Simon Penel

This study shows that ciliates can break species barriers through recurrent horizontal gene transfer from highly divergent lineages, resulting in viable offspring.

The paper studies the pseudoautosomal boundary (PAB) evolution in strepsirrhine primates and finds it has remained stable, unlike in haplorrhines where PAB shifts occurred due to recombination suppression.

Treerecs is a phylogenetic software that performs duplication-loss reconciliation to root gene trees and correct alignment uncertainties.