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Alexander Donath’s indexed work centers on mitochondrial genome annotation and phylogenomics in metazoans. His most-cited first-author contribution, the 2019 *Nucleic Acids Research* paper on improved annotation of protein-coding gene boundaries in metazoan mitochondrial genomes (826 citations), established a widely used methodological framework. He also led work on split-inducing indels in phylogenomic analysis (2018, *Algorithms for Molecular Biology*), addressing a technical challenge in sequence alignment, and served as senior author on a transcriptomics-based study of cladobranch sea slug relationships (2021, *BMC Ecology and Evolution*), applying phylogenomic tools to molluscan systematics. Donath contributed as a middle author to several landmark phylogenomic consortia, including the 2014 *Science* paper on the timing and pattern of insect evolution (2,870 citations) and the 2017 *Current Biology* study on evolutionary history of the Hymenoptera (955 citations). He also co-authored the widely used MITOS tool for de novo metazoan mitochondrial genome annotation (2012, *Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution*, 5,529 citations). Across these works, Donath’s research consistently bridges computational method development—particularly for mitochondrial genomics—with large-scale phylogenetic inference across insects, mollusks, and other bilaterians.
Matthias Bernt, Alexander Donath, Frank Jühling, Fabian Externbrink, Catherine Florentz, Guido Fritzsch, Joern Pütz, Martin Middendorf, Peter F Stadler
Bernhard Misof, Shanlin Liu, Karen Meusemann, Ralph S Peters, Alexander Donath, Christoph Mayer, Paul B Frandsen
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Ralph S Peters, Lars Krogmann, Christoph Mayer, Alexander Donath, Simon Gunkel, Karen Meusemann, Alexey Kozlov, Lars Podsiadlowski, Malte Petersen, Robert Lanfear, Patricia A Diez, John Heraty, Karl M Kjer, Seraina Klopfstein, Rudolf Meier, Carlo Polidori, Thomas Schmitt, Shanlin Liu, Xin Zhou, Torsten Wappler, Jes Rust, Bernhard Misof, Oliver Niehuis
Alexander Donath, Frank Jühling, Marwa Al-Arab, Stephan H Bernhart, Franziska Reinhardt, Peter F Stadler, Martin Middendorf, Matthias Bernt
Duane D McKenna, Seunggwan Shin, Dirk Ahrens, Michael Balke, Cristian Beza-Beza, Dave J Clarke, Alexander Donath, Hermes E Escalona, Frank Friedrich, Harald Letsch, Shanlin Liu, David Maddison, Christoph Mayer, Bernhard Misof, Peyton J Murin, Oliver Niehuis, Ralph S Peters, Lars Podsiadlowski, Hans Pohl, Erin D Scully, Evgeny V Yan, Xin Zhou, Adam Ślipiński, Rolf G Beutel