Warren Russell Francis

The paper uses environmental DNA to assess eukaryotic diversity and community patterns in the Northern Red Sea, finding that eDNA captures broader diversity and fine-scale spatial structuring not fully explained by benthic composition.

The paper examines genomic changes in 22 congeneric animal species pairs, finding varied synteny conservation patterns and no universal genomic change path during speciation.

The paper provides metagenomic data and preliminary genome assemblies for the sponge Halichondria panicea and its microbial symbionts, highlighting the limitations of current sequencing approaches.

The paper identifies 18 cell types in sponges, including neuroid cells with synaptic gene expression, suggesting early neuro-immune system evolution.

This paper presents the first complete draft genome of the octocoral Renilla muelleri using a hybrid de novo assembly, providing a resource for studying gene evolution in Anthozoa.

This paper uses taxogenomics to identify a new genus and species in Placozoa based on genome comparisons.

The paper analyzes genome composition across 68 animal species, finding comparable intron-to-intergenic ratios and suggesting underannotation in non-model organisms.

A 125-megabase draft genome of the contractile demosponge Tethya wilhelma reveals extensive lineage-specific expansions, losses, and domain rearrangements across early metazoan neural signaling gene families.