Happy to share the final version of our paper on recombination & gene flow in the human gut microbiome. Heroic effort by @zzzhiru.bsky.social getting it over the finish line (>40 SI figures!) If you're interested the interplay between recombination & selection in the gut, Zhiru is the one to ask!
Excited (and relieved!) to share that my 1st paper in grad school finally came out in PLOS Biology! We were motivated by a very basic question: how fast, really, do bacteria exchange DNA in the human gut? (1/n)
Recombination is a ubiquitous force in bacterial evolution, but its dynamics are poorly characterized in many natural populations. This study presents a metagenomic approach for quantifying the landsc...
Congrats to you and @zzzhiru.bsky.social !
Yikes 40+ supp figures!! I promise I was not a reviewer…