Diane P. Genereux

TL;DR: A large number of mammals that can potentially be infected by SARS-CoV-2 via their ACE2 proteins are identified to assist the identification of intermediate hosts for Sars-Cov-2 and hence reduce the opportunity for a future outbreak of COVID-19.

TL;DR: Progressive Cactus as discussed by the authors is a reference-free multiple genome alignment program that enables the alignment of tens to thousands of large vertebrate genomes while maintaining high alignment quality, which is the largest multiple vertebrate genome alignment created so far.

TL;DR: It is found that regions of reduced genetic diversity are more abundant in species at a high risk of extinction, discern signals of evolutionary selection at high resolution and provide insights from individual reference genomes.

TL;DR: Molecule encoding was used to obtain validated, individual-molecule data on failed- and inappropriate-conversion frequencies for LowMT and HighMT treatments of both single-stranded and hairpin-linked oligonucleotides, finding that the HighMT treatment is preferable because it yields greater homogeneity among sites and among molecules in conversion rates, and thus yields more reliable data.

TL;DR: The multifaceted, physiological response described here may be of importance to the general understanding of pollinator health, as muscles work at high glycolytic rates and flight performance could be impacted should low levels of this evolutionarily novel stressor likewise induce downregulation of energy metabolising genes in adult pollinators.