Paschalis Natsidis

The paper integrates phylogenomics and functional annotations to trace gene function evolution across species, revealing convergent adaptations in multicellular and terrestrial transitions.

The paper investigates whether deuterostome monophyly is supported by systematic errors, finding strong support under certain conditions and ambiguity when errors are mitigated.

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.

The paper identifies a hidden break in 28S rRNA across eukaryotes, showing its presence in protostomes and rare occurrence in vertebrates and non-animal eukaryotes, with implications for RNA Integrity Numbers.