A. Kupczok

The paper investigates species-specific orphan genes in the human gut microbiome, finding most originate internally rather than from external sources like viruses.

The paper identifies ArLV1, a comovirus infecting Arabidopsis thaliana without visible symptoms, and shows its widespread presence in natural and laboratory collections.

This study identifies co-transferred gene pairs in lambdoid phages, showing that functionally related genes are often transferred together, suggesting epistatic interactions drive genome modularity.

This study develops a population genetics model for polyploid prokaryotes, showing that beneficial mutations can fix phenotypically before genotypically, creating a heterozygosity window.

This study identifies genetic factors influencing rhizosphere microbiome assembly in tomato by linking plant QTLs to microbial gene functions.

This study examines pangenome evolution in symbionts of deep-sea mussels, finding that vertical inheritance, not horizontal gene transfer, drives genetic diversity in environmentally acquired bacterial symbionts.

This study identifies that insertions and deletions (indels) contribute to antibiotic resistance evolution in Mycobacterium tuberculosis during an outbreak, with indels showing a slower evolutionary rate than substitutions.

The paper identifies a phage-encoded ankyrin domain protein that modulates eukaryotic immune responses, enabling immune evasion in host-microbe interactions.

This study shows that horizontally transmitted symbionts in deep-sea mussels form genetically isolated populations due to restricted bacterial uptake and serial founder effects during host life-cycle.

The paper shows that deep-sea mussels host multiple symbiont strains with diverse metabolic functions, challenging the idea that symbiont diversity is limited in intracellular bacteria.

This study shows that segregational drift in multicopy plasmids reduces their evolvability by increasing mutation loss and fixation time, despite higher mutational supply.