Cooperation in microbial communities and their biotechnological applications

Eco-evolutionary feedbacks can rescue cooperation in microbial populations

(2017) Clara Moreno-Fenoll et al.   Scientific Reports

Metabolic modelling in a dynamic evolutionary framework predicts adaptive diversification of bacteria in a long-term evolution experiment

(2016) Tobias Großkopf et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Microbial diversity arising from thermodynamic constraints

(2016) Tobias Großkopf et al.   ISME Journal

Quorum sensing protects bacterial co-operation from exploitation by cheats

(2016) Richard C Allen et al.   ISME Journal

Engineering microbial consortia for controllable outputs

(2016) Stephen R Lindemann et al.   ISME Journal

Challenges in microbial ecology: building predictive understanding of community function and dynamics

(2016) Stefanie Widder et al.   ISME Journal

Segregating metabolic processes into different microbial cells accelerates the consumption of inhibitory substrates

(2016) Elin E Lilja et al.   ISME Journal

Synthetic Ecology of Microbes: Mathematical Models and Applications

(2016) Ali R. Zomorrodi et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Engineering synthetic bacterial consortia for enhanced desulfurization and revalorization of oil sulfur compounds

(2016) Igor Martínez et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Spatial structure, cooperation and competition in biofilms

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

Evolutionary game theory using agent-based methods

(2016) Christoph Adami et al.   Physics of Life Reviews

A bacterium that degrades and assimilates poly(ethylene terephthalate)

(2016) Shosuke Yoshida et al.   SCIENCE

Rapid radiation in bacteria leads to a division of labour

(2016) Wook Kim et al.   Nature Communications

Self-organized patchiness facilitates survival in a cooperatively growing Bacillus subtilis population

(2016) Christoph Ratzke et al.   Nature Microbiology

Exploring mutualistic interactions between microalgae and bacteria in the omics age

(2015) Matthew B Cooper et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Release of ecologically relevant metabolites by the cyanobacteriumSynechococcus elongatus CCMP 1631

(2015) Cara L. Fiore et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

(2015) Samay Pande et al.   ISME Journal

Microbial catabolic activities are naturally selected by metabolic energy harvest rate

(2015) Rebeca González-Cabaleiro et al.   ISME Journal

Overflow metabolism in Escherichia coli results from efficient proteome allocation

(2015) Markus Basan et al.   NATURE

Metabolic co-dependence gives rise to collective oscillations within biofilms

(2015) Jintao Liu et al.   NATURE

Distributing a metabolic pathway among a microbial consortium enhances production of natural products

(2015) Kang Zhou et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Thermodynamics-based design of microbial cell factories for anaerobic product formation

(2015) Hugo F. Cueto-Rojas et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Migration and horizontal gene transfer divide microbial genomes into multiple niches

(2015) Rene Niehus et al.   Nature Communications

Calibration and analysis of genome-based models for microbial ecology

(2015) Stilianos Louca et al.   eLife

Plastic waste as a novel substrate for industrial biotechnology

(2015) Nick Wierckx et al.   Microbial Biotechnology

Extracellular Lipase and Protease Production from a Model Drinking Water Bacterial Community Is Functionally Robust to Absence of Individual Members

(2015) Graham G. Willsey et al.   PLoS One

Effect of high loading on substrate utilization kinetics and microbial community structure in super fast submerged membrane bioreactor

(2014) S. Sözen et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

Metabolic Resource Allocation in Individual Microbes Determines Ecosystem Interactions and Spatial Dynamics

(2014) William R. Harcombe et al.   Cell Reports

Spatial Population Expansion Promotes the Evolution of Cooperation in an Experimental Prisoner’s Dilemma

(2013) J. David Van Dyken et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Linking thermodynamics and kinetics to assess pathway reversibility in anaerobic bioprocesses

(2013) Rebeca González-Cabaleiro et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

The private life of environmental bacteria: pollutant biodegradation at the single cell level

(2013) Pablo Iván Nikel et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Plasticity facilitates sustainable growth in the commons

(2013) M. Cavaliere et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Horizontal gene transfer in osmotrophs: playing with public goods

(2013) Thomas A. Richards et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Range expansion promotes cooperation in an experimental microbial metapopulation

(2013) M. S. Datta et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Glycolytic strategy as a tradeoff between energy yield and protein cost

(2013) A. Flamholz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Design and characterization of synthetic fungal-bacterial consortia for direct production of isobutanol from cellulosic biomass

(2013) Jeremy J. Minty et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Availability of public goods shapes the evolution of competing metabolic strategies

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

The interplay between relatedness and horizontal gene transfer drives the evolution of plasmid-carried public goods

(2013) S. E. Mc Ginty et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Feedback between Population and Evolutionary Dynamics Determines the Fate of Social Microbial Populations

(2013) Alvaro Sanchez et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Redox balance is key to explaining full vs. partial switching to low-yield metabolism

(2012) Milan JA van Hoek et al.   BMC Systems Biology

Methanogenic biodegradation of two-ringed polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

(2012) Carolina Berdugo-Clavijo et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Physiological heterogeneities in microbial populations and implications for physical stress tolerance

(2012) Magnus Carlquist et al.   Microbial Cell Factories

Extensive exometabolome analysis reveals extended overflow metabolism in various microorganisms

(2012) Nicole Paczia et al.   Microbial Cell Factories

Stochasticity of TOL plasmid catabolic promoters sets a bimodal expression regime inPseudomonas putidamt-2 exposed tom-xylene

(2012) Rafael Silva-Rocha et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

CELLULOSE DEGRADATION BY OXIDATIVE ENZYMES

(2012) Maria Dimarogona et al.   Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal

The genome sequence of Desulfatibacillum alkenivorans AK-01: a blueprint for anaerobic alkane oxidation

(2011) A. V. Callaghan et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Economics of membrane occupancy and respiro-fermentation

(2011) K. Zhuang et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

The Newest Synthesis: Understanding the Interplay of Evolutionary and Ecological Dynamics

(2011) T. W. Schoener   SCIENCE

Quantification of syntrophic acetate-oxidizing microbial communities in biogas processes

(2011) Maria Westerholm et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Origin and analysis of microbial population heterogeneity in bioprocesses

(2010) Susann Müller et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

What traits are carried on mobile genetic elements and why?

(2010) D J Rankin et al.   HEREDITY

Biochemical characterization of the cutinases from Thermobifida fusca

(2010) Sheng Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR CATALYSIS B-ENZYMATIC

Distributed biological computation with multicellular engineered networks

(2010) Sergi Regot et al.   NATURE

Evolutionary game theory: Theoretical concepts and applications to microbial communities

(2010) Erwin Frey   PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS

Sociobiology of the Myxobacteria

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

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

(2009) Teresa Nogueira et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

DENSITY DEPENDENCE AND COOPERATION: THEORY AND A TEST WITH BACTERIA

(2009) Adin Ross-Gillespie et al.   EVOLUTION

Shifts in growth strategies reflect tradeoffs in cellular economics

(2009) Douwe Molenaar et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

Snowdrift game dynamics and facultative cheating in yeast

(2009) Jeff Gore et al.   NATURE

Phenotype Fingerprinting Suggests the Involvement of Single-Genotype Consortia in Degradation of Aromatic Compounds by Rhodopseudomonas palustris

(2009) Tatiana V. Karpinets et al.   PLoS One

On the Origin of Cooperation

(2009) E. Pennisi   SCIENCE

Simpson's Paradox in a Synthetic Microbial System

(2009) J. S. Chuang et al.   SCIENCE

Phenotypic plasticity of a cooperative behaviour in bacteria

(2008) R. KÜMMERLI et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Self-destructive cooperation mediated by phenotypic noise

(2008) Martin Ackermann et al.   NATURE

Resistance, resilience, and redundancy in microbial communities

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

Ecological public goods games: Cooperation and bifurcation

(2008) Christoph Hauert et al.   THEORETICAL POPULATION BIOLOGY