Alexander S. T. Papadopulos

The paper investigates factors influencing the retention of laterally acquired genes in plants, finding that regulatory compatibility and expression similarity to donors increase persistence.

This study shows ancestral plasticity to salt helped Silene uniflora adapt to zinc in mine-waste environments, demonstrating past-cue plasticity's role in rapid adaptation to novel habitats.

The paper shows that high average heterozygosity in adders may mask severe genetic erosion due to recent bottlenecks, suggesting whole-genome sequencing is better for assessing genetic risk.

The paper presents a chromosome-scale genome of the Mongolian gerbil with sequenced centromeres, revealing new insights into centromere structure and heterochromatin distribution.

The paper analyzes genome rearrangements in six rodent genomes and finds no strong correlation between breakpoint regions and previously proposed genomic features, suggesting alternative explanations for karyotypic evolution.

This paper introduces R4IDs, a method using long-read sequencing to rapidly generate reference datasets for species identification, validated with plant species and simulations.