Hüsna Öztoprak

The paper presents the first telomere-anchored genome of a rhizarian, revealing an osmotrophic extracellular digestion strategy similar to saprotrophic fungi.

This study compares the genomes of ancient asexual and sexual oribatid mites, finding that asexual species have streamlined genomes with fewer novel genes compared to their sexual relatives.

The paper identifies haplotypic independence as a mechanism enabling long-term survival of an asexual mite species without sex.

The paper identifies a female-heterogametic ZW sex-determination system in Hermannia gibba, a species of oribatid mite, using genome assembly and allele-frequency analysis.