A special shout-out to @zzzhiru.bsky.social and @benjaminhgood.bsky.social, whose work on recombination in the human gut has been hugely influential. It directly informed our simulations + stochastic model with empirical rates of recombination estimated for each species. journals.plos.org/p... n/n
Dynamics of bacterial recombination in the human gut microbiomeRecombination is a ubiquitous force in bacterial evolution, but its dynamics are poorly characterized in many natural populations. This study presents a metagenomic approach for quantifying the landsc...journals.plos.org