Marc Bailly‐Bechet

Accurate MAG reconstruction from complex soil microbiome through combined short- and HiFi long-reads metagenomics

This study combines HiFi long-read and short-read sequencing to improve MAG recovery and binning accuracy in soil microbiomes.

Identification, evolutionary history and characteristics of orphan genes in root-knot nematodes

The paper identifies and characterizes orphan genes in eight root-knot nematode species, finding they contribute to parasitism and are expressed during the infective juvenile stage.

Unzipped assemblies of polyploid root-knot nematode genomes reveal new kinds of unilateral composite telomeric repeats

The paper assembles polyploid nematode genomes using long-read sequencing and identifies novel telomeric repeats that replace the conserved (TTAGGC)n sequence.

AvP: a software package for automatic phylogenetic detection of candidate horizontal gene transfers.

AvP automatically detects candidate horizontal gene transfers using a phylogenetic framework, streamlining the process of identifying and analyzing HGTs.

Improvement of eukaryotic proteins prediction from soil metagenomes

The paper improves eukaryotic protein prediction and taxonomic annotation from soil metagenomes by using eukaryote-tailored methods, resulting in a more accurate representation of eukaryotic biodiversity.

Methylation at CpG sites in genomes of aphid Acyrtosiphon pisum and its endosymbiont Buchnera

The paper investigates DNA methylation patterns in the aphid Acyrtosiphon pisum and its endosymbiont Buchnera, finding low methylation in both despite the presence of DNMT1 in the aphid and no methylase in Buchnera.

Genome expression dynamics reveals parasitism regulatory landscape of the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita and a promoter motif associated with effector genes

The paper analyzes the spatio-temporal gene expression of Meloidogyne incognita across its life stages and identifies a conserved promoter motif associated with effector genes.