Bacterial cooperation through horizontal gene transfer

Adaptive evolution of hybrid bacteria by horizontal gene transfer

(2021) Jeffrey J. Power et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Extending the range of additivity in using inclusive fitness

(2021) Samuel R. Levin et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Evidence for selection in the abundant accessory gene content of a prokaryote pangenome

(2021) Fiona J Whelan et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Variability of plasmid fitness effects contributes to plasmid persistence in bacterial communities

(2021) Aida Alonso-del Valle et al.   Nature Communications

Evolution of altruistic punishments among heterogeneous conditional cooperators

(2021) Balaraju Battu   Scientific Reports

Evolutionary mechanisms that determine which bacterial genes are carried on plasmids

(2021) Sonja Lehtinen et al.   Evolution Letters

Mechanisms driving genome reduction of a novel Roseobacter lineage

(2021) Xiaoyuan Feng et al.   ISME Journal

Evolution of prosocial punishment in unstructured and structured populations and in the presence of antisocial punishment

(2021) Mohammad Salahshour   PLoS One

On the role of hypocrisy in escaping the tragedy of the commons

(2021) Amos Korman et al.   Scientific Reports

Multilevel selection favors fragmentation modes that maintain cooperative interactions in multispecies communities

(2021) Gil J. B. Henriques et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Nationwide genomic atlas of soil-dwelling Listeria reveals effects of selection and population ecology on pangenome evolution

(2021) Jingqiu Liao et al.   Nature Microbiology

Biofilms can act as plasmid reserves in the absence of plasmid specific selection

(2021) Henriette Lyng Røder et al.   npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Biofilms: Hot spots of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in aquatic environments, with a focus on a new HGT mechanism

(2020) Kimihiro Abe et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Plasmids persist in a microbial community by providing fitness benefit to multiple phylotypes

(2020) Liguan Li et al.   ISME Journal

EVOLVING POPULATIONS IN BIOFILMS CONTAIN MORE PERSISTENT PLASMIDS

(2020) Thibault Stalder et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Recombination and gene loss occur simultaneously during bacterial horizontal gene transfer

(2020) Bert Ely   PLoS One

Community diversity and habitat structure shape the repertoire of extracellular proteins in bacteria

(2020) Marc Garcia-Garcera et al.   Nature Communications

Coexistence and cooperation in structured habitats

(2020) Lukas Geyrhofer et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

Slightly beneficial genes are retained by bacteria evolving DNA uptake despite selfish elements

(2020) Bram van Dijk et al.   eLife

Reduced Genome of the Gut Symbiotic Bacterium “Candidatus Benitsuchiphilus tojoi” Provides Insight Into Its Possible Roles in Ecology and Adaptation of the Host Insect

(2020) Shakhinur Islam Mondal et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Isolation and Comparative Genomics of Mycoavidus sp. B2-EB Reveals Minimal Genomic Features Required by cultivable Burkholderiaceae-related Endofungal Bacterium

(2020) Yong Guo et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The Evolution of Mass Cell Suicide in Bacterial Warfare

(2020) Elisa T. Granato et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Extensive antimicrobial resistance mobilization via multicopy plasmid encapsidation mediated by temperate phages

(2020) Lorena Rodríguez-Rubio et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Evolutionary Stabilization of Cooperative Toxin Production through a Bacterium-Plasmid-Phage Interplay

(2020) Stefanie Spriewald et al.   mBio

Horizontal Gene Transfer as a Source of Conflict and Cooperation in Prokaryotes

(2020) Rebecca J. Hall et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Can mobile genetic elements rescue genes from extinction?

(2020) Bram van Dijk   CURRENT GENETICS

Experimental Evolution of Bacillus subtilis Reveals the Evolutionary Dynamics of Horizontal Gene Transfer and Suggests Adaptive and Neutral Effects

(2020) Shai Slomka et al.   GENETICS

Horizontal gene transfer potentiates adaptation by reducing selective constraints on the spread of genetic variation

(2020) Laura C. Woods et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plasmid Interactions Can Improve Plasmid Persistence in Bacterial Populations

(2020) João Alves Gama et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Dominance Between Plasmids Determines the Extent of Biofilm Formation

(2020) João Alves Gama et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Selfishness driving reductive evolution shapes interdependent patterns in spatially structured microbial communities

(2020) Miaoxiao Wang et al.   ISME Journal

Understanding policing as a mechanism of cheater control in cooperating bacteria

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

Marine Synechococcus isolates representing globally abundant genomic lineages demonstrate a unique evolutionary path of genome reduction without a decrease in GC content

(2019) Michael D. Lee et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Behavioral heterogeneity in quorum sensing can stabilize social cooperation in microbial populations

(2019) Kelei Zhao et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Acetate metabolism and the inhibition of bacterial growth by acetate

(2019) Stéphane Pinhal et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

The replicator dynamics for multilevel selection in evolutionary games

(2019) Daniel B. Cooney   JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY

Entanglement renders free riding redundant in the thermodynamic limit

(2019) Shubhayan Sarkar et al.   PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS

Individual solutions to shared problems create a modern tragedy of the commons

(2019) Jörg Gross et al.   Science Advances

Public goods and cheating in microbes

(2019) Parker Smith et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Bacteria from natural populations transfer plasmids mostly towards their kin

(2019) Tatiana Dimitriu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Enforcement is central to the evolution of cooperation

(2019) J. Arvid Ågren et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Multilayered horizontal operon transfers from bacteria reconstruct a thiamine salvage pathway in yeasts

(2019) Carla Gonçalves et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Negative frequency dependent selection on plasmid carriage and low fitness costs maintain extended spectrum β-lactamases in Escherichia coli

(2019) Tatiana Dimitriu et al.   Scientific Reports

Biofilms facilitate cheating and social exploitation of β-lactam resistance in Escherichia coli

(2019) Elli Amanatidou et al.   npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Plasmid persistence: costs, benefits, and the plasmid paradox

(2018) Amanda C. Carroll et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

Cheating on Cheaters Stabilizes Cooperation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

(2018) Özhan Özkaya et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Local interactions and self-organized spatial patterns stabilize microbial cross-feeding against cheaters

(2018) Simon Maccracken Stump et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Neutral Theory, Microbial Practice: Challenges in Bacterial Population Genetics

(2018) Eduardo P C Rocha   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Lineage-specific plasmid acquisition and the evolution of specialized pathogens in Bacillus thuringiensis and the Bacillus cereus group

(2018) Guillaume Méric et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Metabolic enzyme cost explains variable trade-offs between microbial growth rate and yield

(2018) Meike T. Wortel et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Cheating, facilitation and cooperation regulate the effectiveness of phage-encoded exotoxins as antipredator molecules

(2018) Iqbal Aijaz et al.   MicrobiologyOpen

What are the advantages of living in a community? A microbial biofilm perspective!

(2018) André Luis Souza dos Santos et al.   MEMORIAS DO INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ

Fitness cost of a mcr-1-carrying IncHI2 plasmid

(2018) Ke Ma et al.   PLoS One

Each of 3,323 metabolic innovations in the evolution of E. coli arose through the horizontal transfer of a single DNA segment

(2018) Tin Yau Pang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Enhanced Biofilm Formation and Membrane Vesicle Release by Escherichia coli Expressing a Commonly Occurring Plasmid Gene, kil

(2018) Ryoma Nakao et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Second-order cooperation: Cooperative offspring as a living public good arising from second-order selection on non-cooperative individuals

(2017) Antoine Frénoy et al.   EVOLUTION

Evolution of Sphingomonad Gene Clusters Related to Pesticide Catabolism Revealed by Genome Sequence and Mobilomics of Sphingobium herbicidovorans MH

(2017) Tue Kjærgaard Nielsen et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Maintenance of Microbial Cooperation Mediated by Public Goods in Single- and Multiple-Trait Scenarios

(2017) Özhan Özkaya et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Disentangling the effects of selection and loss bias on gene dynamics

(2017) Jaime Iranzo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Persistence and reversal of plasmid-mediated antibiotic resistance

(2017) Allison J. Lopatkin et al.   Nature Communications

Why prokaryotes have pangenomes

(2017) James O. McInerney et al.   Nature Microbiology

Supra-operonic clusters of functionally related genes (SOCs) are a source of horizontal gene co-transfers

(2017) Tin Yau Pang et al.   Scientific Reports

Bet-hedging in bacteriocin producing Escherichia coli populations: the single cell perspective

(2017) Bihter Bayramoglu et al.   Scientific Reports

It’s the song, not the singer: an exploration of holobiosis and evolutionary theory

(2016) W. Ford Doolittle et al.   BIOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY

High cost enhances cooperation through the interplay between evolution and self-organisation

(2016) Enrico Sandro Colizzi et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

A Combinatorial Kin Discrimination System in Bacillus subtilis

(2016) Nicholas A. Lyons et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Inevitability of Genetic Parasites

(2016) Jaime Iranzo et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Low biological cost of carbapenemase-encoding plasmids following transfer from Klebsiella pneumoniae to Escherichia coli

(2016) Maria Chiara Di Luca et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Theory of prokaryotic genome evolution

(2016) Itamar Sela et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Source–sink plasmid transfer dynamics maintain gene mobility in soil bacterial communities

(2016) James P. J. Hall et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Coevolution of the Organization and Structure of Prokaryotic Genomes

(2016) Marie Touchon et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Indirect Fitness Benefits Enable the Spread of Host Genes Promoting Costly Transfer of Beneficial Plasmids

(2016) Tatiana Dimitriu et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Parasites Sustain and Enhance RNA-Like Replicators through Spatial Self-Organisation

(2016) Enrico Sandro Colizzi et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

The fitness burden imposed by synthesising quorum sensing signals

(2016) A. Ruparell et al.   Scientific Reports

Parallel Compensatory Evolution Stabilizes Plasmids across the Parasitism-Mutualism Continuum

(2015) Ellie Harrison et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

In Silico Gene-Level Evolution Explains Microbial Population Diversity through Differential Gene Mobility

(2015) Bram van Dijk et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Horizontal gene transfer: building the web of life

(2015) Shannon M. Soucy et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Long-term social dynamics drive loss of function in pathogenic bacteria

(2015) Sandra Breum Andersen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The evolution of adhesiveness as a social adaptation

(2015) Thomas Garcia et al.   eLife

The pan-genome as a shared genomic resource: mutual cheating, cooperation and the black queen hypothesis

(2015) Matthew S. Fullmer et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Genetic information transfer promotes cooperation in bacteria

(2014) T. Dimitriu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Public goods in relation to competition, cooperation, and spite

(2014) S. A. Levin   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

Effects of Biofilm Growth on Plasmid Copy Number and Expression of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Enterococcus faecalis

(2013) L. C. Cook et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Solutions to the Public Goods Dilemma in Bacterial Biofilms

(2013) Knut Drescher et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The evolution of bacterial mutation rates under simultaneous selection by interspecific and social parasitism

(2013) S. O'Brien et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

WHEN HAWKS GIVE RISE TO DOVES: THE EVOLUTION AND TRANSITION OF ENFORCEMENT STRATEGIES

(2012) Omar Tonsi Eldakar et al.   EVOLUTION

The interconnection between biofilm formation and horizontal gene transfer

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

The Black Queen Hypothesis: Evolution of Dependencies through Adaptive Gene Loss

(2012) J. J. Morris et al.   mBio

EIGHT CRITICISMS NOT TO MAKE ABOUT GROUP SELECTION

(2011) Omar Tonsi Eldakar et al.   EVOLUTION

THE CONCURRENT EVOLUTION OF COOPERATION AND THE POPULATION STRUCTURES THAT SUPPORT IT

(2011) Simon T. Powers et al.   EVOLUTION

The genetical theory of kin selection

(2011) A. GARDNER et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER AND THE EVOLUTION OF BACTERIAL COOPERATION

(2010) Sorcha E. Mc Ginty et al.   EVOLUTION

Repression of competition favours cooperation: experimental evidence from bacteria

(2010) R. KÜMMERLI et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Conditions for the Evolution of Gene Clusters in Bacterial Genomes

(2010) Sara Ballouz et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Horizontal Gene Transfer of the Secretome Drives the Evolution of Bacterial Cooperation and Virulence

(2009) Teresa Nogueira et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Genomics of bacteria and archaea: the emerging dynamic view of the prokaryotic world

(2008) E. V. Koonin et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH