O. X. Cordero

The paper shows that vitamin auxotrophies and lysis-mediated cross-feeding shape microbial community assembly in coastal marine environments.

The paper shows multicellular bacteria use DGRs to diversify antigen sensors, enhancing adaptive immunity and supporting the evolution of multicellularity.

The paper maps gut bacteria into functional niches to reveal the ecological structure of human gut microbiomes, identifying characteristic taxa associated with specific metabolic functions.

This study shows how mutation-induced infections of phage-plasmids enable continuous productive infections in marine bacteria through segregational drift and loss-of-function mutations.

This study identifies a single metabolic strategy axis for heterotrophic bacteria, linking it to genomic features and carbon source preferences.

This paper introduces an unsupervised method to identify functional groups in microbial communities based on abundance patterns and environmental data, validated across soil, ocean, and gut microbiome datasets.

This study shows marine picocyanobacteria utilize chitin, linking their planktonic lifestyle evolution to chitin degradation and ecological expansion.

The paper studies how enzyme secretion strategies in marine bacteria affect their aggregative behaviors and intercellular interactions during polysaccharide degradation.

The paper constructs a genome-scale metabolic model for Vibrio splendidus sp. 1A01 to study its metabolism and addresses challenges in modeling marine microorganisms.

The paper identifies two distinct microbial community classes on synthetic marine particles, shaped by environmental selection and facilitation, with distinct metabolic traits.

This study shows that bacterial multicellular aggregates develop complex lifecycles through phenotypic differentiation driven by spatial gradients of nutrients, enhancing resilience under carbon limitation.

The paper investigates how viral infection affects carbon cycling in algal blooms by altering the balance between bacterial and eukaryotic organic matter recyclers.

The paper investigates microscale microbial community dynamics on chitin particles, finding that stochastic processes and phage predation drive taxonomic and functional variability.

The paper models how varying detachment rates from particles allow microbial populations to coexist in marine environments by balancing growth and mortality risks.

The paper studies metabolic interactions between bacterial species under acidification, showing how complementary metabolic strategies enable collaborative stress resistance and dynamic ecosystem behavior.

The paper shows specialized biopolymer degraders direct microbial community assembly through nutrient crossfeeding in a marine model system.

The paper tracks microbial communities over generations to show that strain-level interactions drive eco-evolutionary dynamics, with fine-scale genetic differences affecting community behavior.

The paper develops a genomic approach to identify public good exploiters in marine microbial communities degrading chitin, showing their activity and potential impact on polysaccharide degradation.

This study examines evolutionary dynamics of comammox Nitrospira populations in groundwater-fed sand filters, finding strong purifying selection and low recombination, suggesting habitat type strongly influences evolution.

The paper identifies a core/flexible bipartition of ocean microbial taxa that best explains abiotic variance, outperforming existing functional groupings.

The paper shows that early community states influence the diversity and function of pitcher-plant microbiomes in synthetic microcosms, with compositional differences correlating with functional differences.

The paper investigates how microbial species-specific metabolic capabilities affect organic matter remineralization in marine sediments, showing species-specific differences in carbon utilization rates and types.

This study shows how bacterial cooperation and spatial self-organization affect polysaccharide degradation rates and efficiency in aquatic environments.

The paper shows that bacterial behavior enables cooperation in cell aggregates by overcoming resource gradients through structural adaptations.

This study shows that ocean polysaccharide-degrading microbial communities assemble in a modular fashion, with distinct primary degrader and broad-niche consumer modules, and validates this model using synthetic particles.

The paper shows that strain-level diversity, not genus-level, drives alternative community types in biofilms, with strains of Candidatus Accumulibacter excluding each other within replicates.

This study shows that micro-scale microbial community interactions on particles significantly affect organic matter degradation rates in marine environments.