Experimental Evolution as an Underutilized Tool for Studying Beneficial Animal–Microbe Interactions

Nematode-bacteria mutualism: Selection within the mutualism supersedes selection outside of the mutualism

(2016) Levi T. Morran et al.   EVOLUTION

Rapid evolution of microbe-mediated protection against pathogens in a worm host

(2016) Kayla C King et al.   ISME Journal

Addicted? Reduced host resistance in populations with defensive symbionts

(2016) Julien Martinez et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Microbes Drive Evolution of Animals and Plants: the Hologenome Concept

(2016) Eugene Rosenberg et al.   mBio

Independent origins of resistance or susceptibility of parasitic wasps to a defensive symbiont

(2016) Mariana Mateos et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Experimental Evolution on a Wild Mammal Species Results in Modifications of Gut Microbial Communities

(2016) Kevin D. Kohl et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Individual Members of the Microbiota Disproportionately Modulate Host Innate Immune Responses

(2015) Annah S. Rolig et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

Cheaters must prosper: reconciling theoretical and empirical perspectives on cheating in mutualism

(2015) Emily I. Jones et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Evolutionary change in testes tissue composition among experimental populations of house mice

(2015) Renée C. Firman et al.   EVOLUTION

The evolution of reduced antagonism-A role for host-parasite coevolution

(2015) A. K. Gibson et al.   EVOLUTION

Power Analysis of Artificial Selection Experiments Using Efficient Whole Genome Simulation of Quantitative Traits

(2015) Darren Kessner et al.   GENETICS

Restriction-Modification Systems as Mobile Genetic Elements in the Evolution of an Intracellular Symbiont

(2015) Hao Zheng et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Mycorrhizal ecology and evolution: the past, the present, and the future

(2015) Marcel G. A. van der Heijden et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Experimental replacement of an obligate insect symbiont

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

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

A ribosome-inactivating protein in aDrosophiladefensive symbiont

(2015) Phineas T. Hamilton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The genome ofAiptasia, a sea anemone model for coral symbiosis

(2015) Sebastian Baumgarten et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ecological communities by design

(2015) J. K. Fredrickson   SCIENCE

Induction of Gametogenesis in the Cnidarian Endosymbiosis Model Aiptasia sp.

(2015) Désirée Grawunder et al.   Scientific Reports

The microbiome modulates arbovirus transmission in mosquitoes

(2015) Shivanand Hegde et al.   Current Opinion in Virology

Harnessing Evolution to Elucidate the Consequences of Symbiosis

(2015) Nicole M. Gerardo   PLOS BIOLOGY

The Hologenome Concept: Helpful or Hollow?

(2015) Nancy A. Moran et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Ecological perspectives on synthetic biology: insights from microbial population biology

(2015) Ana E. Escalante et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Power Analysis of Artificial Selection Experiments Using Efficient Whole Genome Simulation of Quantitative Traits

(2015) Darren Kessner et al.   GENETICS

Infection Dynamic of Symbiotic Bacteria in the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum Gut and Host Immune Response at the Early Steps in the Infection Process

(2015) François Renoz et al.   PLoS One

Experimental Coevolution: Rapid Local Adaptation by Parasites Depends on Host Mating System

(2014) Levi T. Morran et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Gut Microbiota Elicits a Protective Immune Response against Malaria Transmission

(2014) Bahtiyar Yilmaz et al.   CELL

EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTION OF PARASITOID INFECTIVITY ON SYMBIONT-PROTECTED HOSTS LEADS TO THE EMERGENCE OF GENOTYPE SPECIFICITY

(2014) Romain Rouchet et al.   EVOLUTION

Regulation of the gut microbiota by the mucosal immune system in mice

(2014) M. Hasegawa et al.   INTERNATIONAL IMMUNOLOGY

ADrosophilalaboratory evolution experiment points to low evolutionary potential under increased temperatures likely to be experienced in the future

(2014) M. F. Schou et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

When a virus is not a parasite: the beneficial effects of prophages on bacterial fitness

(2014) Joseph Bondy-Denomy et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

Shaping Bacterial Symbiosis With Legumes by Experimental Evolution

(2014) Marta Marchetti et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

Erosion of functional independence early in the evolution of a microbial mutualism

(2014) K. L. Hillesland et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Experimental evolution of prepared learning

(2014) A. S. Dunlap et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mainstreaming Caenorhabditis elegans in experimental evolution

(2014) J. C. Gray et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Insights from the worm: The C. elegans model for innate immunity

(2014) Maria A. Ermolaeva et al.   SEMINARS IN IMMUNOLOGY

The Insect Microbiome Modulates Vector Competence for Arboviruses

(2014) Natapong Jupatanakul et al.   Viruses-Basel

Symbiosis as a General Principle in Eukaryotic Evolution

(2014) A. E. Douglas   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

An ecological cost associated with protective symbionts of aphids

(2014) Sarah Polin et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Transient Hypermutagenesis Accelerates the Evolution of Legume Endosymbionts following Horizontal Gene Transfer

(2014) Philippe Remigi et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The First Steps of Adaptation of Escherichia coli to the Gut Are Dominated by Soft Sweeps

(2014) João Barroso-Batista et al.   PLoS Genetics

Microbial experimental evolution as a novel research approach in the Vibrionaceae and squid-Vibrio symbiosis

(2014) William Soto et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The symbiont side of symbiosis: do microbes really benefit?

(2014) Justine R. Garcia et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

How Microbiomes Influence Metazoan Development:Insights from History andDrosophilaModeling of Gut-Microbe Interactions

(2013) Won-Jae Lee et al.   Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

The Human Microbiome: From Symbiosis to Pathogenesis

(2013) Emiley A. Eloe-Fadrosh et al.   Annual Review of Medicine

Genome Sequence Analysis Indicates that the Model Eukaryote Nematostella vectensis Harbors Bacterial Consorts

(2013) Irena I. Artamonova et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Symbiont-Mediated Protection against Fungal Pathogens in Pea Aphids: a Role for Pathogen Specificity?

(2013) Benjamin J. Parker et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Initial Symbiont Contact Orchestrates Host-Organ-wide Transcriptional Changes that Prime Tissue Colonization

(2013) Natacha Kremer et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

Defensive symbiosis in the real world - advancing ecological studies of heritable, protective bacteria in aphids and beyond

(2013) Kerry M. Oliver et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Statistical questions in experimental evolution

(2013) Michael M Desai   JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS-THEORY AND EXPERIMENT

Convergence of gut microbiomes in myrmecophagous mammals

(2013) Frédéric Delsuc et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Innate immune recognition of the microbiota promotes host-microbial symbiosis

(2013) Hiutung Chu et al.   NATURE IMMUNOLOGY

Evolution of Peromyscus leucopus Mice in Response to a Captive Environment

(2013) Robert C. Lacy et al.   PLoS One

Burkholderia pseudomallei suppresses Caenorhabditis elegans immunity by specific degradation of a GATA transcription factor

(2013) S.-H. Lee et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences

(2013) Margaret McFall-Ngai et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Experimental coevolution of species interactions

(2013) Michael A. Brockhurst et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Host resistance influences patterns of experimental viral adaptation and virulence evolution

(2013) Jason L Kubinak et al.   Virulence

Host-microbe interactions in the gut of Drosophila melanogaster

(2013) Takayuki Kuraishi et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

Antagonistic experimental coevolution with a parasite increases host recombination frequency

(2012) Niels AG Kerstes et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Developing the anemone Aiptasia as a tractable model for cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis: the transcriptome of aposymbiotic A. pallida

(2012) Erik M Lehnert et al.   BMC GENOMICS

C. elegans Detects Pathogen-Induced Translational Inhibition to Activate Immune Signaling

(2012) Tiffany L. Dunbar et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

Effects of predation on real-time host-parasite coevolutionary dynamics

(2012) Ville-Petri Friman et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Obligate Symbionts Activate Immune System Development in the Tsetse Fly

(2012) B. L. Weiss et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

The human microbiome: at the interface of health and disease

(2012) Ilseung Cho et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Knowing your friends: invertebrate innate immunity fosters beneficial bacterial symbioses

(2012) Spencer V. Nyholm et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Symbiodinium Transcriptomes: Genome Insights into the Dinoflagellate Symbionts of Reef-Building Corals

(2012) Till Bayer et al.   PLoS One

Experimental evolution of multicellularity

(2012) W. C. Ratcliff et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Trade-offs shape the evolution of the vector-borne insect pathogen Xenorhabdus nematophila

(2012) E. Chapuis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phage loss and the breakdown of a defensive symbiosis in aphids

(2012) S. R. Weldon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Parallel Molecular Evolution in an Herbivore Community

(2012) Y. Zhen et al.   SCIENCE

Experimental evolution

(2012) Tadeusz J. Kawecki et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Lactobacillus plantarum Promotes Drosophila Systemic Growth by Modulating Hormonal Signals through TOR-Dependent Nutrient Sensing

(2011) Gilles Storelli et al.   Cell Metabolism

Evolution and coevolution in mutualistic networks

(2011) Paulo R. Guimarães Jr et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Microbial Colonization Induces Dynamic Temporal and Spatial Patterns of NF-κB Activation in the Zebrafish Digestive Tract

(2011) Michelle Kanther et al.   GASTROENTEROLOGY

Competition and Resilience between Founder and Introduced Bacteria in the Caenorhabditis elegans Gut

(2011) Cynthia Portal-Celhay et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Rapid evolution of parasitoids when faced with the symbiont-mediated resistance of their hosts

(2011) E. DION et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

How selective sweeps in domestic animals provide new insight into biological mechanisms

(2011) L. Andersson   JOURNAL OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Using the Acropora digitifera genome to understand coral responses to environmental change

(2011) Chuya Shinzato et al.   NATURE

Extreme genome reduction in symbiotic bacteria

(2011) John P. McCutcheon et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Host-parasite local adaptation after experimental coevolution of Caenorhabditis elegans and its microparasite Bacillus thuringiensis

(2011) R. D. Schulte et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Running with the Red Queen: Host-Parasite Coevolution Selects for Biparental Sex

(2011) L. T. Morran et al.   SCIENCE

Bacteria-Phage Antagonistic Coevolution in Soil

(2011) P. Gomez et al.   SCIENCE

New paradigms for the evolution of beneficial infections

(2011) Joel L. Sachs et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The Genome Sequence of the Leaf-Cutter Ant Atta cephalotes Reveals Insights into Its Obligate Symbiotic Lifestyle

(2011) Garret Suen et al.   PLoS Genetics

Experimental Adaptation of Burkholderia cenocepacia to Onion Medium Reduces Host Range

(2010) C. N. Ellis et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Experimental evolution of specialization by a microsporidian parasite

(2010) Mathieu Legros et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

NOVEL COOPERATION EXPERIMENTALLY EVOLVED BETWEEN SPECIES

(2010) William Harcombe   EVOLUTION

Genomic insight into the amino acid relations of the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum, with its symbiotic bacterium Buchnera aphidicola

(2010) A. C. C. Wilson et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Genome-wide analysis of a long-term evolution experiment with Drosophila

(2010) Molly K. Burke et al.   NATURE

Evolutionary microbial genomics: insights into bacterial host adaptation

(2010) Christina Toft et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Rapid evolution of stability and productivity at the origin of a microbial mutualism

(2010) K. L. Hillesland et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Breaking the language barrier: experimental evolution of non-native Vibrio fischeri in squid tailors luminescence to the host

(2010) Brian M. Schuster et al.   SYMBIOSIS

Experimental Evolution of a Plant Pathogen into a Legume Symbiont

(2010) Marta Marchetti et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Distinct Pathogenesis and Host Responses during Infection of C. elegans by P. aeruginosa and S. aureus

(2010) Javier E. Irazoqui et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Immunity and other defenses in pea aphids, Acyrthosiphon pisum

(2010) Nicole M Gerardo et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

A strain of the bacterial symbiont Regiella insecticola protects aphids against parasitoids

(2009) C. Vorburger et al.   Biology Letters

Symbioses: A Key Driver of Insect Physiological Processes, Ecological Interactions, Evolutionary Diversification, and Impacts on Humans

(2009) K. D. Klepzig et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

GROUP SELECTION ON POPULATION SIZE AFFECTS LIFE-HISTORY PATTERNS IN THE ENTOMOPATHOGENIC NEMATODESTEINERNEMA CARPOCAPSAE

(2009) Farrah Bashey et al.   EVOLUTION

The evolution of facilitation and mutualism

(2009) Judith L. Bronstein   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The nature of selection during plant domestication

(2009) Michael D. Purugganan et al.   NATURE

Hamiltonella defensa, genome evolution of protective bacterial endosymbiont from pathogenic ancestors

(2009) P. H. Degnan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mosquitoes Put the Brake on Arbovirus Evolution: Experimental Evolution Reveals Slower Mutation Accumulation in Mosquito Than Vertebrate Cells

(2009) Nikos Vasilakis et al.   PLoS Pathogens

The Xenorhabdus nematophila nilABC Genes Confer the Ability of Xenorhabdus spp. To Colonize Steinernema carpocapsae Nematodes

(2008) C. E. Cowles et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Low migration decreases interference competition among parasites and increases virulence

(2008) F. VIGNEUX et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotic evolution

(2008) Patrick J. Keeling et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Symbiotic conversations are revealed under genetic interrogation

(2008) Edward G. Ruby   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Historical contingency and the evolution of a key innovation in an experimental population of Escherichia coli

(2008) Z. D. Blount et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Population dynamics of defensive symbionts in aphids

(2007) K. M Oliver et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES