Jana S. Huisman

The paper challenges the traditional r-K trade-off theory by showing a positive correlation between growth rate and carrying capacity in microbes, with implications for community assembly and species coexistence.

The paper shows that microbial communities maintain growth under stress by shifting towards species with higher growth rates, using experiments and modeling.

The paper examines F-like plasmid transfer potential in E. coli from poultry, bovine, and swine environments, finding higher functional completeness in poultry-associated plasmids.

The paper compares sequencing and assembly methods' impact on plasmid and chromosomal phylogenies and horizontal gene transfer inference in E. coli.