Daniel Churchill Thomas

Scaling up by looking closer: extending the range of moss-Nostoc symbioses deeper into central Europe and to new moss hosts in the forest canopy.

The paper documents new Nostoc-moss symbioses in Franconia, Germany, identifying two new moss host species and showing genetic diversity in Nostoc-like organisms.

Genetic architectures of floral pigment and patterning in hybrid monkeyflowers

This study identifies genetic factors influencing floral pigment intensity and spatial patterning in hybrid monkeyflowers through QTL analysis and gene candidate hypotheses.

MYB5a/NEGAN activates petal anthocyanin pigmentation and shapes the MBW regulatory network in Mimulus luteusvar. variegatus

The paper identifies MYB5a as a gene responsible for petal lobe anthocyanin pigmentation in Mimulus luteus var. variegatus and shows its regulatory impact on the MBW network.

Understanding and mitigating some limitations of Illumina (C) MiSeq for environmental sequencing of fungi.

The paper identifies and addresses technical limitations of the Illumina MiSeq platform in fungal ITS-amplicon metabarcoding, including read abundance bias and tag-switching issues.