Understanding Microbial Divisions of Labor

Kin Recognition in Bacteria

(2016) Daniel Wall   Annual Review of Microbiology

Fine-scale spatial ecology drives kin selection relatedness among cooperating amoebae

(2016) jeff smith et al.   EVOLUTION

Kin Discrimination inDictyosteliumSocial Amoebae

(2016) Joan E. Strassmann   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Division of labour in microorganisms: an evolutionary perspective

(2016) Stuart A. West et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Cross-membranes orchestrate compartmentalization and morphogenesis in Streptomyces

(2016) Katherine Celler et al.   Nature Communications

Subcompartmentalization by cross-membranes during early growth of Streptomyces hyphae

(2016) Paula Yagüe et al.   Nature Communications

Rapid radiation in bacteria leads to a division of labour

(2016) Wook Kim et al.   Nature Communications

Myxobacteria: Moving, Killing, Feeding, and Surviving Together

(2016) José Muñoz-Dorado et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Multiple allosteric effectors control the affinity of DasR for its target sites

(2015) Elodie Tenconi et al.   BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

Fitness Trade-offs Result in the Illusion of Social Success

(2015) Jason B. Wolf et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Selective transport between heterogeneous hyphal compartments via the plasma membrane lining septal walls of Aspergillus niger

(2015) Robert-Jan Bleichrodt et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

Taxonomy, Physiology, and Natural Products of Actinobacteria

(2015) Essaid Ait Barka et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Fitness tradeoffs between spores and nonaggregating cells can explain the coexistence of diverse genotypes in cellular slime molds

(2015) Corina E. Tarnita et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rapid and widespread de novo evolution of kin discrimination

(2015) Olaya Rendueles et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The type VI secretion system of Vibrio cholerae fosters horizontal gene transfer

(2015) S. Borgeaud et al.   SCIENCE

From Cell Differentiation to Cell Collectives: Bacillus subtilis Uses Division of Labor to Migrate

(2015) Jordi van Gestel et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Bacterial solutions to multicellularity: a tale of biofilms, filaments and fruiting bodies

(2014) Dennis Claessen et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Fatty Acids from Membrane Lipids Become Incorporated into Lipid Bodies during Myxococcus xanthus Differentiation

(2014) Swapna Bhat et al.   PLoS One

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

Social complementation and growth advantages promote socially defective bacterial isolates

(2014) S. A. Kraemer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Two Lipid Signals Guide Fruiting Body Development of Myxococcus xanthus

(2014) S. Bhat et al.   mBio

Heterogeneity in the mycelium: implications for the use of fungi as cell factories

(2013) Han A. B. Wösten et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY LETTERS

Group Formation, Relatedness, and the Evolution of Multicellularity

(2013) Roberta M. Fisher et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Kin Recognition Protects Cooperators against Cheaters

(2013) Hsing-I Ho et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Structured growth and genetic drift raise relatedness in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

(2012) N. J. Buttery et al.   Biology Letters

Hyphal heterogeneity inAspergillus oryzaeis the result of dynamic closure of septa by Woronin bodies

(2012) Robert-Jan Bleichrodt et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Advantages of the division of labour for the long-term population dynamics of cyanobacteria at different latitudes

(2012) V. Rossetti et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

How social evolution theory impacts our understanding of development in the social amoeba Dictyostelium

(2011) Joan E. Strassmann et al.   DEVELOPMENT GROWTH & DIFFERENTIATION

Antibiotic Production by Myxobacteria Plays a Role in Predation

(2011) Y. Xiao et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Endemic social diversity within natural kin groups of a cooperative bacterium

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

Kin Discrimination and Cooperation in Microbes

(2010) Joan E. Strassmann et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Comparative Analysis of Myxococcus Predation on Soil Bacteria

(2010) A. D. Morgan et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Heterogenic expression of genes encoding secreted proteins at the periphery of Aspergillus niger colonies

(2010) Arman Vinck et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

ON THE PARADIGM OF ALTRUISTIC SUICIDE IN THE UNICELLULAR WORLD

(2010) Aurora M. Nedelcu et al.   EVOLUTION

Natural variation in developmental life-history traits of the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus

(2010) Susanne A. Kraemer et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

The cooperative amoeba: Dictyostelium as a model for social evolution

(2010) Si. I. Li et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Sociobiology of the Myxobacteria

(2009) Gregory J. Velicer et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Quantification of Social Behavior in D. discoideum Reveals Complex Fixed and Facultative Strategies

(2009) Neil J. Buttery et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Social Conflict in Centimeter-and Global-Scale Populations of the Bacterium Myxococcus xanthus

(2009) Michiel Vos et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The evolutionary path to terminal differentiation and division of labor in cyanobacteria

(2009) Valentina Rossetti et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Discovery of a large clonal patch of a social amoeba: implications for social evolution

(2009) OWEN M GILBERT et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Compartmentalized function through cell differentiation in filamentous cyanobacteria

(2009) Enrique Flores et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Bistability, Epigenetics, and Bet-Hedging in Bacteria

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

Feast or famine: the global regulator DasR links nutrient stress to antibiotic production by Streptomyces

(2008) Sébastien Rigali et al.   EMBO REPORTS

Genetic and genomic analyses of the division of labour in insect societies

(2008) Chris R. Smith et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Streptomyces morphogenetics: dissecting differentiation in a filamentous bacterium

(2008) Klas Flärdh et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY