Gonzalo Francisco Rivas‐Torres

A Highly Contiguous Reference Genome for Scalesia gordilloi (Asteraceae), a Critically Endangered Plant Endemic to the Galapagos Islands

This paper presents the first high-quality reference genome for Scalesia gordilloi, a critically endangered plant, using Oxford Nanopore sequencing to enable conservation and comparative genomics studies.

Hiding in Plain Sight: Novel Observations of Plant Crypsis in a Well-Known Symbiotic System of a Hyperdiverse Tropical Forest

The paper documents a novel case of plant crypsis in devils gardens, showing that Palicourea alba mimics dead leaf litter to persist within ant-plant mutualisms.

Seeing the forest and the trees: a workflow for automatic acquisition of ultra-high resolution drone photos of tropical forest canopies to support botanical and ecological studies

This paper introduces a drone-based workflow and open-source software to capture ultra-high resolution canopy photos for tropical forest studies, enabling accurate taxonomic identification.

Genomic stability in the Galapagos Scalesia adaptive radiation: Consistent transposable element accumulation despite hybridization and ecological niche shifts

The paper examines TE accumulation in Scalesia species and finds no significant variation despite hybridization and niche shifts, challenging the role of TEs in diversification.