Ignacio G. Bravo

This study shows that adaptation to complex environments with multiple stressors leads to lower fitness gains and higher fitness reductions under benign conditions compared to single stressors.

This study introduces a mathematical model to explore how nutritional resources shape the composition and stability of the human vaginal microbiota, showing that exclusive access to certain nutrients correlates with bacterial vaginosis dominance.

This study examines sialidase variability in Gardnerella isolates from BV-positive and negative samples, finding no clear link between taxonomy, sialidase genes, and BV status.

This study demonstrates that human cells can translate downstream ORFs in bicistronic mRNAs, showing that upstream ORF codon usage and splicing affect downstream translation efficiency.

This paper develops a theoretical framework to study the evolution of heritable biological noise, showing how natural selection shapes the amount of noise in organisms.

This study evolves a virulent phage to expand its host range and increase virulence, finding convergent mutations in key genes.

This study examines how codon usage bias affects gene expression and cellular function in human cells during heterologous gene expression, showing significant transcriptomic, proteomic, and functional differences.

COUSIN is a normalized index for measuring codon usage preferences, revealing a bimodal distribution in human and chicken genes.

The paper applies macroecological methods to HPV epidemiological data, finding that HPV communities are non-neutral, with increased competition as infections progress toward cancer.