Dimitrios ‐ Georgios Kontopoulos

The paper examines gene-level convergence in placental mammals during evolutionary shifts in torpor and finds that individual genes have low explanatory power, while pathway-level convergence is slightly stronger.

This study presents seven reference genomes of side-necked turtles, revealing chromosomal dynamics, sex chromosome evolution, and molecular mechanisms underlying skeletal innovation and cancer resistance.

The paper tests ancestral diet in Phyllostomidae bats using phylogenetic models, finding support for ancestral omnivory and early evolution of fruit feeding.

This study identifies that increased flexibility, not compactness, underlies thermal adaptation in prokaryotic adenylate kinases across 70 species.

This study examines the evolutionary patterns of dormancy across 1,338 endotherms and finds it is part of a continuum with weak associations to physiological and environmental traits.

The paper compares 83 thermal performance curve models across traits and taxa to identify which models perform best under different conditions.

TOGA integrates gene annotation and orthology inference across hundreds of genomes, improving ortholog detection and creating large comparative gene resources.