J. M. Musser

The paper generates single-cell atlases of two lophotrochozoan larvae to compare cell types and infer evolutionary relationships.

This study examines the molecular effects of Omicron spike mutations on ACE2 binding and antibody escape, revealing compensatory stabilizing mutations that enable high mutation counts.

The paper shows SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant infects white-tailed deer on Staten Island, with age-dependent antibody prevalence and evidence of human-to-deer spillover.

SARS-CoV-2 was detected in one-third of sampled white-tailed deer in Iowa between September 2020 and January of 2021 that likely resulted from multiple human-to-deer spillover and deer-to-deer transmission events.

The study evaluates anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody and neutralizing titer profiles in convalescent plasma samples to determine the optimal donation window for immunotherapy.

This study finds a strong correlation between anti-RBD and anti-ECD IgG titers and in vitro virus neutralization titers in convalescent plasma, suggesting these titers can serve as surrogates for neutralizing activity.

The paper examines genetic variation in the Spy1336/R28 and Spy1337 virulence genes of S. pyogenes and its effects on transcript levels and virulence in infection models.

The paper reports the draft genome sequence of a Candida auris clinical isolate from a Houston patient using Oxford Nanopore sequencing.

This study develops a model to measure correlated transcriptome evolution across tissues and finds that related tissues show higher levels of correlated gene expression evolution.