D. Marshall

A synergistic culture dependent and independent approach reveals a conserved wheat seed mycobiome

The paper combines culture-dependent and independent methods to study wheat seed mycobiome diversity, finding that fungal community structure is stable across cultivars and years but richness decreased in 2021.

Copepod life history evolution under high and low food regimes

This study investigates how food regime changes affect copepod life history evolution, finding shifts in body size, fecundity, and offspring investment strategies over generations.

Metabolic evolution in response to interspecific competition in a eukaryote

This study examines how metabolic traits evolve in response to interspecific competition in a eukaryote, finding that competition leads to smaller body size and increased metabolic plasticity, with some departures from metabolic theory predictions.

Density dependent environments can select for extremes of body size

The paper develops size-structured models to explore how density dependence influences body size evolution, showing that gigantism or dwarfism depends on population maturity proportions and developmental trajectories.

Long-term experimental evolution decouples size and production costs in Escherichia coli

This study shows that in Escherichia coli, larger cell size does not correlate with increased production costs, contradicting metabolic theory predictions.