Dimitrios ‐ Georgios Kontopoulos

The paper examines gene-level convergence in placental mammals during evolutionary shifts in torpor and finds that individual genes have low explanatory power, while pathway-level convergence is slightly stronger.

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 tests ancestral diet in Phyllostomidae bats using phylogenetic models, finding support for ancestral omnivory and early evolution of fruit feeding.

This study identifies that increased flexibility, not compactness, underlies thermal adaptation in prokaryotic adenylate kinases across 70 species.

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