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Pío Sierra, Chenxi Zhou, Bettina Fischer, Sing Wei Lim, Moritz Blumer, Maxon J. Ngochera, Richard Michael Durbin
The paper presents nine T2T genomes of Lake Malawi cichlids, revealing a novel centromeric satellite structure with inverted elements and potential implications for speciation.
Chromosome Research · Oct 9, 2026Peer-reviewedGenomics
Shenglin Liu, Mariella B. Freitas, Sirlene Souza Rodrigues Sartori, Michele Albertini, Evgeny Leushkin, Ine Alvarez van Tussenbroek, Ariadna E. Morales, Martin Pippel, Tom Brown, Alex Filipe Ramos de Sousa, Rosinéa Aparecida de Paula, Ilias Patmanidis, Willem Jespers, Leon Hilgers, Xueling Yi, , Michael Hiller
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.
bioRxiv · Jul 24, 2026 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology
Marcial Quiroga‐Carmona, Schuyler W. Liphardt, Naim M. Bautista, J. Pablo Jayat, Pablo Teta, Jason L. Malaney, Tabitha McFarland, Joseph Anthony Cook, Moritz Blumer, Nathanael D. Herrera, Zachary A. Cheviron, Jeffrey Martin Good, Guillermo D’Elía, Jay F. Storz
This study uses mitochondrial DNA and whole-genome sequence data to analyze species boundaries, diversification times, and hybridization in Andean leaf-eared mice, finding that diversification coincided with Pleistocene climate changes and ongoing hybridization between two species.
Ecology and Evolution · Jul 1, 2025Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology
Moritz Blumer, Valentina Burskaia, Ilya V. Artyushin, Jaysmita Saha, Julia Camacho-Garcia, Francisco Campuzano Jiménez, Alexander Hooft van Huysduynen, Joel Elkin, Bettina Fischer, Natalie Van Houtte, Chenxi Zhou, Sophie Gresham, Milan Malinsky, Tyler P. Linderoth, Wilson Sawasawa, , Hannes Svardal
The paper analyzes 1,375 Malawi cichlid genomes to show that sex-linked chromosomal inversions drive adaptive speciation through introgression and selection on neuro-sensory, physiological, and reproductive genes.
Science · Jun 12, 2025Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology
Miguel Vasconcelos Almeida, Moritz Blumer, Chengwei Ulrika Yuan, Pío Sierra, Jonathan L. Price, Fu Xiang Quah, Aleksandr Friman, Alexandra Dallaire, Grégoire Vernaz, Audrey L. K. Putman, Alan M Smith, Domino A. Joyce, Falk Butter, Astrid D. Haase, Richard Michael Durbin, , Eric Alexander Miska
The paper investigates the dynamic co-evolution of transposable elements and the piRNA pathway in African cichlid fishes, revealing expanded piwil1 genes and divergent piRNA-producing loci.
Genome biology · Jan 22, 2025Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology
Fu Xiang Quah, Miguel Vasconcelos Almeida, Moritz Blumer, Chengwei Ulrika Yuan, Bettina Fischer, Kirsten See, Ben Jackson, Richard Zatha, Bosco Rusuwa, George F. Turner, Maria Emilia Santos, Hannes Svardal, Martin Hemberg, Richard Michael Durbin, Eric Alexander Miska
The paper uses a pangenomic approach to analyze Lake Malawi cichlid genomes, revealing extensive structural variation driven by transposable elements.
bioRxiv · Mar 28, 2024Evolutionary Biology
Bogdan Kirilenko, Chetan Munegowda, Ekaterina Osipova, David Jebb, Virag Sharma, Moritz Blumer, Ariadna E. Morales, Alexis-Walid Ahmed, Dimitrios ‐ Georgios Kontopoulos, Leon Hilgers, Kerstin Lindblad‐Toh, Elinor K. Karlsson, Michael Hiller, Gregory Andrews, Joel C. Armstrong, , Patrick F. Sullivan
TOGA integrates gene annotation and orthology inference across hundreds of genomes, improving ortholog detection and creating large comparative gene resources.
Science · Apr 27, 2023Peer-reviewedGenomics