Causes and consequences of pattern diversification in a spatially self-organizing microbial community

Short-range interactions govern the dynamics and functions of microbial communities

(2020) Alma Dal Co et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Interaction-dependent effects of surface structure on microbial spatial self-organization

(2020) Davide Ciccarese et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Spatial organization in microbial range expansion emerges from trophic dependencies and successful lineages

(2020) Benedict Borer et al.   Communications Biology

Bacteria and archaea on Earth and their abundance in biofilms

(2019) Hans-Curt Flemming et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Environmental heterogeneity can tip the population genetics of range expansions

(2019) Matti Gralka et al.   eLife

Substrate cross-feeding affects the speed and trajectory of molecular evolution within a synthetic microbial assemblage

(2019) Elin E. Lilja et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Cooperation, competition and antibiotic resistance in bacterial colonies

(2018) Isabel Frost et al.   ISME Journal

Community interactions and spatial structure shape selection on antibiotic resistant lineages

(2018) Sylvie Estrela et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Successive range expansion promotes diversity and accelerates evolution in spatially structured microbial populations

(2017) Felix Goldschmidt et al.   ISME Journal

Metabolite toxicity slows local diversity loss during expansion of a microbial cross-feeding community

(2017) Felix Goldschmidt et al.   ISME Journal

Cooperation in carbon source degradation shapes spatial self-organization of microbial consortia on hydrated surfaces

(2017) Robin Tecon et al.   Scientific Reports

Allele surfing promotes microbial adaptation from standing variation

(2016) Matti Gralka et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Segregating metabolic processes into different microbial cells accelerates the consumption of inhibitory substrates

(2016) Elin E Lilja et al.   ISME Journal

Self-driven jamming in growing microbial populations

(2016) Morgan Delarue et al.   Nature Physics

Biofilms: an emergent form of bacterial life

(2016) Hans-Curt Flemming et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Response of single bacterial cells to stress gives rise to complex history dependence at the population level

(2016) Roland Mathis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Microbial individuality: how single-cell heterogeneity enables population level strategies

(2015) Bruno MC Martins et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Resource limitation drives spatial organization in microbial groups

(2015) Sara Mitri et al.   ISME Journal

Competition for space during bacterial colonization of a surface

(2015) Diarmuid P. Lloyd et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

A functional perspective on phenotypic heterogeneity in microorganisms

(2015) Martin Ackermann   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Mechanically-driven phase separation in a growing bacterial colony

(2015) Pushpita Ghosh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning

(2014) David Tilman et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Collective antibiotic resistance: mechanisms and implications

(2014) Nicole M Vega et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Consequences of biodiversity loss for litter decomposition across biomes

(2014) I. Tanya Handa et al.   NATURE

Genetic drift opposes mutualism during spatial population expansion

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Mechanically Driven Growth of Quasi-Two-Dimensional Microbial Colonies

(2013) F. D. C. Farrell et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Range expansion promotes cooperation in an experimental microbial metapopulation

(2013) M. S. Datta et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cell Polarity-Driven Instability Generates Self-Organized, Fractal Patterning of Cell Layers

(2013) Timothy J. Rudge et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

The Fate of Cooperation during Range Expansions

(2013) Kirill S. Korolev   PLoS Computational Biology

Spatial self-organization favors heterotypic cooperation over cheating

(2013) Babak Momeni et al.   eLife

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

(2013) Babak Momeni et al.   eLife

The interconnection between biofilm formation and horizontal gene transfer

(2012) Jonas Stenløkke Madsen et al.   FEMS IMMUNOLOGY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

Localized cell death focuses mechanical forces during 3D patterning in a biofilm

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

Synthetic Escherichia coli consortia engineered for syntrophy demonstrate enhanced biomass productivity

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

Biodiversity improves water quality through niche partitioning

(2011) Bradley J. Cardinale   NATURE

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

(2011) Katie Brenner et al.   PLoS One

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

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

Social Evolution of Spatial Patterns in Bacterial Biofilms: When Conflict Drives Disorder

(2009) João B. Xavier et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Biodiversity in a complex world: consolidation and progress in functional biodiversity research

(2009) Helmut Hillebrand et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

LIFE AT THE FRONT OF AN EXPANDING POPULATION

(2009) Oskar Hallatschek et al.   EVOLUTION

Deep-Sea Archaea Fix and Share Nitrogen in Methane-Consuming Microbial Consortia

(2009) A. E. Dekas et al.   SCIENCE

Bistability, Epigenetics, and Bet-Hedging in Bacteria

(2008) Jan-Willem Veening et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

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

Stochasticity and bistability in horizontal transfer control of a genomic island in Pseudomonas

(2008) M. Minoia et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Defined spatial structure stabilizes a synthetic multispecies bacterial community

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