A. I. Garber

Bacterial aerobic methane cycling by the marine sponge-associated microbiome

This study identifies aerobic methane cycling in shallow-water marine sponges, revealing methanogenesis and methanotrophy pathways involving methylamine and methylphosphonate transformations.

Particle-associated and free-living microbial assemblages are distinct in a permanently redox-stratified freshwater lake

The paper examines microbial assemblages in a redox-stratified lake, finding distinct particle-associated and free-living communities that respond to seasonal changes and redox conditions.

The evolution of interdependence in a four-way mealybug symbiosis

This paper studies the genomic and metabolic interdependence of two recently acquired gammaproteobacterial endosymbionts in mealybugs, showing their rapid adaptation to an intracellular lifestyle.

Bacterial adaptation by a transposition burst of an invading IS element

This study shows that a single transposable element drives adaptation in cyanobacteria over 400 generations through copy-and-paste activity.

Evolution and adaptation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the paranasal sinuses of people with cystic fibrosis

This study identifies three evolutionary genetic routes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa adaptation in the sinuses of people with cystic fibrosis, suggesting sinuses may be an early site of pathoadaptation before lung infections.