Victor M. Higareda‐Alvear

The paper shows that strain-specific higher-order interactions in microbial communities can override phylogenetic conservatism, demonstrating that strains are not interchangeable even within the same species.

The paper investigates whether heritable endosymbionts affect early embryo mRNA transcriptomes and finds no consistent influence, but detects rRNA depurination consistent with Ribosome Inactivating Proteins.