The microbial exometabolome: ecological resource and architect of microbial communities

Costless metabolic secretions as drivers of interspecies interactions in microbial ecosystems

(2019) Alan R. Pacheco et al.   Nature Communications

The genetic basis for adaptation of model-designed syntrophic co-cultures

(2019) Colton J. Lloyd et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Interactions in self-assembled microbial communities saturate with diversity

(2019) Xiaoqian Yu et al.   ISME Journal

Nanotube-mediated cross-feeding couples the metabolism of interacting bacterial cells

(2019) Shraddha Shitut et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Rethinking gut microbiome residency and the Enterobacteriaceae in healthy human adults

(2019) Jonathan N. V. Martinson et al.   ISME Journal

Systematic assessment of secondary bile acid metabolism in gut microbes reveals distinct metabolic capabilities in inflammatory bowel disease

(2019) Almut Heinken et al.   Microbiome

The Evolution and Ecology of Bacterial Warfare

(2019) Elisa T. Granato et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Metagenomic and metabolomic analyses reveal distinct stage-specific phenotypes of the gut microbiota in colorectal cancer

(2019) Shinichi Yachida et al.   NATURE MEDICINE

Massively parallel screening of synthetic microbial communities

(2019) Jared Kehe et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Neutrality in the Metaorganism

(2019) Michael Sieber et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Disentangling strictly self-serving mutations from win-win mutations in a mutualistic microbial community

(2019) Samuel Frederick Mock Hart et al.   eLife

Metabolic model-based analysis of the emergence of bacterial cross-feeding via extensive gene loss

(2018) Colin P. McNally et al.   BMC Systems Biology

Microbial community assembly in wild populations of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster

(2018) Karen L. Adair et al.   ISME Journal

Metabolite secretion in microorganisms: the theory of metabolic overflow put to the test

(2018) Farhana R. Pinu et al.   Metabolomics

Ecology and evolution of metabolic cross-feeding interactions in bacteria

(2018) Glen D'Souza et al.   NATURAL PRODUCT REPORTS

Human Gut Microbiome: Function Matters

(2018) Anna Heintz-Buschart et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Drosophila melanogaster establishes a species-specific mutualistic interaction with stable gut-colonizing bacteria

(2018) Inês S. Pais et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Web of microbes (WoM): a curated microbial exometabolomics database for linking chemistry and microbes

(2018) Suzanne M. Kosina et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Ladderane phospholipids form a densely packed membrane with normal hydrazine and anomalously low proton/hydroxide permeability

(2018) Frank R. Moss et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Microbiomes as Metacommunities: Understanding Host-Associated Microbes through Metacommunity Ecology

(2018) Elizabeth Theresa Miller et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The Cost of Metabolic Interactions in Symbioses between Insects and Bacteria with Reduced Genomes

(2018) Nana Y. D. Ankrah et al.   mBio

A shared limiting resource leads to competitive exclusion in a cross-feeding system

(2018) Sarah P. Hammarlund et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Evolution of bidirectional costly mutualism from byproduct consumption

(2018) William R. Harcombe et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Microbiome interactions shape host fitness

(2018) Alison L. Gould et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cooperation in microbial communities and their biotechnological applications

(2017) Matteo Cavaliere et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Microdiversification in genome-streamlined ubiquitous freshwater Actinobacteria

(2017) Stefan M Neuenschwander et al.   ISME Journal

Recipient-Biased Competition for an Intracellularly Generated Cross-Fed Nutrient Is Required for Coexistence of Microbial Mutualists

(2017) Alexandra L. McCully et al.   mBio

Stochastic assembly produces heterogeneous communities in the Caenorhabditis elegans intestine

(2017) Nicole M. Vega et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

SteadyCom: Predicting microbial abundances while ensuring community stability

(2017) Siu Hung Joshua Chan et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

BacArena: Individual-based metabolic modeling of heterogeneous microbes in complex communities

(2017) Eugen Bauer et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Formation of propionate and butyrate by the human colonic microbiota

(2016) Petra Louis et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Challenges in microbial ecology: building predictive understanding of community function and dynamics

(2016) Stefanie Widder et al.   ISME Journal

Generation of genome-scale metabolic reconstructions for 773 members of the human gut microbiota

(2016) Stefanía Magnúsdóttir et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

How multi-partner endosymbioses function

(2016) Angela E. Douglas   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Cellulosomes: bacterial nanomachines for dismantling plant polysaccharides

(2016) Lior Artzi et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Functional Redundancy-Induced Stability of Gut Microbiota Subjected to Disturbance

(2016) Andrés Moya et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial interactions lead to rapid micro-scale successions on model marine particles

(2016) Manoshi S. Datta et al.   Nature Communications

Metabolic Model-Based Integration of Microbiome Taxonomic and Metabolomic Profiles Elucidates Mechanistic Links between Ecological and Metabolic Variation

(2016) Cecilia Noecker et al.   mSystems

Historical Contingency in Community Assembly: Integrating Niches, Species Pools, and Priority Effects

(2015) Tadashi Fukami   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Exometabolomics and MSI: deconstructing how cells interact to transform their small molecule environment

(2015) Leslie P Silva et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Private benefits and metabolic conflicts shape the emergence of microbial interdependencies

(2015) Sylvie Estrela et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Contribution of neutral processes to the assembly of gut microbial communities in the zebrafish over host development

(2015) Adam R Burns et al.   ISME Journal

Auxotrophy and intrapopulation complementary in the ‘interactome’ of a cultivated freshwater model community

(2015) Sarahi L. Garcia et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Heritable symbiosis: The advantages and perils of an evolutionary rabbit hole

(2015) Gordon M. Bennett et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genome expansion via lineage splitting and genome reduction in the cicada endosymbiontHodgkinia

(2015) Matthew A. Campbell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Networks of energetic and metabolic interactions define dynamics in microbial communities

(2015) Mallory Embree et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Metabolic dependencies drive species co-occurrence in diverse microbial communities

(2015) Aleksej Zelezniak et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Metabolic cross-feeding via intercellular nanotubes among bacteria

(2015) Samay Pande et al.   Nature Communications

Sympatric Speciation in a Bacterial Endosymbiont Results in Two Genomes with the Functionality of One

(2014) James T. Van Leuven et al.   CELL

LESS IS MORE: SELECTIVE ADVANTAGES CAN EXPLAIN THE PREVALENT LOSS OF BIOSYNTHETIC GENES IN BACTERIA

(2014) Glen D'Souza et al.   EVOLUTION

COEXISTENCE OF EVOLVING BACTERIA STABILIZED BY A SHARED BLACK QUEEN FUNCTION

(2014) J. Jeffrey Morris et al.   EVOLUTION

Quantifying the effects of the division of labor in metabolic pathways

(2014) Emily Harvey et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Adaptive Evolution of Synthetic Cooperating Communities Improves Growth Performance

(2014) Xiaolin Zhang et al.   PLoS One

Metabolic Resource Allocation in Individual Microbes Determines Ecosystem Interactions and Spatial Dynamics

(2014) William R. Harcombe et al.   Cell Reports

The Genotypic View of Social Interactions in Microbial Communities

(2013) Sara Mitri et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

TOWARD AN EVOLUTIONARY DEFINITION OF CHEATING

(2013) Melanie Ghoul et al.   EVOLUTION

Diversity, stability and resilience of the human gut microbiota

(2012) Catherine A. Lozupone et al.   NATURE

Metaproteomics of a gutless marine worm and its symbiotic microbial community reveal unusual pathways for carbon and energy use

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

The Application of Ecological Theory Toward an Understanding of the Human Microbiome

(2012) E. K. Costello et al.   SCIENCE

An Interdependent Metabolic Patchwork in the Nested Symbiosis of Mealybugs

(2011) John P. McCutcheon et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Synthetic Escherichia coli consortia engineered for syntrophy demonstrate enhanced biomass productivity

(2011) Hans C. Bernstein et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

Syntrophy in anaerobic global carbon cycles

(2009) Michael J McInerney et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Introduction. The blurred boundary between channels and transporters: We dedicate this volume to the memory of Peter Lauger, a pioneer of the link between channels and pumps.

(2008) F. Ashcroft et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The evolution of modularity in bacterial metabolic networks

(2008) A. Kreimer 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