Ellen S. Cameron

The paper characterizes the seasonal dynamics of cell-associated viral communities in Big Turkey Lake, identifies their functional roles through auxiliary metabolic genes, and reconstructs viral genomes.

The paper identifies a new transposable element, Tangerine, in the lichen fungus Xanthoria parietina, showing evidence of horizontal gene transfer and potential role in lichen genome evolution.

This study uses long-read metagenomic sequencing to analyze Peltigerales lichen symbionts, revealing high transposable element content and their potential role in lichenization evolution.

This study compares molecular functions and biosynthetic gene clusters in cyanobacterial genomes to identify specializations associated with symbiotic lifestyles.

plastiC recovers and characterizes plastid genomes from metagenomic datasets, demonstrating its utility in recovering algal plastid MAGs from lichen metagenomes.

The paper applies statistical methods from quantitative microbiology to improve diversity analysis of amplicon sequencing data by addressing random error and model limitations.

The paper evaluates the use of repeated rarefying to normalize amplicon sequencing data for microbial community diversity analysis, showing its utility in representing sequence proportions and characterizing rarefaction effects.