Christopher J. R. Turkington

Ratatoskr automates retrieval of bacterial taxonomic type strain sequences and metadata, resolving nomenclature inconsistencies across databases.

This study investigates the role of microbial communities in decay and anatomical character loss, finding that endogenous bacteria dominate and that microbial succession does not control anatomical decay sequences.

hafeZ identifies active prophages in bacterial genomes using read mapping, demonstrating accuracy on known datasets.

The paper shows bacteria use hypermutable loci to generate herd immunity against phage infection by creating resistant sub-populations that block phage spread.