Nicolas Puillandre

Redistribution of ancestral functions underlies the evolution of venom production in marine predatory snails

This study investigates how venom glands in marine snails evolved by redistributing ancestral digestive functions to other organs and modulating secretory machinery.

SPART, a versatile and standardized data exchange format for species partition information

The paper introduces SPART, a standardized format for exchanging species partition information, to improve interoperability among species delimitation tools.

Revisiting use of DNA characters in taxonomy with MolD - a tree independent algorithm to retrieve diagnostic nucleotide characters from monolocus datasets

The paper introduces MolD, an algorithm to identify diagnostic nucleotide characters from monolocus DNA datasets, showing that redundant DNCs improve diagnosis robustness even with limited taxon sampling.