The two studies show essentially the same findings, but despite their co-publication, it looks like the discovery was documented by Mendoza et al. over a year i

The two studies show essentially the same findings, but despite their co-publication, it looks like the discovery was documented by Mendoza et al. over a year in advance of Malone et al. Mendoza et al. spent over a year (!) in review versus two weeks for Malone et al. Mendoza et al. submitted to Nature: 2018-07-16 posted to bioRxiv: 2018-07-17 accepted: 2019-10-11 published: 2019-12-09 Malone et al. posted to bioRxiv: 2019-09-25 submitted to Nature Microbio: 2019-10-03 accepted: 2019-10-17 published: 2019-12-09