Jonathan L. Klassen

This paper characterizes abaecin-2, a hymenopteran HDP with copper-binding properties that can inhibit or protect bacteria depending on context.

The paper isolates and characterizes two mollicute symbionts from fungus-growing ants, revealing genome reduction and host specialization.

The paper identifies quality biases in ITS2 metabarcoding that reduce specific fungal taxa abundances and recommends sliding window trimming to mitigate these biases.

The paper maps chemical modifications in an ant fungus garden as plant material passes through, revealing its role in nutrient uptake.

MASST enables querying of public small-molecule tandem MS data to discover molecular relationships in metabolomics and natural product datasets.

The paper analyzes genetic diversity and biosynthetic potential in Pseudonocardia bacteria associated with fungus-growing ants across a 20km transect, revealing geographic and phylogenetic patterns of microbial diversity.

The paper evaluates genome assembly strategies for diverse bacteria using MinION long-read sequencing and finds that combining MinION and Illumina reads provides the most contiguous and accurate assemblies.