Laurence J. Belcher

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.

GLADE infers gene gains, losses, and duplications across species and reconstructs ancestral genomes, showing higher accuracy than existing methods in mammalian datasets.

OrthoFinder v3 splits orthogroups at duplications predating the species-tree root, raising OrthoBench accuracy, and assigns extra species to a core run, finishing 1024 species in 128 hours.

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