BELLIARDO , Carole

Plant-parasitic nematodes (PPN) are among the most important crop pests and threaten the world's food production. Besides the need to understand their biology to develop new control strategies, they are fascinating organisms in terms of genomic evolution. Plant parasitism has evolved several times independently in nematodes with some convergent...

We provide an overview of the currently known diversity of viral sequences integrated into insect genomes. Such endogenous viral elements (EVE) have so far been annotated in at least eight insect orders and can be assigned to at least three families of large double-stranded (ds) DNA viruses, at least 22 families of RNA viruses, and three...

During the last decades, metagenomics has highlighted the diversity of microorganisms from environmental or host-associated samples. Most metagenomics public repositories use annotation pipelines tailored for prokaryotes regardless of the taxonomic origin of contigs. Consequently, eukaryotic contigs with intrinsically different gene features,...

The soil microbiome remains poorly understood, but unraveling its genetic diversity is essential, given the pivotal functions primarily mediated through their protein arsenal [1]. Although short-read (SR) shotgun metagenomics provided interesting insights into microbiome gene diversity, it fell short in delivering comprehensive microbial...