David M. Plotkin

This study identifies lineage-specific gene families in butterflies and moths, revealing dietary adaptations linked to plant detoxification and horizontal gene transfer.

This paper develops a CRISPR-based diagnostic method using CO1 gene targeting to detect invasive moth pests with high accuracy and sensitivity.

This study uses HiFi long-read sequencing to assemble repetitive heavy fibroin genes in moth and caddisfly genomes, demonstrating its effectiveness for such challenging regions.