This study characterizes the microbiome of Antarctic chironomid midges, revealing substrate and ornithogenic influence effects on microbial communities and the presence of Wolbachia.

bioRxiv · Dec 15, 2025 · PreprintMicrobiology

Footprints of worldwide adaptation in structured populations of D. melanogaster through the expanded DEST 2.0 genomic resource

Joaquin C. B. Nunez, Marta Coronado‐Zamora, Mathieu Gautier, Martin Kapun, Sonja Steindl, Lino Ometto, Katja M. Hoedjes, Julia Beets, R. Axel W. Wiberg, Giovanni R Mazzeo, David J. Bass, Denys Radionov, Iryna A. Kozeretska, Maria Zinchenko, O. V. Protsenko, , Alan O. Bergland

The paper uses DEST 2.0 to analyze genetic variation in D. melanogaster across continents and time, identifying adaptation patterns and stable spatial genetic structures.

Molecular Biology and Evolution · Jul 30, 2025Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology

Drosophila Evolution over Space and Time (DEST) - A New Population Genomics Resource

Martin Kapun, Joaquin C. B. Nunez, María Bogaerts-Márquez, Jesús Murga-Moreno, Margot Paris, Joseph Outten, Marta Coronado‐Zamora, Courtney Tern, Omar Rota‐Stabelli, Maria Pilar García Guerreiro, Sònia Casillas, Dorcas Juana Orengo, Eva Puerma, Maaria Kankare, Lino Ometto, , Alan O. Bergland

The paper develops a bioinformatics pipeline to integrate Drosophila melanogaster genomic data from diverse sources, creating a large dataset called DEST for population genetics analysis.

Molecular Biology and Evolution · Sep 1, 2021Peer-reviewedGenomics

Genomic analysis of P elements in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster

Casey Bergman, Shunhua Han, Michael G. Nelson, Vladyslav Bondarenko, Iryna A. Kozeretska

The paper analyzes P element insertions in Drosophila melanogaster populations to understand variation in gonadal dysgenesis phenotypes and shows that insertion numbers do not strongly correlate with phenotype severity.

PeerJ · Sep 15, 2017Peer-reviewedGenomics