Lars Sommer Jermiin

The paper develops a method to impute missing mitochondrial DNA variants using a large reference alignment, improving haplogroup assignment and enabling better integration of mtDNA data from different sources.

The paper generates six reference-quality bat genomes, identifies genomic adaptations related to echolocation, immunity, and viral tolerance, and reveals regulatory elements contributing to bat traits.

The paper introduces a minimum reporting standard for multiple sequence alignments and provides a tool to assess alignment completeness.

The paper explains how information criteria like AIC and BIC can be interpreted as likelihood ratio tests with different alpha levels, helping to understand their trade-offs between sensitivity and specificity.