Moisès Bernabeu

This study investigates the role of horizontal gene transfer versus host retargeting in the early integration of chromatophores in Paulinella micropora, finding that host retargeting predominated over gene transfer.

The paper reconstructs the last eukaryotic common ancestor proteome and identifies multiple horizontal gene transfers from diverse bacterial donors, suggesting complex microbial associations in eukaryogenesis.

The paper uses simulations to assess how unsampled lineages affect gene flow inference during eukaryogenesis, finding low misinterpretation probability but specific problematic cases.

This paper validates a probabilistic method for relative dating of evolutionary events using gene trees and shows it correlates strongly with fossil-calibrated molecular clocks.