The paper uses deep metagenomic sequencing to characterize the viral component of the Drosophila melanogaster gut microbiome, identifying novel bacteriophages and known pathogens.

Animal Microbiome · Jun 4, 2026Peer-reviewedMicrobiology

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

Inference of recent admixture using genotype data

Peter Pfaffelhuber, Elisabeth Huss, Franz Baumdicker, Jana Naue, Sabine Lutz‐Bonengel, Fabian Staubach

This paper improves BGA inference methods to account for recent admixture, showing improved accuracy and a likelihood ratio test for detecting recent admixture in genotype data.

Forensic Science International Genetics · Sep 20, 2021Peer-reviewedGenetics

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