A hypothesis: CRISPR-Cas as a minimal cognitive system

Cognition is not exceptional

(2018) Simon McGregor   ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR

Individuality, subjectivity, and minimal cognition

(2016) Peter Godfrey-Smith   BIOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY

The roles of CRISPR–Cas systems in adaptive immunity and beyond

(2015) Rodolphe Barrangou   CURRENT OPINION IN IMMUNOLOGY

Cas9 specifies functional viral targets during CRISPR–Cas adaptation

(2015) Robert Heler et al.   NATURE

The cognitive cell: bacterial behavior reconsidered

(2015) Pamela Lyon   Frontiers in Microbiology

Do all creatures possess an acquired immune system of some sort?

(2014) Jacob Rimer et al.   BIOESSAYS

Memory CD8+T cells exhibit increased antigen threshold requirements for recall proliferation

(2014) Erin R. Mehlhop-Williams et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE

CRISPR–Cas systems: beyond adaptive immunity

(2014) Edze R. Westra et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Adaptation in bacterial CRISPR-Cas immunity can be driven by defective phages

(2014) Alexander P. Hynes et al.   Nature Communications

CRISPR-Mediated Adaptive Immune Systems in Bacteria and Archaea

(2013) Rotem Sorek et al.   Annual Review of Biochemistry

Cytotoxic Chromosomal Targeting by CRISPR/Cas Systems Can Reshape Bacterial Genomes and Expel or Remodel Pathogenicity Islands

(2013) Reuben B. Vercoe et al.   PLoS Genetics

The CRISPRs, They Are A-Changin': How Prokaryotes Generate Adaptive Immunity

(2012) Edze R. Westra et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Plants: Adaptive behavior, root-brains, and minimal cognition

(2011) Paco Calvo Garzón et al.   ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR

Unification of Cas protein families and a simple scenario for the origin and evolution of CRISPR-Cas systems

(2011) Kira S Makarova et al.   Biology Direct

Evolution and classification of the CRISPR–Cas systems

(2011) Kira S. Makarova et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

The CRISPR System: Small RNA-Guided Defense in Bacteria and Archaea

(2010) Fedor V. Karginov et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Self versus non-self discrimination during CRISPR RNA-directed immunity

(2010) Luciano A. Marraffini et al.   NATURE

CRISPR interference: RNA-directed adaptive immunity in bacteria and archaea

(2010) Luciano A. Marraffini et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

CRISPR/Cas, the Immune System of Bacteria and Archaea

(2010) P. Horvath et al.   SCIENCE

Self-targeting by CRISPR: gene regulation or autoimmunity?

(2010) Adi Stern et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

CRISPI: a CRISPR interactive database

(2009) C. Rousseau et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Chemotaxis: how bacteria use memory

(2009) Nikita Vladimirov et al.   BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Is evolution Darwinian or/and Lamarckian?

(2009) Eugene V Koonin et al.   Biology Direct

Small CRISPR RNAs Guide Antiviral Defense in Prokaryotes

(2008) S. J. J. Brouns et al.   SCIENCE

CRISPR Interference Limits Horizontal Gene Transfer in Staphylococci by Targeting DNA

(2008) Luciano A. Marraffini et al.   SCIENCE

Virus Population Dynamics and Acquired Virus Resistance in Natural Microbial Communities

(2008) A. F. Andersson et al.   SCIENCE

Plant neurobiology and green plant intelligence: science, metaphors and nonsense

(2007) Paul C Struik et al.   JOURNAL OF THE SCIENCE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE

CRISPR — a widespread system that provides acquired resistance against phages in bacteria and archaea

(2007) Rotem Sorek et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY