Leon Hilgers

The paper presents a high-quality genome assembly of the sea stickleback and reveals chromosomal fusions and fissions that reshape understanding of karyotype evolution in sticklebacks.

This study integrates genomics and transcriptomics to identify molecular changes in vampire bats adapted to blood-feeding, revealing shifts in gene expression and function across multiple biological pathways.

TOGA2 improves gene annotation and ortholog identification across vertebrate genomes, achieving higher completeness and accuracy than existing methods.

The paper uses whole-genome phylogenomic and synteny data to resolve the evolutionary origin of flatfish body asymmetry, finding strong support for a single origin.

The paper uses genomic data to determine whether flatfish asymmetry evolved once or multiple times, finding strong support for a single origin.

The paper shows that prolonged stemness in the tail of Japanese eels drives extreme axis segmentation through delayed Hox13 activation and sustained Oct4 expression.

This study presents seven reference genomes of side-necked turtles, revealing chromosomal dynamics, sex chromosome evolution, and molecular mechanisms underlying skeletal innovation and cancer resistance.

The paper identifies and resolves false population size peaks in PSMC analyses, showing they result from parameter settings and not true population dynamics.

This study presents a haplotype-resolved genome and population genomic analysis of the garden dormouse, revealing population structure and isolation patterns that inform conservation strategies.

TOGA integrates gene annotation and orthology inference across hundreds of genomes, improving ortholog detection and creating large comparative gene resources.