Guillaume Achaz

The paper develops a method to detect recombination breakpoints and signs of human-made manipulation in viral sequences, finding no evidence of such manipulation in SARS-CoV-1, MERS-CoV, or SARS-CoV-2.

The paper introduces Blockbuster, a program that infers recent population demography from genome-wide SFS, achieving theoretical limits and outperforming existing methods.

The paper shows repeated loss of mating-type switching in yeast led to heterothallism, polyploidy, and increased heterozygosity across diverse environments.

This paper presents a stochastic model showing that intermediate phenotypic plasticity can enhance evolutionary rescue by balancing the acceleration of adaptation and the reduction of mutant fitness advantage.

This study uses modern and ancient DNA data to show that Madagascar turtle doves colonized Mauritius and Reunion independently from Madagascar before human arrival, challenging historical accounts of human-induced demographic collapse.

This study presents a chromosome-level genome assembly for the European Green Woodpecker, Picus viridis, using short and long-read sequencing combined with Hi-C scaffolding.

The paper presents an improved genome assembly for Margaritifera margaritifera using long-read and short-read sequencing, resulting in a more contiguous and accurate reference genome.

This paper shows that cultural transmission of reproductive success affects genomic diversity, coalescent tree topologies, and demographic inferences by altering effective population size and distorting tree structures.

The paper introduces MolD, an algorithm to identify diagnostic nucleotide characters from monolocus DNA datasets, showing that redundant DNCs improve diagnosis robustness even with limited taxon sampling.

The paper derives the conditional Site Frequency Spectrum for a genomic region linked to a focal mutation and presents formulas for neutrality tests in non-recombining regions.

The paper shows that quiescence in fission yeast leads to mutation accumulation equivalent to one DNA replication round, revealing a new evolutionary force.

The paper decomposes the site frequency spectrum into components of tree topology and waiting times, showing their impact on neutrality tests like Tajima's D and Fay and Wu's H.