Chunhui Hao

This study shows growth rate is a major organizing axis shaping bacterial trait evolution across timescales, with distinct slow- and fast-growing regimes and varying coupling with other traits.

The paper investigates how cooperation genes influence bacterial niche breadth evolution and diversification patterns across 25,785 species, finding positive correlations and effects on speciation/extinction rates.

The paper uses multivariate coevolutionary analysis to show how life-history traits evolve through modular pathways in amniotes, with distinct tempos across traits and taxa.

SOCfinder identifies cooperative genes in bacterial genomes by combining extracellular protein coding, functional annotations, and secondary metabolite biosynthesis.