Ariadna E. Morales

This study integrates genomics and transcriptomics to identify molecular changes in vampire bats adapted to blood-feeding, revealing shifts in gene expression and function across multiple biological pathways.

The paper compares bat and mouse limb development using single-cell analyses to show how a conserved gene program is repurposed in bat wing formation.

TOGA integrates gene annotation and orthology inference across hundreds of genomes, improving ortholog detection and creating large comparative gene resources.

The paper generates bat induced pluripotent stem cells and finds they contain endogenous viral sequences, suggesting a deep entanglement between bats and viruses.