Alison Buchan

This study uses global metagenomics to discover new plastid sequences and challenge existing models of plastid evolution in photosynthetic eukaryotes.

The paper identifies viral shunt activity as a driver of seasonal subsurface oxygen maxima in the Sargasso Sea by linking elevated cyanophage activity and bacterial catabolism.

This study shows that prophage induction states in marine bacteria influence biofilm structure and competitive outcomes, revealing synergistic effects in co-cultures through phage-mediated interactions.

This study re-examines the relationship between virus and microbial cell abundances in the ocean, finding that virus-to-prokaryote ratios vary nonlinearly and are better described by power-law functions than fixed ratios.