Claudia C Weber

The paper estimates Madagascar's insect fauna contains at least 250,000 species, most unrecorded, and finds global homeostatic forces, not lineage composition, shape its ecological similarity to temperate forests.

The paper presents 40 new microsporidian genomes, revealing evidence of sexual reproduction and autopolyploidy, with tetraploid genomes organized into diploid compartments.

This paper presents two new Kudoa genomes assembled from contaminated fish samples, revealing conserved gene order and rapid sequence evolution despite genomic simplification.

The paper develops a method to identify cobionts, parasites, and contaminants in long-read genomic data using sequence composition and a Variational Autoencoder, with minimal reliance on reference data.