Ekaterina Osipova

The paper identifies genomic determinants of migratory behavior in leatherback turtles, finding a putative inversion linked to navigation and genes associated with reproductive timing and neurodevelopment.

The paper assesses genomic health in leatherback turtles, finding small-stable populations have lower diversity and higher inbreeding but show genetic resilience, suggesting potential recovery if threats are mitigated.

The paper identifies convergent and lineage-specific genomic changes in sugar-feeding birds through genome and transcriptome analyses, revealing adaptive mechanisms in metabolic pathways.

The paper identifies convergent genomic adaptations in brood parasitic birds, including genes related to spermatogenesis and nervous system development, across independent origins of parasitism.

The paper generates genome assemblies for ten brood parasitic bird species and their outgroups, enabling comparative genomic analyses of obligate brood parasitism evolution.

The paper presents the chromosome-scale assembly of the giant Pleurodeles waltl genome, revealing insights into its expansion and regeneration-related genes.

TOGA integrates gene annotation and orthology inference across hundreds of genomes, improving ortholog detection and creating large comparative gene resources.

The paper summarizes methods and lessons from assembling 16 vertebrate genomes, highlights the importance of long-read sequencing, and introduces the Vertebrate Genomes Project to generate complete reference genomes for all vertebrate species.