a Lessepsian migrant, providing insights into its genetic adaptations to environmental changes and supporting conservation efforts.

The paper presents genome sequences of four Ixodes species, revealing gene family amplifications and evolutionary patterns in ticks.

This study investigates cyanate lyase function in Pelagomonas calceolata under different nutrient conditions, finding it reduces intracellular cyanate toxicity rather than metabolizing extracellular cyanate.

The paper assembles polyploid nematode genomes using long-read sequencing and identifies novel telomeric repeats that replace the conserved (TTAGGC)n sequence.

The paper analyzes defensomes in 7,759 bacterial genomes from diverse environments, revealing variation in defense systems linked to lifestyle and habitat.

The paper analyzes metatranscriptomes across a North Atlantic-Arctic gradient, finding differential and convergent gene expression changes in eukaryotic phytoplankton at the polar front.

The paper analyzes genetic divergence in three coral species across a Pacific environmental gradient, showing species-specific evolutionary patterns despite similar environments.

The paper reports the chromosome-scale genome of Pelagomonas calceolata, revealing adaptations to iron-poor environments and its potential expansion under climate change.

The paper reports higher gene counts in two coral genomes due to tandem duplications, suggesting a role in immune system and disease resistance.

This paper evaluates Oxford Nanopore and Bionano Genomics technologies for detecting structural variations in Arabidopsis thaliana, finding that ONT provides more specific SVs while Bionano better characterizes large SVs.

This paper presents a high-quality chromosome-scale genome assembly of bread wheat using long-read sequencing, enhancing research and breeding applications.

This paper reports a telomere-to-telomere chromosome-scale assembly of the banana genome using Oxford Nanopore long-read sequencing.

The paper identifies male-specific nervous ganglia and LDPGs in Oithona nana, linking them to proteolysis and male-specific physiology.

The paper studies genomic variability in Bathycoccus prasinos across different oceanic temperatures, finding temperature-associated variant frequency changes and minimal mutational strategies for thermal adaptation.

The paper develops a flexible metabarcoding pipeline for prokaryotic and eukaryotic data, showing clustering and LULU-curation improve biodiversity inventory reliability.