Lin Zhang

This study constructs a nuclear phylogeny of grasses using genome-scale data, showing agreement with plastome phylogeny and evidence for repeated reticulation events.

This paper introduces MicrobiomeCensus, an algorithm to estimate human population size from sewage samples using microbial taxon abundance distributions, showing it outperforms generic algorithms in simulations and field data.

The paper reports a high-quality genome assembly of Bremia lactucae and identifies heterokaryosis as a source of somatic hybrid vigor in this oomycete pathogen.