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Overview

Robert M. Waterhouse is affiliated with the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics in Switzerland. Their research spans multiple disciplines within biological sciences, emphasizing biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, alongside agricultural and biological sciences.

The primary fields of study include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these areas, the scientist has contributed extensively to subfields such as molecular biology, insect science, genetics, ecology, and evolutionary behavior and systematics.

  • Molecular Biology
  • Insect Science
  • Genetics
  • Ecology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

The research interests cover a variety of topics related to insect biology and genomics, as well as biodiversity and ecological studies. Key topics of work include:

  • Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
  • Genomics and phylogenetic studies
  • Insect and arachnid ecology and behavior
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Environmental DNA in biodiversity studies
  • Genetic diversity and population structure

Robert M. Waterhouse has coauthored numerous publications with frequent collaborators including Maarten Reijnders, Panagiotis Ioannidis, Hugh M. Robertson, Joshua B. Benoit, and Evgeny M. Zdobnov.

The scientist's work has appeared predominantly in several key venues known for biological and genomic research. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • BMC Biology
  • F1000Research
  • Faculty of 1000 Research Ltd
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution

Among recent papers by Robert M. Waterhouse are:

  • How genomics can help biodiversity conservation, 2023, Trends in Genetics
  • Gene content evolution in the arthropods, 2020, Genome Biology
  • Enhanced genome assembly and a new official gene set for Tribolium castaneum, 2020, BMC Genomics
  • Summary Visualizations of Gene Ontology Terms With GO-Figure!, 2021, Frontiers in Bioinformatics
  • Genus-Wide Characterization of Bumblebee Genomes Provides Insights into Their Evolution and Variation in Ecological and Behavioral Traits, 2020, Molecular Biology and Evolution

Best Publications

  • BUSCO: assessing genome assembly and annotation completeness with single-copy orthologs

    Felipe A. Simão;Robert M. Waterhouse;Panagiotis Ioannidis;Evgenia V. Kriventseva

  • BUSCO Applications from Quality Assessments to Gene Prediction and Phylogenomics.

    Robert M Waterhouse;Mathieu Seppey;Felipe A Simão;Mosè Manni

  • The genome of the model beetle and pest Tribolium castaneum.

    Stephen Richards;Richard A. Gibbs;George M. Weinstock;Susan J. Brown

  • Functional and evolutionary insights from the genomes of three parasitoid Nasonia species.

    John H. Werren;Stephen Richards;Christopher A. Desjardins;Oliver Niehuis

  • Evolutionary Dynamics of Immune-Related Genes and Pathways in Disease-Vector Mosquitoes

    Robert M. Waterhouse;Evgenia V. Kriventseva;Stephan Meister;Zhiyong Xi

  • Extensive introgression in a malaria vector species complex revealed by phylogenomics

    Michael C. Fontaine;James B. Pease;Aaron Steele;Robert M. Waterhouse

  • Genome sequences of the human body louse and its primary endosymbiont provide insights into the permanent parasitic lifestyle

    Ewen F. Kirkness;Brian J. Haas;Brian J. Haas;Weilin Sun;Henk R. Braig

  • Highly evolvable malaria vectors: The genomes of 16 Anopheles mosquitoes

    Daniel E. Neafsey;Robert M. Waterhouse;Mohammad R. Abai;Sergey S. Aganezov

  • Sequencing of Culex quinquefasciatus Establishes a Platform for Mosquito Comparative Genomics

    Peter Arensburger;Karine Megy;Robert M Waterhouse;Robert M Waterhouse;Jenica Abrudan

  • Genomic insights into the Ixodes scapularis tick vector of Lyme disease

    Monika Gulia-Nuss;Monika Gulia-Nuss;Andrew B. Nuss;Andrew B. Nuss;Jason M. Meyer;Jason M. Meyer;Daniel E. Sonenshine

  • Finding the missing honey bee genes: Lessons learned from a genome upgrade

    Christine G Elsik;Christine G Elsik;Kim C Worley;Anna K Bennett;Martin Beye

  • OrthoDB v9.1: cataloging evolutionary and functional annotations for animal, fungal, plant, archaeal, bacterial and viral orthologs

    Evgeny M. Zdobnov;Fredrik Tegenfeldt;Dmitry Kuznetsov;Robert M. Waterhouse

  • Genomic signatures of evolutionary transitions from solitary to group living

    Karen M. Kapheim;Karen M. Kapheim;Hailin Pan;Cai Li;Steven L. Salzberg;Steven L. Salzberg

  • OrthoDB: a hierarchical catalog of animal, fungal and bacterial orthologs

    Robert M. Waterhouse;Fredrik Tegenfeldt;Jia Li;Evgeny M. Zdobnov

  • The genomes of two key bumblebee species with primitive eusocial organization

    Ben M Sadd;Ben M Sadd;Seth M Barribeau;Seth M Barribeau;Guy Bloch;Dirk C. de Graaf

  • Phylogenomics and the evolution of hemipteroid insects.

    Kevin P. Johnson;Christopher H. Dietrich;Frank Friedrich;Rolf G. Beutel

  • Cellodextrin Transport in Yeast for Improved Biofuel Production

    Jonathan M. Galazka;Chaoguang Tian;Chaoguang Tian;William T. Beeson;Bruno Martinez

  • Genome of Rhodnius prolixus, an insect vector of Chagas disease, reveals unique adaptations to hematophagy and parasite infection

    Rafael D. Mesquita;Raquel J. Vionette-Amaral;Carl Lowenberger;Rolando Rivera-Pomar

  • OrthoDB v8: update of the hierarchical catalog of orthologs and the underlying free software

    Evgenia V. Kriventseva;Evgenia V. Kriventseva;Fredrik Tegenfeldt;Fredrik Tegenfeldt;Tom J. Petty;Tom J. Petty;Robert M. Waterhouse;Robert M. Waterhouse

  • Highly evolvable malaria vectors: The genomes of 16 Anopheles mosquitoes

    Robert Waterhouse;Clara Sophia Chan;Irwin Jungreis;Eva Maria Novoa Pardo

Frequent Co-Authors

Evgeny M. Zdobnov
Evgeny M. Zdobnov Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Hugh M. Robertson
Hugh M. Robertson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stephen Richards
Stephen Richards South Australian Museum
Donna M. Muzny
Donna M. Muzny Baylor College of Medicine
Kim C. Worley
Kim C. Worley Baylor College of Medicine
Richard A. Gibbs
Richard A. Gibbs Baylor College of Medicine
John H. Werren
John H. Werren University of Rochester
Erich Bornberg-Bauer
Erich Bornberg-Bauer University of Münster
Matthew T. Weirauch
Matthew T. Weirauch Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

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