Bret Larget

TL;DR: In this article, the authors collected data from a global network of automated lake observatories to test hypotheses regarding the drivers of ecosystem metabolism, and estimated daily rates of respiration and gross primary production (GPP) for up to a full year in each lake, via maximum likelihood fits of a free-water metabolism model to continuous highfrequency measurements of dissolved oxygen concentrations.

TL;DR: It is found that proposals producing topology changes as a side effect of branch length changes (LOCAL and Continuous Change) consistently perform worse than those involving stochastic branch rearrangements (nearest neighbor interchange, subtree pruning and regrafting, tree bisection and reconnection, or subtree swapping).

TL;DR: It is shown that Pseudonocardia associated with fungus-growing ants are not monophyletic: the ants have acquired free-living strains over the evolutionary history of the association, and antibiotic assays suggest that despite Escovopsis being generally susceptible to inhibition by diverse Actinobacteria, the ant-derived Pseud onocardia inhibitEscovopsis more strongly than they inhibit other fungi, and are better at inhibiting this pathogen than most environmental PseudOnocardia strains

TL;DR: A Bayesian framework for the analysis of cospeciation is developed, suggesting a simple model of host switching by a parasite on a host phylogeny in which host switching events are assumed to occur at a constant rate over the entire evolutionary history of associated hosts and parasites.

TL;DR: The results underscore the importance of measuring phylogenetic discordance in other recently diverged groups using methods such as Bayesian concordance analysis, which are designed for this purpose, and apply a recently developed method to dense SNP data from three closely related subspecies of house mice.