Jeng-Yi Li

This study presents a corallimorpharian genome and single-cell transcriptomes to show that coral calcification evolved through a derived calicoblast cell state and genomic innovations.

This paper discovers aromatase-independent estrogenesis in an anaerobic bacterium, suggesting the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway may have contributed to the emergence of estrogens in the biosphere.

The paper adapts the phiC31 integrase system for C. elegans to enable efficient transgene integration and chromosomal inversion.

The paper sequenced genomes of five bioluminescent Mycena fungi to study the evolution of luciferase clusters and bioluminescence, finding that the trait originated in a common ancestor and was lost in some lineages.