Pervasive Selection for Cooperative Cross-Feeding in Bacterial Communities

Privatization of cooperative benefits stabilizes mutualistic cross-feeding interactions in spatially structured environments

(2015) Samay Pande et al.   ISME Journal

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

(2014) Glen D'Souza et al.   EVOLUTION

Density of founder cells affects spatial pattern formation and cooperation in Bacillus subtilis biofilms

(2014) Jordi van Gestel et al.   ISME Journal

Quantifying the effects of the division of labor in metabolic pathways

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

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

Solutions to the Public Goods Dilemma in Bacterial Biofilms

(2013) Knut Drescher et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Fitness and stability of obligate cross-feeding interactions that emerge upon gene loss in bacteria

(2013) Samay Pande et al.   ISME Journal

Metabolic and Demographic Feedbacks Shape the Emergent Spatial Structure and Function of Microbial Communities

(2013) Sylvie Estrela et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Spatial self-organization favors heterotypic cooperation over cheating

(2013) Babak Momeni et al.   eLife

Spatial Structure and Interspecific Cooperation: Theory and an Empirical Test Using the Mycorrhizal Mutualism

(2012) Erik Verbruggen et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Next-generation sequencing technologies for environmental DNA research

(2012) SHADI SHOKRALLA et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

(2012) J. J. Morris et al.   mBio

Culture-independent methods for studying environmental microorganisms: methods, application, and perspective

(2011) Can Su et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

The ODD protocol: A review and first update

(2010) Volker Grimm et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

The effect of nutrient deposition on bacterial communities in Arctic tundra soil

(2010) Barbara J. Campbell et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Dynamics in the mixed microbial concourse

(2010) E. H. Wintermute et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Survival of Escherichia coli in the environment: fundamental and public health aspects

(2010) Jan Dirk van Elsas et al.   ISME Journal

Ecological succession in long-term experimentally evolved biofilms produces synergistic communities

(2010) Steffen R Poltak et al.   ISME Journal

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

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

Unraveling Microbial Interactions in Food Fermentations: from Classical to Genomics Approaches

(2008) S. Sieuwerts et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The Microbial Engines That Drive Earth's Biogeochemical Cycles

(2008) P. G. Falkowski et al.   SCIENCE