Evolutionary transitions in bacterial symbiosis

New paradigms for the evolution of beneficial infections

(2011) Joel L. Sachs et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Transfer of Prokaryotic Algal Symbionts from a Tropical Ascidian (Lissoclinum punctatum) Colony to Its Larvae

(2011) Aoi Kojima et al.   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Let the Right One In: A Microeconomic Approach to Partner Choice in Mutualisms

(2010) Marco Archetti et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Placement of attine ant-associated Pseudonocardia in a global Pseudonocardia phylogeny (Pseudonocardiaceae, Actinomycetales): a test of two symbiont-association models

(2010) Ulrich G. Mueller et al.   ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

A mixed community of actinomycetes produce multiple antibiotics for the fungus farming ant Acromyrmex octospinosus

(2010) Jörg Barke et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Genomic and evolutionary comparisons of diazotrophic and pathogenic bacteria of the order Rhizobiales

(2010) Fabiola M Carvalho et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Symbiont genomics, our new tangled bank

(2010) M. Medina et al.   GENOMICS

An ancient but promiscuous host–symbiont association between Burkholderia gut symbionts and their heteropteran hosts

(2010) Yoshitomo Kikuchi et al.   ISME Journal

Phylogeny of Gammaproteobacteria

(2010) K. P. Williams et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Mutualism variation in the nodulation response to nitrate

(2010) K. D. HEATH et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Host control over infection and proliferation of a cheater symbiont

(2010) J. L. SACHS et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Origins of cheating and loss of symbiosis in wildBradyrhizobium

(2010) J. L. SACHS et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Evolutionary microbial genomics: insights into bacterial host adaptation

(2010) Christina Toft et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

The ecological coherence of high bacterial taxonomic ranks

(2010) Laurent Philippot et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

A complex journey: transmission of microbial symbionts

(2010) Monika Bright et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

The endosymbiotic origin, diversification and fate of plastids

(2010) P. J. Keeling   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Genome Erosion in a Nitrogen-Fixing Vertically Transmitted Endosymbiotic Multicellular Cyanobacterium

(2010) Liang Ran et al.   PLoS One

Economic contract theory tests models of mutualism

(2010) E. G. Weyl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

In Situ Phylogenetic Structure and Diversity of Wild Bradyrhizobium Communities

(2009) J. L. Sachs et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Massive comparative genomic analysis reveals convergent evolution of specialized bacteria

(2009) Vicky Merhej et al.   Biology Direct

A large new subset of TRIM genes highly diversified by duplication and positive selection in teleost fish

(2009) Lieke M van der Aa et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Host-symbiont co-speciation and reductive genome evolution in gut symbiotic bacteria of acanthosomatid stinkbugs

(2009) Yoshitomo Kikuchi et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Dynamics of cell proliferation and apoptosis reflect different life strategies in hydrothermal vent and cold seep vestimentiferan tubeworms

(2009) Bettina Pflugfelder et al.   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

Life cycle and population dynamics of a protective insect symbiont reveal severe bottlenecks during vertical transmission

(2009) Martin Kaltenpoth et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Localization and transmission route of Coriobacterium glomerans, the endosymbiont of pyrrhocorid bugs

(2009) Martin Kaltenpoth et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

A phylogeny-driven genomic encyclopaedia of Bacteria and Archaea

(2009) Dongying Wu et al.   NATURE

The Dynamics and Time Scale of Ongoing Genomic Erosion in Symbiotic Bacteria

(2009) N. A. Moran et al.   SCIENCE

Population Structure of Vibrio fischeri within the Light Organs of Euprymna scolopes Squid from Two Oahu (Hawaii) Populations

(2008) M. S. Wollenberg et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

A core gut microbiome in obese and lean twins

(2008) Peter J. Turnbaugh et al.   NATURE

Conflict, cheats and the persistence of symbioses

(2008) Angela E. Douglas   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The origins of uncooperative rhizobia

(2008) Joel L. Sachs et al.   OIKOS

Paneth cells directly sense gut commensals and maintain homeostasis at the intestinal host-microbial interface

(2008) S. Vaishnava et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A simple, fast, and accurate method of phylogenomic inference

(2008) Martin Wu et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Population dynamics of defensive symbionts in aphids

(2007) K. M Oliver et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES