There has been a recent explosion of research within the field of microbial ecology that has
been fueled, in part, by methodological improvements that make it feasible to characterize …

Suitable conditions for species to survive and reproduce constitute their ecological niche,
which is built by abiotic conditions and interactions with conspecifics and heterospecifics …

Interest in host-associated microbiomes has skyrocketed recently, yet our ability to explain
microbiome variation has remained stubbornly low. Considering scales of interaction …

Very little is known about the structure of microbial communities, despite their abundance
and importance to ecosystem processes. Recent work suggests that bacterial biodiversity …

Recently, microbiologists have established the existence of biogeographic patterns among a
wide range of microorganisms. The focus of the field is now shifting to identifying the …

We apply an evolutionary game theoretic approach to the evolution of dispersal in explicitly
spatial metacommunities, using a flexible parametric class of dispersal kernels, namely 2Dt …

Population genomics has emerged as a valuable tool to define and delimit species and to
understand the mechanisms that drive and maintain speciation. Species and speciation …

Many bacterial and archaeal lineages have a history of extensive and ongoing horizontal
gene transfer and loss, as evidenced by the large differences in genome content even …

Although most models conceptualize a metacommunity as a collection of habitat patches
embedded in a matrix that is not hospitable to life, new applications of metacommunity …

Studying within-species variation has traditionally been limited to culturable bacterial
isolates and low-resolution microbial community fingerprinting. Metagenomic sequencing …