Benjamin Istace

The paper reports two Lima species with a 20-chromosome karyotype matching a proposed ancestral spiralian karyotype, revealing conserved synteny and lineage-specific fusions.

Hobrac automates reference genome selection and structural comparison to visualize synteny, improving genome assembly validation and evolutionary analysis.

The paper generates a chromosome-scale genome assembly for an Australian finger lime and uses resequencing to catalog genetic diversity in Oceanian citrus, revealing population structure and hybridization patterns.

The paper constructs a citrus super-pangenome from four ancestral species, revealing evolutionary patterns and genetic diversity through gene annotation, resequencing, and PAV analysis.

The paper investigates whether dosage compensation and meiotic sex chromosome inactivation persist in parthenogenetic stick insects with relaxed selection, finding both mechanisms are conserved despite the absence of male selection.

The paper identifies 13 genes in Brassica rapa that regulate microbiota diversity across fungal and bacterial communities, supporting the hologenome theory of evolution.

This study examines dosage compensation and meiotic sex chromosome inactivation in stick insects, finding that X chromosome expression is dynamically regulated in male tissues during development.

The paper presents the genome of Pinctada radiata, a Lessepsian migrant, providing insights into its genetic adaptations to environmental changes and supporting conservation efforts.

The paper analyzes centromere structure and function in stick insects, revealing a functionally monocentric system with holocentric-like features and chromosome-specific centromeres.

The paper describes the European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) pilot project, which tests a decentralized model for producing high-quality reference genomes across 98 European species.

The paper presents genome sequences of four Ixodes species, revealing gene family amplifications and evolutionary patterns in ticks.

The paper reports the chromosome-scale genome of Pelagomonas calceolata, revealing adaptations to iron-poor environments and its potential expansion under climate change.

This paper evaluates Oxford Nanopore and Bionano Genomics technologies for detecting structural variations in Arabidopsis thaliana, finding that ONT provides more specific SVs while Bionano better characterizes large SVs.

This paper presents a high-quality chromosome-scale genome assembly of bread wheat using long-read sequencing, enhancing research and breeding applications.

This paper reports a telomere-to-telomere chromosome-scale assembly of the banana genome using Oxford Nanopore long-read sequencing.

Hapo-G improves genome assemblies by incorporating haplotype information from short reads to correct errors in diploid and heterozygous genomes.

The paper presents a new long-read assembly of the Brassica napus Darmor-bzh genome using nanopore sequencing, optical and genetic maps, resulting in a highly contiguous and complete reference genome.

BiSCoT improves genome assemblies using optical maps and long reads, enhancing contiguity and quality in human and plant genomes.

This paper benchmarks long-read error-correction tools on RNA-sequencing data, finding they improve base-pair accuracy but affect gene family sizes and isoform diversity.

The paper uses nanopore sequencing to assemble a high-quality genome of Solanum pennellii, achieving high gene completeness and structural similarity to a reference genome.

The paper evaluates nanopore-only genome assemblies of yeast isolates using MinION, showing improved contiguity and structural variant detection compared to Illumina-only assemblies.