Fabrice Legeai

This paper presents a chromosome-level genome assembly and annotation of the pine processionary moth, improving upon previous assemblies and providing resources for population genomics research.

The paper identifies barrier loci across a divergence continuum in pea aphids, showing their clustering in low-recombination regions and enrichment for genes related to host specialization.

Pan1C is a pipeline that builds chromosome-level pangenome graphs, improving alignment and variant calling by integrating multiple strategies and benchmarked across different species.

The paper presents a chromosome-level genome assembly for Ostrinia scapulalis, improving upon previous fragmented assemblies and enabling better comparative genomic studies.

The paper analyzes olfactory and gustatory receptor genes and transposable elements in aphid genomes to understand their evolutionary dynamics and role in host adaptation.

The paper characterizes piRNAs, their biogenesis, and their targets in Spodoptera frugiperda, revealing roles beyond transposable element silencing.

The paper investigates inversion topological motifs in pangenome graphs and finds significant variation in inversion representation across pipelines, with poor recovery in real human data.

This study investigates the role of adaptive and non-adaptive processes in reproductive isolation between two Coenonympha butterfly species using whole genome sequencing and demographic analysis.

This paper presents the first nuclear and mitogenome assemblies for Hylesia metabus, revealing that transposable element accumulation drives genome size increase.

This study identifies a viral gene, U16, essential for genome replication of an ichnovirus in ichneumonid wasps, showing its role in DNA amplification and virion production.

MTG-Link assembles specific loci from linked-read data by leveraging barcode information, improving local assembly and characterizing large insertion variants.

The paper sequenced and analyzed the S. littoralis genome to investigate the expansion mechanisms of gustatory receptors in polyphagous noctuidae, identifying transposable elements and positive selection as potential drivers.

LEVIATHAN is a structural variant caller that improves scalability and applicability across organisms using Linked-Reads data.

MinYS assembles a specific symbiont genome from metagenomic data, achieving high-quality results even with distant references and diverse samples.

The paper presents genome assemblies and analysis of two aphid parasitoid wasps, identifying AT-richness and gene family expansions linked to host interactions and symbiosis.

The paper investigates the role of recent gene duplications in the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum, finding that most duplicates show asymmetric evolution with positive selection and gene expression divergence.

The paper shows symbiotic bracovirus genes have spread to all chromosomes of parasitoid wasps and are stably maintained, with synchronized expression and no immune response.

The paper sequenced two ichneumonid wasp genomes to reveal distinct genomic architectures of endogenous ichnoviruses compared to bracoviruses.

The paper presents the genome of Cephus cinctus, a wheat pest, and analyzes its chemoreceptor evolution, identifying conserved and lineage-specific gene expansions.

This study shows that miR-202 is critical for female fecundity in medaka, as its knockout leads to reduced egg production and fertility.

This study shows that the green peach aphid uses rapid transcriptional changes of duplicated genes to colonize diverse host plants without genetic specialization.

FEELnc annotates long non-coding RNAs and mRNAs in the dog transcriptome, identifying 10,374 novel lncRNAs and 58,640 new mRNA transcripts.