H. A. Wichman

The paper models how different protocols for exposing phages to novel bacterial strains affect the evolution of generalist versus specialist phages.

The paper traces the evolutionary history of L1 and B1 retrotransposons in sigmodontine rodents, showing that B1 extinction did not result from L1 quiescence but may have contributed to L1 extinction through competition and host pressure.

The paper develops Bayesian methods to select among three fitness landscape models using mutation combinatorial networks and applies them to published datasets.