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

The interplay between microevolution and community structure in microbial populations

(2013) Siobhán O’Brien et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Anaerobic oxidation of methane coupled to nitrate reduction in a novel archaeal lineage

(2013) Mohamed F. Haroon et al.   NATURE

Convergent Evolution of Hyperswarming Leads to Impaired Biofilm Formation in Pathogenic Bacteria

(2013) Dave van Ditmarsch et al.   Cell Reports

Strong inter-population cooperation leads to partner intermixing in microbial communities

(2013) Babak Momeni et al.   eLife

From Metabolism to Ecology: Cross-Feeding Interactions Shape the Balance between Polymicrobial Conflict and Mutualism

(2012) Sylvie Estrela et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Spatial Structure and Interspecific Cooperation: Theory and an Empirical Test Using the Mycorrhizal Mutualism

(2012) Erik Verbruggen et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Structured growth and genetic drift raise relatedness in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

(2012) N. J. Buttery et al.   Biology Letters

The Evolution of Mutualism in Gut Microbiota Via Host Epithelial Selection

(2012) Jonas Schluter et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Species Interactions Alter Evolutionary Responses to a Novel Environment

(2012) Diane Lawrence et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The Evolution of Bacteriocin Production in Bacterial Biofilms

(2011) Vanni Bucci et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Growth dependence of conjugation explains limited plasmid invasion in biofilms: an individual-based modelling study

(2011) Brian V. Merkey et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

iDynoMiCS: next-generation individual-based modelling of biofilms

(2011) Laurent A. Lardon et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Self-Organization, Layered Structure, and Aggregation Enhance Persistence of a Synthetic Biofilm Consortium

(2011) Katie Brenner et al.   PLoS One

Social evolution in multispecies biofilms

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

Metabolite Cross-Feeding Enhances Virulence in a Model Polymicrobial Infection

(2011) Matthew M. Ramsey et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Ecological succession in long-term experimentally evolved biofilms produces synergistic communities

(2010) Steffen R Poltak et al.   ISME Journal

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

Rapid evolution of stability and productivity at the origin of a microbial mutualism

(2010) K. L. Hillesland et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Emergence of Spatial Structure in Cell Groups and the Evolution of Cooperation

(2010) Carey D. Nadell et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Mutualistic Biofilm Communities Develop with Porphyromonas gingivalis and Initial, Early, and Late Colonizers of Enamel

(2009) S. Periasamy et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Self-structuring in spatial evolutionary ecology

(2008) Sébastien Lion et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Architecture and spatial organization in a triple-species bacterial biofilm synergistically degrading the phenylurea herbicide linuron

(2008) Philip Breugelmans et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Defined spatial structure stabilizes a synthetic multispecies bacterial community

(2008) H. J. Kim et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Diverse syntrophic partnerships from deep-sea methane vents revealed by direct cell capture and metagenomics

(2008) A. Pernthaler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA