Plasmids are key disseminators of antimicrobial resistance genes and virulence factors, and
it is therefore critical to predict and reduce plasmid spread within microbial communities. The …

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes are often carried on broad host range plasmids, and
the spread of AMR within microbial communities will therefore depend on the structure of …

Random Forests (RFs) are at the cutting edge of supervised machine learning in terms of
prediction performance, especially in genomics. Iterative RFs (iRFs) use a tree ensemble …

Natural transformation is a process where bacteria actively take up DNA from the
environment and recombine it into their genome or reconvert it into extra-chromosomal …

ABSTRACT Bacteriophages (“phages”) are hypothesized to be key drivers of bacterial
population dynamics, driving microbial community composition, but empirical support for this …

Adaptation of replicate microbial communities frequently produces shared trajectories of
community composition and structure. However, divergent adaptation of individual …

Anthropogenic activities expose many ecosystems to multiple novel disturbances
simultaneously. Despite this, how biodiversity responds to simultaneous disturbances …

Invasions are commonly found to benefit from disturbance events. However, the importance
of the relative timing of the invasion and disturbance for invader success and impact on …

Plasmids are key disseminators of antimicrobial resistance genes and virulence factors, and
it is therefore critical to predict and reduce plasmid spread within microbial communities. The …

Natural transformation is a process whereby bacteria actively take up free DNA from the
environment while in a physiological state termed competence. Uptaken DNA is then …