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  1. Side-necked turtle genomes reveal chromosomal dynamics, skeletal innovation and cancer resistance

    Article • March 2026, openRxiv

    Dr Dimitrios Georgios Kontopoulos

  2. Toward a general understanding of thermal performance curves in biology

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2025, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Dimitrios Georgios Kontopoulos

  3. Comparative genomics indicate multiple genetic routes to the evolution of torpor in placental mammals

    Article • November 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Dimitrios Georgios Kontopoulos

  4. Changes in flexibility but not in compactness underlie the thermal adaptation of prokaryotic adenylate kinases

    Article • Evolution Letters, August 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Dimitrios Georgios Kontopoulos

  5. Comprehensive phylogenetic trait estimations support ancestral omnivory in the ecologically diverse bat family Phyllostomidae

    Article • Evolution, August 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Dimitrios Georgios Kontopoulos

  6. Bat genomes illuminate adaptations to viral tolerance and disease resistance

    Article • Nature, January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Dimitrios Georgios Kontopoulos

  7. Numerous independent gains of daily torpor and hibernation across endotherms, linked with adaptation to diverse environments

    Article • Functional Ecology, January 2025, Wiley

    Dr Dimitrios Georgios Kontopoulos

  8. No universal mathematical model for thermal performance curves across traits and taxonomic groups

    Article • Nature Communications, October 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Dimitrios Georgios Kontopoulos

  9. Changes in flexibility but not in compactness underlie the thermal adaptation of prokaryotic adenylate kinases

    Article • September 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Dimitrios Georgios Kontopoulos

  10. Variation in temperature of peak trait performance constrains adaptation of arthropod populations to climatic warming

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Dimitrios Georgios Kontopoulos

  11. Integrating gene annotation with orthology inference at scale

    Article • Science, April 2023, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Dimitrios Georgios Kontopoulos

  12. Reference-quality bat genomes illuminate adaptations to viral tolerance and disease resistance

    Article • February 2023, Research Square

    Dr Dimitrios Georgios Kontopoulos

  13. Variation in temperature of peak trait performance constrains adaptation of arthropod populations to climatic warming

    Article • January 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Dimitrios Georgios Kontopoulos

  14. Latent functional diversity may accelerate microbial community responses to temperature fluctuations

    Article • eLife, November 2022, eLife

    Dr Dimitrios Georgios Kontopoulos

  15. TOGA integrates gene annotation with orthology inference at scale

    Article • September 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Dimitrios Georgios Kontopoulos

  16. Metabolic plasticity can amplify ecosystem responses to global warming

    Article • Nature Communications, April 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Dimitrios Georgios Kontopoulos

  17. Latent functional diversity may accelerate microbial community responses to temperature fluctuations

    Article • April 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Dimitrios Georgios Kontopoulos

  18. The thermal sensitivity of microbes has often changed dramatically over their evolutionary history

    Article • PLoS Biology, October 2020, PLOS

    Dr Dimitrios Georgios Kontopoulos

  19. Higher temperatures worsen the effects of mutations on protein stability

    Article • October 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Dimitrios Georgios Kontopoulos

  20. Phytoplankton thermal responses adapt in the absence of hard thermodynamic constraints

    Article • Evolution, March 2020, Wiley

    Dr Dimitrios Georgios Kontopoulos

  21. Adaptive evolution shapes the present-day distribution of the thermal sensitivity of population growth rate

    Article • July 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Dimitrios Georgios Kontopoulos

  22. Phytoplankton thermal responses adapt in the absence of hard thermodynamic constraints

    Article • October 2018, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Dimitrios Georgios Kontopoulos

  23. Role of carbon allocation efficiency in the temperature dependence of autotroph growth rates

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2018, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Dimitrios Georgios Kontopoulos

  24. Recruitment of ubiquitin-activating enzyme UBA1 to DNA by poly(ADP-ribose) promotes ATR signalling

    Article • Life Science Alliance, June 2018, Life Science Alliance, LLC

    Dr Dimitrios Georgios Kontopoulos

  25. Use and misuse of temperature normalisation in meta-analyses of thermal responses of biological traits

    Article • PeerJ, February 2018, PeerJ

    Dr Dimitrios Georgios Kontopoulos

  26. Towards a theoretically informed policy against a rakghoul plague outbreak

    Article • The Medical Journal of Australia, December 2017, Australasian Medical Publishing Co. Pty Ltd. (AMPCo)

    Dr Dimitrios Georgios Kontopoulos

  27. Use and misuse of temperature normalisation in meta-analyses of thermal responses of biological traits

    Article • July 2017, PeerJ

    Dr Dimitrios Georgios Kontopoulos

  28. Structuprint: a scalable and extensible tool for two-dimensional representation of protein surfaces

    Article • BMC Structural Biology, February 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Dimitrios Georgios Kontopoulos

  29. Adult Kawasaki disease in a European patient: a case report and review of the literature

    Article • Journal of Medical Case Reports, April 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Dimitrios Georgios Kontopoulos

  30. Pinda: A Web service for detection and analysis of intraspecies gene duplication events

    Article • Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, September 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Dimitrios Georgios Kontopoulos

  31. Space Constrained Homology Modelling: The Paradigm of the RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase of Dengue (Type II) Virus

    Article • Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, January 2013, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Dr Dimitrios Georgios Kontopoulos