C. J. E. Metcalf

The paper tests how microbial transmission between same- and different-species plants affects microbiome specialization, finding that conspecific transmission leads to more specialized microbiomes.

This paper shows that using relative abundance data to estimate microbiome heritability can lead to imprecise, overestimated, and biased results due to taxon interdependencies, large sample sizes, and microbial co-abundances.

This study shows that plant neighborhood influences phyllosphere microbiome diversity and reduces interspecific variation over time.

This study examines how life history and epidemiology interact to shape optimal immune strategy using a demographic model of parasite recognition and response.

The paper shows that intermediate vertical microbiome transmission can be adaptive in fluctuating environments by increasing phenotypic variability in offspring.

This paper explores how microbiome interactions influence host ontogenetic timing through evolutionary theory and potential applications in agriculture and disease control.

The paper shows that successive passaging of a tomato phyllosphere microbiome can select for a stable, host genotype-dependent community that resists invasion by the original community.