Luis M. Rodriguez‐R

The paper uses metagenomics to compare microbial communities in coastal and inland hypersaline lakes, finding higher connectivity and allopatric speciation in coastal systems.

This study links genome size to microbial prevalence and community structure in freshwater ecosystems, showing that streamlined genomes promote cosmopolitanism and interdependencies.

The paper defines rare biosphere and generalists using metagenomic and macroecological metrics, showing their roles in microbial resilience to disturbances like tropical cyclones and warming.

The paper shows SAR11 bacteria use promiscuous recombination to form sequence-discrete species with lower ANI thresholds than other microbes.

The paper identifies ecological cohesiveness and homologous recombination as mechanisms maintaining microbial species and genomovars in two bacterial species.

GSearch efficiently searches and classifies microbial or viral genomes using k-mer hashing and HNSW graphs, achieving high speed and accuracy with low memory usage.

The paper introduces an iterative subtractive binning pipeline to recover genomes from freshwater metagenomes, identifying over 400 novel species and their ecological preferences.

The paper introduces GROS, a database of microbial genomes from oiled environments, revealing niche specialization and highlighting the prevalence of novel species in oil-contaminated ecosystems.

FastANI accurately estimates average nucleotide identity (ANI) up to 782-fold faster than BLAST; across 90K prokaryotic genomes, an 83-95% ANI gap supports a 95% species boundary.