Russell J. Stewart

The paper characterizes the primary structure of h-fibroin across caddisfly suborders, finding conserved termini and variable repeating modules linked to silk mechanical properties.

The paper reveals extensive allelic variation in silk genes across insect and spider species using long-read sequencing, highlighting convergent patterns in structural protein-coding genes.

This study compares genome assemblies using highly accurate PacBio HiFi reads versus longer but less accurate Oxford Nanopore reads, finding HiFi significantly improves contiguity and accuracy in both plants and animals.

This study uses HiFi long-read sequencing to assemble repetitive heavy fibroin genes in moth and caddisfly genomes, demonstrating its effectiveness for such challenging regions.

The paper reports the first long-read de novo genome assemblies of two tube case-making caddisflies, revealing substantial repetitive element expansion contributing to larger genome sizes compared to annulipalpian species.