Namratha Raj

The paper examines genomic variation in membrane and cytoplasmic proteins across E. coli and S. cerevisiae, finding higher non-synonymous variation and lower synonymous variation in membrane proteins.

The paper shows that facultative cheating and hybrid vigor resolve cooperator-cheater conflict in a yeast public goods system by enabling phenotypic flexibility through hybridization.

This study provides empirical evidence of resource-dependent changes in payoff matrices of Saccharomyces cerevisiae populations, showing three distinct evolutionary outcomes based on carbon source and genotypes.

The paper analyzes epistasis in an E. coli gene's fitness landscape, showing that pairwise epistasis is fluid and binary, with most mutations lacking strong global patterns.