Fabrice Vavre

This study sequenced Rickettsiella genomes from ticks and used comparative genomics to identify variable metabolic pathways and potential mechanisms for symbiotic interactions with arthropods.

The paper compares transcriptomic responses to pyrethroid treatment in two closely related bed bug strains with differing resistance, finding few constitutive gene differences but many induced genes related to detoxification.

The paper introduces a reference-free method to identify, quantify, and annotate SNPs from RNA-seq data in non-model species, showing comparable accuracy to reference-based methods.