Manon Chantal de Visser

NewtCap is a target capture method for Salamandridae genomes, effective across multiple lineages but not other salamander families, enabling phylogenomics and conservation studies.

The paper identifies a balanced lethal system in Triturus newts as arising from a single macromutation causing instantaneous speciation.

PAV-spotter identifies presence/absence variation in target capture data by comparing read count distributions between sample classes, revealing structural variants in Triturus newts with low coverage and noise.

The paper investigates the evolutionary history of Triturus chromosome 1, revealing conserved gene content and unique phylogenetic patterns in its balanced lethal system.

The paper introduces mxKASP, a modified KASP method for determining zygosity in diploid organisms, validated using a balanced lethal system in Triturus newts.