Wenjun Bu

The paper examines the macroevolutionary consequences of asymmetrical sexual conflict in water striders, finding that male-driven trait evolution drives diversification while female resistance traits show greater flexibility.

The paper precisely annotates Drosophila mitochondrial genomes, identifies conserved polyA motifs in control regions, and provides a high-quality D. simulans mt genome.

The paper reports the full-length genome of O. polymorpha HU-11/CBS4732, revealing large duplicated segments in subtelomeric regions and structural variations between CBS4732 and NCYC495.

The paper annotates tick mitochondrial genomes using long-PCR and NGS, revealing novel STR variation and a transposon-like element, and links STR mutations to aging and disease.

The paper annotates mitochondrial genomes of human, chimpanzee, rhesus macaque, and mouse using 5' and 3' end small RNAs at 1 base-pair resolution, revealing novel functions and conserved sequence blocks.

This study uses sRNA-seq to annotate the mitochondrial genome of Erthesina fullo at 1 bp resolution, revealing new insights into tandem repeats and steady-state lncRNAs.

This study uses pan RNA-seq to show the widespread presence of 5' and 3' end small RNAs, which can annotate mitochondrial and nuclear non-coding genes and identify new steady-state RNAs, challenging classical theories.

The paper discovers complemented palindrome small RNAs (cpsRNAs) from SARS coronavirus and shows they can induce cell apoptosis, suggesting a role in viral pathogenicity.

The paper uses PacBio full-length transcriptome data to discover two novel lncRNAs in human mitochondrial DNA and propose a new class of lncRNAs called ltiRNAs.