Iana V. Kim

This study shows that freshwater sponges acquired the microbial gene rquA via lateral gene transfer, enabling rhodoquinone biosynthesis and adaptation to hypoxia.

The paper shows that DNA methylation in Amoebidium appalachense silences endogenized giant viruses, contributing 14% of its genes and revealing a dynamic process of viral integration and purging.

This paper describes a method for efficiently depleting ribosomal RNA from planarian and bacterial RNA samples, improving transcriptome coverage and dynamics.