Timothy G. Barraclough

Changes in flexibility but not in compactness underlie the thermal adaptation of prokaryotic adenylate kinases

This study identifies that increased flexibility, not compactness, underlies thermal adaptation in prokaryotic adenylate kinases across 70 species.

Detecting and quantifying rare sex in natural populations

This paper develops a framework to detect and quantify sexual reproduction in populations by addressing biases in genomic data analysis, using ancestral recombination graphs and simulation models.

Historical genomics reveals the evolutionary mechanisms behind multiple outbreaks of the host-specific coffee wilt pathogen Fusarium xylarioides

This study uses historical genome sequencing to show how two populations of Fusarium xylarioides evolved similar pathogenic traits through horizontal gene transfer from other Fusarium species.