Waldan K. Kwong

The paper investigates OMV production in the gut microbiota of western honey bees and finds that OMVs are present in all tested gram-negative species and contain RNA and DNA.

This study shows that secretion systems in bee gut microbiota are mainly vertically inherited and evolve through gene loss, not horizontal transfer.

The paper analyzes the duplication history of GPCR signalling pathway components across evolution, finding distinct duplication frequencies and evolutionary ages among pathway elements.

The paper identifies a coral-infecting apicomplexan, corallicola, which retains chlorophyll biosynthesis genes in its non-photosynthetic plastid, suggesting it is an evolutionary intermediate between free-living and parasitic apicomplexans.