Yubin Raut

The paper develops a maximum-likelihood framework to estimate gene prevalence from incomplete genomes and applies it to Prochlorococcus, revealing a pangenome dominated by rare genes.

The paper identifies genetic traits of low-light adapted Prochlorococcus in the Equatorial Pacific, showing loss of nitrite assimilation and use of an iron-independent HemG isoform.

The paper analyzes Species Abundance Distributions (SADs) in marine plankton communities from surveys and simulations, finding invariant scaling despite environmental and taxonomic variation.

This paper calibrates metabarcoding data using flow cytometry to estimate absolute microbial abundances and gene concentrations in oceanic samples.

The paper analyzes microbial community dynamics in the Northwestern Antarctic Peninsula over six years, revealing seasonal and yearly changes in eukaryotic phytoplankton and stability in prokaryotic communities, particularly Nitrincolaceae.

The paper introduces GRUMP, a database of global ocean microbial communities using universal primers, enabling direct comparison of taxonomic ratios across samples and domains.

The paper synthesizes genetic data with a marine ecosystem model to analyze functional biogeography of marine heteroprokaryotes, identifying key ecological factors shaping their distribution.