Namratha Raj

Genomic signatures of asymmetric selection on membrane and cytoplasmic proteins.

The paper examines genomic variation in membrane and cytoplasmic proteins across E. coli and S. cerevisiae, finding higher non-synonymous variation and lower synonymous variation in membrane proteins.

Facultative Cheating and Hybrid Vigor Resolves Cooperator-Cheater Conflict in a Yeast Public Goods System.

The paper shows that facultative cheating and hybrid vigor resolve cooperator-cheater conflict in a yeast public goods system by enabling phenotypic flexibility through hybridization.

Variations and predictability of epistasis on an intragenic fitness landscape.

The paper analyzes epistasis in an E. coli gene's fitness landscape, showing that pairwise epistasis is fluid and binary, with most mutations lacking strong global patterns.