Our paper just came out in eLife last week: https://elifesciences.org/articles/74987! Only the abstract is up right now, but the full paper should be published soon. This paper, titled “Interactions between strains govern the eco-evolutionary dynamics of microbial communities” examines bacteria from pitcher plant communities at the strain level and finds that strains with very little genomic separation (~100 SNPs) can have different growth dynamics. Furthermore, most of the interactions (correlations) among taxa occur at the strain, and not the ASV, level. The analysis and writing for this paper was led by Dr. Akshit Goyal, a Physics of Living Systems Fellow at MIT.