Harald R. Gruber‐Vodicka

This study identifies a functional lysozyme in placozoans, showing its role in acidic extracellular digestion and tracing its evolutionary origin to a bacterial horizontal gene transfer.

The paper studies Rickettsiales microbiomes in placozoans to reveal evolutionary shifts towards mutualism, finding some symbionts have lost parasitic traits.

This study measures nitrification rates and nitrogen fluxes in a seagrass-sponge association, finding that the sponge supports the seagrass holobiont's nitrogen demand during growth and senescence.

phyloFlash rapidly profiles and assembles SSU rRNA from metagenomes, recovering complete genomes of previously unknown taxa.