Miklós Bálint

fDOG-Assembly identifies orthologs in unannotated genomes, outperforming traditional methods by not relying on pre-annotated proteomes and recovering missed orthologs.

This study compares the genomes of ancient asexual and sexual oribatid mites, finding that asexual species have streamlined genomes with fewer novel genes compared to their sexual relatives.

This study analyzes the genetic stability and resilience of Baltic diatom populations over 8000 years, showing accelerated genetic change linked to historical human activity.

The paper analyzes soil biodiversity changes over 20 years in Germany, finding no significant trends in alpha or beta diversity but taxon-specific compositional restructuring.

The paper introduces fDOG, a novel ortholog search tool, to trace plant cell wall degrading enzymes across 18,000 taxa, revealing invertebrates with rich PCD repertoires and limited functional modifications.

This paper develops a DNA-based index using ancient sediment DNA to assess past and present phytoplankton dominance in the Baltic Sea, revealing historical shifts in species composition.

The paper analyzes microbiomes of springtails using genome sequences to test for phylosymbiosis and environmental filtering, finding no evidence of either.

This study compares the immune response of noble and marbled crayfish to different strains of Aphanomyces astaci, revealing distinct gene expression patterns and immune tolerance in marbled crayfish.

This study evaluates how shotgun metagenomics captures composition and biomass in artificial soil invertebrate communities, showing taxon-specific biases and the influence of reference genome properties.

This study generates high-quality de novo genomes from single ethanol-preserved springtail specimens using a new amplification-based protocol, achieving over 95% BUSCO completeness.