The evolution of strategy in bacterial warfare via the regulation of bacteriocins and antibiotics

Droplet printing reveals the importance of micron-scale structure for bacterial ecology

(2021) Ravinash Krishna Kumar et al.   Nature Communications

Biofilm Bacteria Use Stress Responses to Detect and Respond to Competitors

(2020) Bram Lories et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The evolution of tit-for-tat in bacteria via the type VI secretion system

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Understanding policing as a mechanism of cheater control in cooperating bacteria

(2019) Tobias Wechsler et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The Evolution and Ecology of Bacterial Warfare

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

Bacteria Use Collective Behavior to Generate Diverse Combat Strategies

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Costs and benefits of provocation in bacterial warfare

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SnapShot: Bacterial Quorum Sensing

(2018) Michaela J. Eickhoff et al.   CELL

Bacterial symbionts use a type VI secretion system to eliminate competitors in their natural host

(2018) Lauren Speare et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The evolution of siderophore production as a competitive trait

(2017) Rene Niehus et al.   EVOLUTION

Antimicrobials from human skin commensal bacteria protect against Staphylococcus aureus and are deficient in atopic dermatitis

(2017) Teruaki Nakatsuji et al.   Science Translational Medicine

Diversification of Type VI Secretion System Toxins Reveals Ancient Antagonism among Bee Gut Microbes

(2017) Margaret I. Steele et al.   mBio

Killing by Type VI secretion drives genetic phase separation and correlates with increased cooperation

(2017) Luke McNally et al.   Nature Communications

Human commensals producing a novel antibiotic impair pathogen colonization

(2016) Alexander Zipperer et al.   NATURE

Microcins mediate competition among Enterobacteriaceae in the inflamed gut

(2016) Martina Sassone-Corsi et al.   NATURE

Spatial structure, cooperation and competition in biofilms

(2016) Carey D. Nadell et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

SalmonellaTyphimurium utilizes a T6SS-mediated antibacterial weapon to establish in the host gut

(2016) Thibault G. Sana et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bacterial danger sensing

(2015) Michele LeRoux et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Bacteriocin production augments niche competition by enterococci in the mammalian gastrointestinal tract

(2015) Sushma Kommineni et al.   NATURE

Counteraction of antibiotic production and degradation stabilizes microbial communities

(2015) Eric D. Kelsic et al.   NATURE

The biogeography of polymicrobial infection

(2015) Apollo Stacy et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Socially mediated induction and suppression of antibiosis during bacterial coexistence

(2015) Monica I. Abrudan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The ecology of the microbiome: Networks, competition, and stability

(2015) K. Z. Coyte et al.   SCIENCE

New Players in the Toxin Field: Polymorphic Toxin Systems in Bacteria

(2015) Anne Jamet et al.   mBio

Independent Co-Option of a Tailed Bacteriophage into a Killing Complex in Pseudomonas

(2015) Kevin L. Hockett et al.   mBio

Biofilm Formation As a Response to Ecological Competition

(2015) Nuno M. Oliveira et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Kin cell lysis is a danger signal that activates antibacterial pathways of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

(2015) Michele LeRoux et al.   eLife

Why do bacteria regulate public goods by quorum sensing?—How the shapes of cost and benefit functions determine the form of optimal regulation

(2015) Silja Heilmann et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The role of stress in colicin regulation

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Agrobacterium tumefaciens Deploys a Superfamily of Type VI Secretion DNase Effectors as Weapons for Interbacterial Competition In Planta

(2014) Lay-Sun Ma et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

Type VI secretion system effectors: poisons with a purpose

(2014) Alistair B. Russell et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Importance of positioning for microbial evolution

(2014) W. Kim et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolutionary limits to cooperation in microbial communities

(2014) Nuno M. Oliveira et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tit-for-Tat: Type VI Secretion System Counterattack during Bacterial Cell-Cell Interactions

(2013) Marek Basler et al.   CELL

A View to a Kill: The Bacterial Type VI Secretion System

(2013) Brian T. Ho et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

Multicoloured greenbeards, bacteriocin diversity and the rock-paper-scissors game

(2013) J. M. Biernaskie et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Type VI secretion system regulation as a consequence of evolutionary pressure

(2013) S. T. Miyata et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Platforms for antibiotic discovery

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Competition sensing: the social side of bacterial stress responses

(2013) Daniel M. Cornforth et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Interspecies Interactions Stimulate Diversification of the Streptomyces coelicolor Secreted Metabolome

(2013) M. F. Traxler et al.   mBio

Synergy and Group Size in Microbial Cooperation

(2012) Daniel M. Cornforth et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Polymorphic toxin systems: Comprehensive characterization of trafficking modes, processing, mechanisms of action, immunity and ecology using comparative genomics

(2012) Dapeng Zhang et al.   Biology Direct

Inducible SOS Response System of DNA Repair and Mutagenesis in Escherichia coli

(2012) Celina Janion   International Journal of Biological Sciences

Acyl-homoserine lactone-dependent eavesdropping promotes competition in a laboratory co-culture model

(2012) Josephine R Chandler et al.   ISME Journal

Stability criteria for complex ecosystems

(2012) Stefano Allesina et al.   NATURE

Diversity of Interaction Types and Ecological Community Stability

(2012) A. Mougi et al.   SCIENCE

Ecological Populations of Bacteria Act as Socially Cohesive Units of Antibiotic Production and Resistance

(2012) O. X. Cordero et al.   SCIENCE

Type 6 Secretion Dynamics Within and Between Bacterial Cells

(2012) M. Basler et al.   SCIENCE

Growth dynamics and the evolution of cooperation in microbial populations

(2012) Jonas Cremer et al.   Scientific Reports

The Burkholderia bcpAIOB Genes Define Unique Classes of Two-Partner Secretion and Contact Dependent Growth Inhibition Systems

(2012) Melissa S. Anderson et al.   PLoS Genetics

The Evolution of Bacteriocin Production in Bacterial Biofilms

(2011) Vanni Bucci et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Genome-wide dynamics of a bacterial response to antibiotics that target the cell envelope

(2011) Andy Hesketh et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Social evolution in multispecies biofilms

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

Structure and Evolution of Streptomyces Interaction Networks in Soil and In Silico

(2011) Kalin Vetsigian et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Bacterial Contact-Dependent Delivery Systems

(2010) Christopher S. Hayes et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

A Type VI Secretion System of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Targets a Toxin to Bacteria

(2010) Rachel D. Hood et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

Competitive interactions in Escherichia coli populations: the role of bacteriocins

(2010) Hadeel Majeed et al.   ISME Journal

Nooks and Crannies in Type VI Secretion Regulation

(2010) C. S. Bernard et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

A widespread family of polymorphic contact-dependent toxin delivery systems in bacteria

(2010) Stephanie K. Aoki et al.   NATURE

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

Lethal protein produced in response to competition between sibling bacterial colonies

(2010) A. Be'er 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

Persistence of colicinogenic Escherichia coli in the mouse gastrointestinal tract

(2009) Osnat Gillor et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial competition: surviving and thriving in the microbial jungle

(2009) Michael E. Hibbing et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Spite and virulence in the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa

(2009) R. F. Inglis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Deadly competition between sibling bacterial colonies

(2009) A. Be'er et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Simpson's Paradox in a Synthetic Microbial System

(2009) J. S. Chuang et al.   SCIENCE

Comparative study of the pln locus of the quorum-sensing regulated bacteriocin-producing L. plantarum J51 strain

(2008) Laura Navarro et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD MICROBIOLOGY

The role of SOS boxes in enteric bacteriocin regulation

(2008) O. Gillor et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Effect of dispersal and nutrient availability on the competitive ability of toxin-producing yeast

(2008) D. M Wloch-Salamon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Evolution of Quorum Sensing in Bacterial Biofilms

(2008) Carey D Nadell et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY