Roland C. Wilhelm

The paper tests the 'anvil effect' hypothesis by showing that surface-adherent bacteria are preferentially lysed during mechanical extraction, leading to DNA yield bias.

The paper introduces SIPdb, a database and analysis tool for linking microbial amplicon sequences to metabolic activity using SIP data, showing it recovers 70.1% of reported incorporators and validates known degraders.

The paper introduces a data standard (MISIP) to improve reproducibility and reuse of stable isotope probing (SIP) sequencing data by defining essential metadata fields.

The paper reassesses the association between densoviruses and Sea Star Wasting Syndrome by analyzing metagenomic and transcriptomic data, finding SSaDV is one of many densoviruses present in sea stars, not the sole cause of the syndrome.

The paper uses SIP and metagenomics to identify lignin-degrading microbes in forest soils, finding bacteria specialize in lignin degradation while fungi focus on cellulose.