Thomas Werner

The paper presents 183 new genome assemblies for 179 drosophilid species using single-fly long-read sequencing, improving phylogenomic coverage and enabling a well-resolved multi-locus phylogeny.

The paper investigates the molecular mechanisms controlling the pigmentation gene yellow in Drosophila guttifera, showing that a single CRM orchestrates complex abdominal patterns through conserved regulatory elements and partial repression of ancestral stripe patterns.

The paper investigates how abdominal spot rows in three Drosophila species evolved by examining mRNA expression patterns of pigmentation genes during pupal development.