M. Blouin

The central role of the interspecific interactions in the evolution of microbial communities

This study shows that interspecific interactions evolve in half of bacterial communities, increasing productivity by 15% beyond individual strain responses.

Community diversity determines the evolution of synthetic bacterial communities under artificial selection

This study shows that community richness increases productivity and metabolic capacity in synthetic bacterial communities under artificial selection.

Offspring of first-generation hatchery steelhead trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) grow faster in the hatchery than offspring of wild fish, but survive worse in the wild: possible mechanisms for inadvertent domestication and fitness loss in hatchery salmon

The paper tests whether hatchery-raised steelhead trout grow faster in hatcheries but survive worse in the wild, finding a growth-survival tradeoff after one generation of selection.

Changes in wheat rhizosphere microbiota in response to chemical inputs, plant genotype and phenotypic plasticity

The paper investigates how chemical inputs, plant genotype, and phenotypic plasticity affect wheat rhizosphere microbiota composition and diversity.

Artificial selection of stable rhizosphere microbiota leads to heritable plant phenotype changes

Artificial selection of rhizosphere microbiota in Brachypodium distachyon leads to heritable changes in leaf greenness.

Family variation in surface feeding behavior of steelhead fry predicts growth rate under hatchery conditions

The paper shows that surface feeding behavior in steelhead fry correlates with faster growth in hatchery conditions, suggesting selection for boldness may reduce wild fitness.

A core microbiota of the plant-earthworm interaction conserved across soils

The paper investigates how plant and earthworm interactions shape microbial communities in soil, identifying core microbiota and networks conserved across different soils.

Genotypic variability enhances the reproducibility of an ecological study

This study tests whether introducing genotypic variability improves reproducibility in ecological experiments across multiple labs, finding it increases consistency in controlled environments but not in variable ones.