Dayana Elizabeth Salas-Leiva

The paper describes a new anaerobic Legionellales symbiont in Anaeramoeba pumila, highlighting its unique metabolic strategies and genomic features.

This study investigates the evolutionary pathways of anaerobic mitochondrial adaptations in breviate protists by analyzing transcriptomes and predicting MRO proteomes across eight species.

Eukfinder is a pipeline that recovers high-quality eukaryotic microbial genomes from metagenomic data, outperforming existing tools in assembling near-complete genomes without a reference.

The paper investigates mitochondrial reduction in free-living metamonads, finding extreme reduction in some species, including loss of mitochondrial functions and pathways.

The paper sequences four Perkinsus mitochondrial genomes, identifies conserved frameshifts in all genes, and proposes a decoding mechanism involving unused codons.