João Gabriel R. N. Ferreira

The paper resolves taxonomic confusion in sun corals by combining molecular phylogenetics and genome assemblies, revealing T. coccinea as the cosmopolitan species and T. tagusensis as endemic to the Galapagos.

This paper evaluates autonomous eDNA metabarcoding for offshore biodiversity monitoring around an FPSO, finding that repeated sampling is needed to distinguish transient from persistent patterns.

MitoHiFi assembles mitochondrial genomes from PacBio HiFi reads, identifying heteroplasmy variants and excluding nuclear contaminants, and has been used to assemble 374 mitochondrial genomes.

The paper presents a chromosome-level genome assembly for the golden mussel using Hi-C, PacBio HiFi, and 10X sequencing data, achieving high contiguity and annotation.

The paper analyzes the population structure of golden mussels across five Brazilian reservoirs using ddRAD-seq and finds no geographic genetic structure.