Alexandra Walling

This study investigates the distribution of the photosynthetic gene cluster in Erythrobacteraceae using genomic and phylogenetic analysis, finding horizontal operon transfer as the best explanation for its patchy distribution.

The paper examines how temperature affects microbial growth optimization and shows that genomic signatures of growth optimization better predict ecological roles than maximum growth rates.

This study uses machine learning to predict locus phylogenetic utility, improving topological accuracy and statistical support by filtering out noisy loci from phylogenomic datasets.