Kathryn F. Atherton

Microbial functional guilds and genes are key to explaining soil nutrient cycling alongside soil and plant variables

This study identifies microbial functional guilds and genes as key predictors of soil nitrogen and phosphorus cycling rates, alongside soil and plant variables in temperate forests.

Symbiosis modulates gene expression of symbionts, but not hosts, under thermal challenge

The paper examines gene expression responses of coral hosts and their symbionts to thermal stress, finding hosts show stronger responses than symbionts, with symbionts exhibiting greater plasticity when free-living.