Marc Robinson‐Rechavi

This study identifies a conserved post-embryonic gene network in teleost fish that is responsive to thyroid hormone and ecological variation, showing how it evolves through gene copy number changes.

This study measures high genomic diversity in the European amphioxus and finds that long-distance larval dispersal maintains a panmictic population structure despite limited adult mobility.

The paper identifies a conserved transcriptomic pattern in isopod moulting and shows the posterior limbs exhibit a transcriptomic chimera during the intramoult phase.

The paper investigates gene family evolution across Pancrustacea, finding that transitions to metamorphic development are associated with gene family expansions and functional convergence.

This study presents a comparative genomic analysis of arthropod moulting machinery across four subphyla to understand evolutionary dynamics of key gene families.

This paper shows how the spider venom gland evolved by integrating three distinct developmental programs: appendage patterning, secretory epithelium maintenance, and myogenic metabolism.

The paper examines molecular conservation patterns during molar development in mice and hamsters, finding that conservation varies with developmental stage and is influenced by both intrinsic and extrinsic evolutionary pressures.

This work analyzes CAFA5 submissions, showing improved accuracy in protein function prediction and highlights the role of protein language models and 3D structures in performance gains.

The scFAIR Consortium develops a unified metadata schema and portal to improve FAIRness of scRNA-seq data through standardized annotations and semantic search.

This study characterizes the moulting process in Atlantic horseshoe crabs and compares it with other arthropods to understand evolutionary patterns of ecdysis.

The paper analyzes moulting gene expression across five pancrustacean species to identify conserved and lineage-specific gene modules, revealing an inverse hourglass pattern in temporal expression.

TaxonMatch integrates taxonomic data from heterogeneous databases by reconciling synonyms and resolving inconsistencies to create unified taxonomic structures.

This study identifies convergent substitutions in teleost fish genomes and shows they are associated with intermediate pleiotropy, enabling adaptive variation during ecological shifts.

RegEvol detects directional selection in regulatory sequences by linking transcription factor binding predictions to evolutionary models, identifying 5.1% of Drosophila regulatory regions under directional selection.

This study investigates how venom glands in marine snails evolved by redistributing ancestral digestive functions to other organs and modulating secretory machinery.

The paper identifies an inverse hourglass pattern of conservation in rodent molar development, showing greater conservation at early and late stages than intermediate ones.

This study characterizes the moult cycle and setal development of the Atlantic ditch shrimp Palaemon varians using microscopic analysis of uropod setae.

The paper examines gene expression variability across organs in three ray-finned fish species, finding that brain-biased genes show stable regulation despite inter-individual differences.

Taxonbridge merges GBIF and NCBI taxonomies to create consistent, deduplicated custom taxonomies for extant and extinct species.

The paper identifies a truncated duplication of the amhr2 gene on the Y chromosome in Pangasiid catfishes as a conserved master sex-determining gene.

The paper introduces a method to improve gene expression calling in RNA-Seq by using intergenic read counts as a background reference, showing better consistency across biological replicates.

OMAmer improves protein subfamily assignment by using alignment-free methods and phylogenetic information, reducing misassignments compared to closest sequence approaches.

Bgee provides an integrated expression atlas and comparative transcriptomics resource for multiple animal species using curated healthy wild-type expression data.

The paper systematically analyzes genomic features of 26 parthenogenetic animals and finds that no feature is consistently replicated across transitions to asexuality, suggesting lineage-specific patterns.

This study evaluates seven methods for detecting rhythmic gene expression and finds they are only consistent for genes with strong rhythmic signals.

The paper introduces GeneBridge, a method for imputing gene function and predicting module connections using multi-species expression data, and demonstrates its application across 1,700 datasets.

The paper investigates the hourglass pattern of Evo-Devo by showing reduced expression variability during the phylotypic stage in Drosophila melanogaster, linked to histone modification-mediated noise control.

The paper identifies evolutionarily conserved functional modules related to proteostasis in normal aging across species and links them to age-related GWAS and caloric restriction.

The paper compares codon models that account for substitution rate variation and finds that ignoring rate variation leads to many false positives in positive selection detection.

The paper introduces a semantic model and federated approach to integrate heterogeneous biological databases, enabling joint queries across gene expression, orthology, and protein data sources.