3 papers
q-bio.PE2026
Natural Selection in the Wake of Catastrophe
Jesse Young Lin, Omer Granek, Joshua Sodicoff +3
Living organisms, from bacteria to humans, are more likely to survive if their traits enhance fitness. In populations well adapted to their environmental niches, natural selection…
physics.bio-ph2026
Learning functional groups in complex microbiomes
Matthew S Schmitt, Kiseok Lee, Freddy Bunbury +3
From soil to the gut, communities composed of thousands of microbes perform functions such as carbon sequestration and immune system regulation. Here, we introduce a data-driven ap…
physics.soc-ph2025
Inferring resource competition in microbial communities from time series
Xiaowen Chen, Kyle Crocker, Seppe Kuehn +2
The competition for resources is a defining feature of microbial communities. In many contexts, from soils to host-associated communities, highly diverse microbes are organized int…