John A. Burns

The paper analyzes global protist diversity using metagenomes and single-cell genomes, revealing extensive uncultivated and unclassified protist lineages and taxonomic blind spots.

The paper shows that the ichthyosporean C. perkinsii undergoes symmetry breaking and cleavage divisions to form multicellular colonies with distinct cell types, suggesting ancient or convergent origins of animal-like development.

This paper introduces a method to transform the symbiotic alga Oophila amblystomatis, enabling genetic manipulation and hypothesis testing in vertebrate-algae symbiosis.

The paper assesses how genome completeness, measured by BUSCO, relates to functional predictions of phagocytosis across eukaryotic organisms.