War and peace: social interactions in infections

Synchrony in Malaria Infections: How Intensifying Within-Host Competition Can Be Adaptive

(2013) Megan A. Greischar et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Cell-Cell Communication between Malaria-Infected Red Blood Cells via Exosome-like Vesicles

(2013) Neta Regev-Rudzki et al.   CELL

Multiple infections and the evolution of virulence

(2013) Samuel Alizon et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

EXPLORING THE SOCIOBIOLOGY OF PYOVERDIN-PRODUCINGPSEUDOMONAS

(2013) Xue-Xian Zhang et al.   EVOLUTION

Costs of crowding for the transmission of malaria parasites

(2013) Laura. C. Pollitt et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Disrupting rhythms in Plasmodium chabaudi: costs accrue quickly and independently of how infections are initiated

(2013) Aidan J O’Donnell et al.   MALARIA JOURNAL

The interplay between relatedness and horizontal gene transfer drives the evolution of plasmid-carried public goods

(2013) S. E. Mc Ginty et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Adaptive noise

(2013) M. Viney et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Cutting through the complexity of cell collectives

(2013) C. D. Nadell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Altruism can evolve when relatedness is low: evidence from bacteria committing suicide upon phage infection

(2013) D. Refardt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Generalism and the evolution of parasite virulence

(2013) Helen C. Leggett et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Bacterial Quorum Sensing: Its Role in Virulence and Possibilities for Its Control

(2013) S. T. Rutherford et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine

Metabolic and Demographic Feedbacks Shape the Emergent Spatial Structure and Function of Microbial Communities

(2013) Sylvie Estrela et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Experimental Evolution of Adaptive Phenotypic Plasticity in a Parasite

(2012) Helen C. Leggett et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Selection on non-social traits limits the invasion of social cheats

(2012) Andrew D. Morgan et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

SPITE VERSUS CHEATS: COMPETITION AMONG SOCIAL STRATEGIES SHAPES VIRULENCE INPSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA

(2012) R. Fredrik Inglis et al.   EVOLUTION

Life in cells, hosts, and vectors: Parasite evolution across scales

(2012) Nicole Mideo et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Caste ratios affect the reproductive output of social trematode colonies

(2012) T. Kamiya et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome

(2012)   NATURE

Within-Host Dynamics of Multi-Species Infections: Facilitation, Competition and Virulence

(2012) Sandeepa M. Eswarappa et al.   PLoS One

Density-dependent fitness benefits in quorum-sensing bacterial populations

(2012) S. E. Darch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reproductive clonality of pathogens: A perspective on pathogenic viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasitic protozoa

(2012) M. Tibayrenc et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Quorum-sensing and cheating in bacterial biofilms

(2012) R. Popat et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evolution of virulence in opportunistic pathogens: generalism, plasticity, and control

(2012) Sam P. Brown et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

The Cinderella syndrome: why do malaria-infected cells burst at midnight?

(2012) Nicole Mideo et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Competition and the Evolution of Reproductive Restraint in Malaria Parasites

(2011) Laura C. Pollitt et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Plasticity in parasite phenotypes: evolutionary and ecological implications for disease

(2011) Nicole Mideo et al.   Future Microbiology

Cost of cooperation rules selection for cheats in bacterial metapopulations

(2011) Z. DUMAS et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The genetical theory of kin selection

(2011) A. GARDNER et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Successful establishment of Wolbachia in Aedes populations to suppress dengue transmission

(2011) A. A. Hoffmann et al.   NATURE

Host-mediated regulation of superinfection in malaria

(2011) Silvia Portugal et al.   NATURE MEDICINE

In-Vivo Expression Profiling of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infections Reveals Niche-Specific and Strain-Independent Transcriptional Programs

(2011) Piotr Bielecki et al.   PLoS One

The evolution of drug resistance and the curious orthodoxy of aggressive chemotherapy

(2011) A. F. Read et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Social evolution in multispecies biofilms

(2011) S. Mitri et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A fitness trade-off between local competition and dispersal in Vibrio cholerae biofilms

(2011) C. D. Nadell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fitness costs of disrupting circadian rhythms in malaria parasites

(2011) A. J. O'Donnell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Self-Recognition in Social Amoebae Is Mediated by Allelic Pairs of Tiger Genes

(2011) S. Hirose et al.   SCIENCE

The Meaning of Death: Evolution and Ecology of Apoptosis in Protozoan Parasites

(2011) Sarah E. Reece et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Sex and Death: The Effects of Innate Immune Factors on the Sexual Reproduction of Malaria Parasites

(2011) Ricardo S. Ramiro et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Increased Tolerance to Artemisinin in Plasmodium falciparum Is Mediated by a Quiescence Mechanism

(2010) B. Witkowski et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER AND THE EVOLUTION OF BACTERIAL COOPERATION

(2010) Sorcha E. Mc Ginty et al.   EVOLUTION

Fitness correlates with the extent of cheating in a bacterium

(2010) N. JIRICNY et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

A molecular mechanism that stabilizes cooperative secretions in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

(2010) Joao B. Xavier et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Molecular and regulatory properties of a public good shape the evolution of cooperation

(2010) R. Kummerli et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Stress, drugs and the evolution of reproductive restraint in malaria parasites

(2010) S. E. Reece et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Species Interactions in a Parasite Community Drive Infection Risk in a Wildlife Population

(2010) Sandra Telfer et al.   SCIENCE

Pseudomonas aeruginosaMicroevolution during Cystic Fibrosis Lung Infection Establishes Clones with Adapted Virulence

(2009) Alessandra Bragonzi et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Polymorphic Members of the lag Gene Family Mediate Kin Discrimination in Dictyostelium

(2009) Rocio Benabentos et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Quorum Sensing and the Social Evolution of Bacterial Virulence

(2009) Kendra P. Rumbaugh et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Horizontal Gene Transfer of the Secretome Drives the Evolution of Bacterial Cooperation and Virulence

(2009) Teresa Nogueira et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Intraspecific competition between co-infecting parasite strains enhances host survival in African trypanosomes

(2009) Oliver Balmer et al.   ECOLOGY

GREENBEARDS

(2009) Andy Gardner et al.   EVOLUTION

SYNTHESIS: Evolutionary ecology of microbial wars: within-host competition and (incidental) virulence

(2009) Sam P. Brown et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Capturing the superorganism: a formal theory of group adaptation

(2009) A. GARDNER et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Adaptive prediction of environmental changes by microorganisms

(2009) Amir Mitchell et al.   NATURE

Lifetime monogamy and the evolution of eusociality

(2009) J. J. Boomsma   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Social evolution in micro-organisms and a Trojan horse approach to medical intervention strategies

(2009) S. P. Brown et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Viscous medium promotes cooperation in the pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa

(2009) R. Kummerli et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Simpson's Paradox in a Synthetic Microbial System

(2009) J. S. Chuang et al.   SCIENCE

The social behaviours of bacterial pathogens

(2008) R. Popat et al.   BRITISH MEDICAL BULLETIN

A Social Life for Discerning Microbes

(2008) Sam P. Brown et al.   CELL

Invasion thresholds and the evolution of nonequilibrium virulence

(2008) James J. Bull et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Kin selection and the evolution of virulence

(2008) A Buckling et al.   HEREDITY

Virulence evolution and the trade-off hypothesis: history, current state of affairs and the future

(2008) S. ALIZON et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Phenotypic plasticity of a cooperative behaviour in bacteria

(2008) R. KÜMMERLI et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Sex ratio adjustment and kin discrimination in malaria parasites

(2008) Sarah E. Reece et al.   NATURE

Self-destructive cooperation mediated by phenotypic noise

(2008) Martin Ackermann et al.   NATURE

Virulence-transmission trade-offs and population divergence in virulence in a naturally occurring butterfly parasite

(2008) J. C. de Roode et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

On the evolution of reproductive restraint in malaria

(2008) N. Mideo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Modelling within-Host Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Invasive Bacterial Disease

(2008) Andrew J Grant et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY