Rika Anderson ’06, associate professor of biology, Troy Osborn ’25, and alumni Juntao Zhong ’23, Thais del Rosario Hernández ’20, and Sasha Kyrysyuk ’20 published a paper titled, “Increasing transposase abundance with ocean depth correlates with a particle-associated lifestyle” in the journal mSystems. They investigated why “jumping genes” in microbial genomes increase in abundance with depth in the oceans and showed that it is linked to microbial warfare on densely packed particles.