Christoph Bleidorn

The paper shows Wolbachia spreads in solitary bees due to a biotin synthesis gene, linking it to nutritional benefits and host diet specialization.

Read-SpaM estimates phylogenetic distances from low-coverage bacterial sequencing reads without assembly or alignment.

Prot-SpaM estimates evolutionary distances between proteomes using alignment-free methods, outperforming other approaches on simulated and real data.