Àlex Gàlvez-Morante

This study analyzes gene functional repertoires across Amoebozoa, Fungi, and Metazoa to reveal distinct evolutionary trajectories, showing Amoebozoa retained ancestral gene functions while Fungi and Metazoa specialized in metabolism and multicellularity.

The paper examines two new loricate choanoflagellate strains that show morphological discrepancies with their genetic relatives, challenging current taxonomic classifications based on morphology.

The paper describes two new Telonemia species, highlights morphological and phylogenetic differences, and provides insights into their biology and evolutionary significance.

This study shows protists have stronger and more recent oceanic genetic structure than Archaeplastida and Metazoa, suggesting human-mediated dispersal influences their distribution.

The paper introduces eKOI, a curated mitochondrial COI gene database to improve taxonomic resolution in metabarcoding, revealing new biodiversity in protists.

This study compares Dollo parsimony and maximum likelihood methods for ancestral gene content reconstruction, finding Dollo parsimony overestimates ancestral gene content, especially near the root of the tree.