Kirsten M. Müller

The paper characterizes the seasonal dynamics of cell-associated viral communities in Big Turkey Lake, identifies their functional roles through auxiliary metabolic genes, and reconstructs viral genomes.

The paper reannotates the genome of the jumbo cyanophage PhiMa05, revealing it encodes multiple ribosomal proteins and related genes, suggesting horizontal gene transfer to host bacteria.

The paper applies statistical methods from quantitative microbiology to improve diversity analysis of amplicon sequencing data by addressing random error and model limitations.

The paper evaluates the use of repeated rarefying to normalize amplicon sequencing data for microbial community diversity analysis, showing its utility in representing sequence proportions and characterizing rarefaction effects.