Jennah E. Dharamshi

The paper identifies uncharacterized lineages within Holozoa and Opisthokonta, highlighting gaps in sampling diversity for understanding animal origins.

The paper identifies tubulins in Asgard archaea and shows they form mini-microtubules with eukaryotic-like properties, suggesting an archaeal origin for microtubules.

The paper analyzes hundreds of Caulobacterales species to reveal ecological and evolutionary patterns, including widespread phototrophy and convergent loss of dimorphism.

The paper investigates aggregation in a unicellular relative of animals, finding that it uses genes involved in animal multicellularity, suggesting aggregation was key to animal evolution.

The paper cultivates microbial communities from the Baltic Sea and finds that species in multi-species cultures have smaller genomes and rely on metabolic partners.

This study links genome size to microbial prevalence and community structure in freshwater ecosystems, showing that streamlined genomes promote cosmopolitanism and interdependencies.