The Bittleston Lab in the Department of Biological Sciences at Boise State University investigates the ecology and evolution of multispecies interactions.
We aim to understand how microbial communities form, and how their dynamics affect their hosts as well as ecosystem structure and function. To study this, we primarily use the small, aquatic ecosystems that form inside the leaves of carnivorous pitcher plants and take advantage of genomics tools to connect genes with ecology.

 
 

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