Hao Zhang

This study shows that Proterozoic tectonic events, not glycan specialization, drove Flavobacterial diversification by enabling marine-to-non-marine habitat transitions.

This study estimates the origin of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) using eukaryotic fossils and Bayesian dating, finding they emerged between 2.1 and 1.9 billion years ago.

The paper uses agent-based modeling to show that drift, not selection, drove genome reduction in early Prochlorococcus by analyzing the dR/dC substitution ratio.