Quantifying bacterial evolution in the wild: a birthday problem for Campylobacter lineages
Jessica Kate Calland, Ben Pascoe, Sion Bayliss, Evangelos Mourkas, Elvire Berthenet, Harry A. Thorpe, Matthew D. Hitchings, Edward J. Feil, Jukka Corander, Martin J. Blaser, Daniel Falush, Samuel Keir Sheppard
The paper estimates molecular clock rates in Campylobacter using a birthday problem analogy to quantify lineage turnover and diversification in environmental bacteria.
bioRxiv · Dec 2, 2020 · PreprintGenomics