Publications

Lukashanets, D., Iakovenko, N., Fontaneto, D., Devetter, M., Janko, K., Ejsmont-Karabin, J., Bielańska-Grajner, I., Hallet, B., & et al. (2025). New data on limno-terrestrial rotifers of the world. Biodiversity Data Journal, 13, e171929. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.13.e171929 (Original work published 2025)

Nicolas, E., Simion, P., Guérineau, M., Terwagne, M., Colinet, M., Virgo, J., Lingurski, M., Boutsen, A., Dieu, M., Hallet, B., & Van Doninck, K. (2023). Horizontal acquisition of a DNA ligase improves DNA damage tolerance in eukaryotes. Nature Communications, 14(1), 7638. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43075-8 (Original work published 2023)

Hespeels, B., Fontaneto, D., Cornet, V., Penninckx, S., Berthe, J., Bruneau, L., Larrick, J. W., Rapport, E., Bailly, J., Debortoli, N., Iakovenko, N., Janko, K., Heuskin, A.-C., Lucas, S., Hallet, B., & Van Doninck, K. (2023). Back to the roots, desiccation and radiation resistances are ancestral characters in bdelloid rotifers. BMC Biology, 21(1), 72. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-023-01554-w (Original work published 2023)

Fernandez, M., Shkumatov, A. V., Liu, Y., Stulemeijer, C., Derclaye, S., Efremov, R. G., Hallet, B., & Alsteens, D. (2023). AFM-based force spectroscopy unravels stepwise formation of the DNA transposition complex in the widespread Tn3 family mobile genetic elements. Nucleic acids research, 51(10), 4929-4941. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkad241 (Original work published 2023)

Terwagne, M., Nicolas, E., Hespeels, B., Herter, L., Virgo, J., Demazy, C., Heuskin, A.-C., Hallet, B., & Van Doninck, K. (2022). DNA repair during nonreductional meiosis in the asexual rotifer . Science advances, 8(48), eadc8829. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adc8829 (Original work published 2022)

Shkumatov, A. V., Aryanpour, N., Oger, C., Goossens Jérome, Hallet, B., & Efremov, R. G. (2022). Structural insight into Tn3 family transposition mechanism. Nature Communications, 13(1), 6155. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33871-z (Original work published 2022)

Simion, P., Narayan, J., Houtain, A., Derzelle, A., Baudry, L., Nicolas, E., Arora, R., Cariou, M., Cruaud, C., Gaudray, F. R., Gilbert, C., Guiglielmoni, N., Hespeels, B., Kozlowski, D. K. L., Labadie, K., Limasset, A., Llirós, M., Marbouty, M., Terwagne, M., et al. (2021). Chromosome-level genome assembly reveals homologous chromosomes and recombination in asexual rotifer . Science advances, 7(41), eabg4216. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abg4216 (Original work published 2021)

Lima Mendez, G., Oliveira Alvarenga, D., Ross, K., Hallet, B., Van Melderen, L., Varani, A. M., Chandler, M., & Buchrieser, C. (2020). Toxin-Antitoxin Gene Pairs Found in Tn3 Family Transposons Appear To Be an Integral Part of the Transposition Module. mBio, 11(2), 2. https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.00452-20 (Original work published 2020)