O. Kosterlitz

Evolution of a Plasmid Regulatory Circuit Ameliorates Plasmid Fitness Cost

This study shows that inactivating the upf31 gene in a plasmid improves its maintenance in E. coli by altering gene regulation, demonstrating how plasmid evolution can affect host range.

Evolutionary crowdsourcing: alignment of fitness landscapes allows cross-species adaptation of a horizontally transferred gene

The paper examines how horizontal gene transfer affects gene evolution across species by aligning fitness landscapes and shows that adaptive evolution in one species can translate to another.

The cost of information acquisition by natural selection

This paper challenges Kimura's theory on the cost of information acquisition by natural selection using experimental evolution of E. coli and computational learning theory.

Estimating the rate of plasmid transfer with an adapted Luria-Delbrück fluctuation analysis

This paper introduces a new method to estimate plasmid transfer rates between bacterial cells, showing it is more accurate than existing methods.