N. Vega

Identification of conserved gene expression programs activated in multiple modes of torpor across vertebrate clades.

This study identifies conserved gene expression programs in torpor across vertebrates using StrokeofGenus, revealing three transcriptomic states and conserved patterns despite evolutionary divergence.

Maximum Likelihood Estimators For Colony Forming Units

The paper develops methods to estimate Colony Forming Units (CFUs) by linking serial dilution techniques and discusses error bounds and assumptions for various analytical approaches.

Sample pooling inflates error rates in between-sample comparisons: an empirical investigation of the statistical properties of count-based data

The paper investigates how sample pooling affects statistical inference in count-based data, finding that batch-based analysis leads to false positives and negatives in comparisons between groups.

Mucoidy, a general mechanism for maintaining lytic phage in populations of bacteria

The paper shows that mucoidy in E. coli allows lytic phages to persist in bacterial populations through frequent transitions between mucoid and non-mucoid states.

The population and evolutionary dynamics of bacteriophage: Why be temperate revisited

This study uses a mathematical model and experimental tests to determine the evolutionary conditions favoring lytic or temperate phage replication modes in bacterial populations.