Big answers from small worlds: a user's guide for protist microcosms as a model system in ecology and evolution

A newly discovered role of evolution in previously published consumer-resource dynamics

(2014) Teppo Hiltunen et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Genome-defence small RNAs exapted for epigenetic mating-type inheritance

(2014) Deepankar Pratap Singh et al.   NATURE

Genome-wide analysis of genetic and epigenetic control of programmed DNA deletion

(2014) Estienne C. Swart et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Automated image-based tracking and its application in ecology

(2014) Anthony I. Dell et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Ecological stability in response to warming

(2014) Katarina E. Fussmann et al.   Nature Climate Change

Active colonization dynamics and diversity patterns are influenced by dendritic network connectivity and species interactions

(2014) Mathew Seymour et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Effects of directional environmental change on extinction dynamics in experimental microbial communities are predicted by a simple model

(2013) Christopher F. Clements et al.   OIKOS

Emerging predictable features of replicated biological invasion fronts

(2013) A. Giometto et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Scaling body size fluctuations

(2013) A. Giometto et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Implementing image analysis in laboratory-based experimental systems for ecology and evolution: a hands-on guide

(2013) Frank Pennekamp et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Stable Isotope Probing and Raman Spectroscopy for Monitoring Carbon Flow in a Food Chain and Revealing Metabolic Pathway

(2012) Mengqiu Li et al.   ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Spatial clustering of habitat structure effects patterns of community composition and diversity

(2012) Florian Altermatt et al.   ECOLOGY

Genetic influence on disease spread following arrival of infected carriers

(2012) Simon Fellous et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The Revised Classification of Eukaryotes

(2012) Sina M. Adl et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Restricted distribution and limited gene flow in the model ciliateTetrahymena thermophila

(2012) Rebecca A. Zufall et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The Metatron: an experimental system to study dispersal and metaecosystems for terrestrial organisms

(2012) Delphine Legrand et al.   NATURE METHODS

Coexistence via Resource Partitioning Fails to Generate an Increase in Community Function

(2012) John P. DeLong et al.   PLoS One

Transcriptome Analysis of the Model Protozoan, Tetrahymena thermophila, Using Deep RNA Sequencing

(2012) Jie Xiong et al.   PLoS One

Interaction of Species Traits and Environmental Disturbance Predicts Invasion Success of Aquatic Microorganisms

(2012) Elvira Mächler et al.   PLoS One

Quorum Sensing and Density-Dependent Dispersal in an Aquatic Model System

(2012) Simon Fellous et al.   PLoS One

Dendritic connectivity controls biodiversity patterns in experimental metacommunities

(2012) F. Carrara et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Experimental evolution

(2012) Tadeusz J. Kawecki et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

CBOL Protist Working Group: Barcoding Eukaryotic Richness beyond the Animal, Plant, and Fungal Kingdoms

(2012) Jan Pawlowski et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Cytosine methylation and hydroxymethylation mark DNA for elimination in Oxytricha trifallax

(2012) John R Bracht et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic limiting similarity and competitive exclusion

(2011) Cyrille Violle et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Competition–colonization trade-offs in a ciliate model community

(2011) Romana Limberger et al.   OECOLOGIA

Effects of Connectivity and Recurrent Local Disturbances on Community Structure and Population Density in Experimental Metacommunities

(2011) Florian Altermatt et al.   PLoS One

Environmental Barcoding: A Next-Generation Sequencing Approach for Biomonitoring Applications Using River Benthos

(2011) Mehrdad Hajibabaei et al.   PLoS One

Adaptation and Evolutionary Rescue in Metapopulations Experiencing Environmental Deterioration

(2011) G. Bell et al.   SCIENCE

Mechanistic analogy: how microcosms explain nature

(2011) John M. Drake et al.   Theoretical Ecology

Cytometric methods for measuring bacteria in water: advantages, pitfalls and applications

(2010) Frederik Hammes et al.   ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

High community dissimilarity at low productivity causes the productivity-richness relation to vary with observational scale

(2010) W. Li et al.   COMMUNITY ECOLOGY

Interactive effects of disturbance and dispersal directionality on species richness and composition in metacommunities

(2010) Florian Altermatt et al.   ECOLOGY

Stronger inducible defences enhance persistence of intraguild prey

(2010) Pavel Kratina et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Direct and indirect effects of temperature on the population dynamics and ecosystem functioning of aquatic microbial ecosystems

(2010) Oliver S. Beveridge et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Experimental evolution of protozoan traits in response to interspecific competition

(2010) C. P. TerHORST   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Mechanisms of temperature-dependent swimming: the importance of physics, physiology and body size in determining protist swimming speed

(2010) O. S. Beveridge et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Using experimental indices to quantify the strength of species interactions

(2010) Mark Novak et al.   OIKOS

Experimental demonstration of the importance of competition under disturbance

(2010) C. Violle et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cycles, phase synchronization, and entrainment in single-species phytoplankton populations

(2010) T. M. Massie et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Single-Cell Ecophysiology of Microbes as Revealed by Raman Microspectroscopy or Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Imaging

(2009) Michael Wagner   Annual Review of Microbiology

Cooperative social clusters are not destroyed by dispersal in a ciliate

(2009) Nicolas Schtickzelle et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Factors controlling community structure in heterogeneous metacommunities

(2009) Kendi F. Davies et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Growth Phase and Elemental Stoichiometry of Bacterial Prey Influences Ciliate Grazing Selectivity

(2009) DAVID F. GRUBER et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Phase-locking and environmental fluctuations generate synchrony in a predator–prey community

(2009) David A. Vasseur et al.   NATURE

Context-dependent effects of predator removal from experimental microcosm communities

(2009) Nicholas T. Worsfold et al.   OIKOS

Developmental genome rearrangements in ciliates: a natural genomic subtraction mediated by non-coding transcripts

(2009) Sandra Duharcourt et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

COMMUNITY ASSEMBLY IN THE PRESENCE OF DISTURBANCE: A MICROCOSM EXPERIMENT

(2008) Lin Jiang et al.   ECOLOGY

Species’ traits predict the effects of disturbance and productivity on diversity

(2008) Nick M. Haddad et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Genetic Diversity in the Paramecium aurelia Species Complex

(2008) F. Catania et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Functional responses modified by predator density

(2008) Pavel Kratina et al.   OECOLOGIA