The ecology and evolution of social behavior in microbes

Robust DNA Methylation in the Clonal Raider Ant Brain

(2016) Romain Libbrecht et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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

(2016) Stefanie Widder et al.   ISME Journal

Demographic noise can reverse the direction of deterministic selection

(2016) George W. A. Constable et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Presence of a loner strain maintains cooperation and diversity in well-mixed bacterial communities

(2016) R. F. Inglis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Fermented Foods as Experimentally Tractable Microbial Ecosystems

(2015) Benjamin E. Wolfe et al.   CELL

Social Evolution: Slimy Cheats Pay a Price

(2015) Siobhan O’Brien et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Fitness Trade-offs Result in the Illusion of Social Success

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

Erratum: Corrigendum: Human gut Bacteroidetes can utilize yeast mannan through a selfish mechanism

(2015) Fiona Cuskin et al.   NATURE

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

Kin discrimination between sympatricBacillus subtilisisolates

(2015) Polonca Stefanic et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Precarious development: The uncertain social life of cellular slime molds

(2015) Paul B. Rainey   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The littlest farmhands

(2015) J. de Vrieze   SCIENCE

The ecology of the microbiome: Networks, competition, and stability

(2015) K. Z. Coyte et al.   SCIENCE

The evolution of adhesiveness as a social adaptation

(2015) Thomas Garcia et al.   eLife

Resolving Conflicts During the Evolutionary Transition to Multicellular Life

(2014) Paul B. Rainey et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Microbes are not bound by sociobiology: Response to Kümmerli and Ross-Gillespie (2013)

(2014) Paul B. Rainey 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

Life cycles, fitness decoupling and the evolution of multicellularity

(2014) Katrin Hammerschmidt et al.   NATURE

Transitions in social complexity along elevational gradients reveal a combined impact of season length and development time on social evolution

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

Differential Adhesion between Moving Particles as a Mechanism for the Evolution of Social Groups

(2014) Thomas Garcia et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Solutions to the Public Goods Dilemma in Bacterial Biofilms

(2013) Knut Drescher et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

EXPLAINING THE SOCIOBIOLOGY OF PYOVERDIN PRODUCINGPSEUDOMONAS: A COMMENT ON ZHANG AND RAINEY (2013)

(2013) Rolf Kümmerli et al.   EVOLUTION

EXPLORING THE SOCIOBIOLOGY OF PYOVERDIN-PRODUCINGPSEUDOMONAS

(2013) Xue-Xian Zhang et al.   EVOLUTION

Interspecies and intraspecies interactions in social amoebae

(2013) S. Sathe et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

A Y-like social chromosome causes alternative colony organization in fire ants

(2013) John Wang et al.   NATURE

Cell-cell contacts confine public goods diffusion inside Pseudomonas aeruginosa clonal microcolonies

(2013) T. Julou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bacillus subtilis biofilm induction by plant polysaccharides

(2013) P. B. Beauregard et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Sociogenomics of Cooperation and Conflict during Colony Founding in the Fire Ant Solenopsis invicta

(2013) Fabio Manfredini et al.   PLoS Genetics

Spatial dilemmas of diffusible public goods

(2013) Benjamin Allen et al.   eLife

Selection for altruism through random drift in variable size populations

(2012) Bahram Houchmandzadeh et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Contingency and Statistical Laws in Replicate Microbial Closed Ecosystems

(2012) Doeke R. Hekstra et al.   CELL

Evolutionary construction by staying together and coming together

(2012) Corina E. Tarnita et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Spontaneous Gac Mutants of Pseudomonas Biological Control Strains: Cheaters or Mutualists?

(2011) William W. Driscoll et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Evolution of cooperation and control of cheating in a social microbe

(2011) J. E. Strassmann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Spatiotemporal environmental variation, risk aversion, and the evolution of cooperative breeding as a bet-hedging strategy

(2011) D. R. Rubenstein   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Use of Ichip for High-Throughput In Situ Cultivation of "Uncultivable" Microbial Species

(2010) D. Nichols et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Cheats as first propagules: A new hypothesis for the evolution of individuality during the transition from single cells to multicellularity

(2010) Paul B. Rainey et al.   BIOESSAYS

It takes grouping and cooperation to get sociality

(2010) Matthijs van Veelen et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Genetic Heterogeneity in Wild Isolates of Cellular Slime Mold Social Groups

(2010) Santosh Sathe et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

The evolution of eusociality

(2010) Martin A. Nowak et al.   NATURE

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

Strategy selection in structured populations

(2009) Corina E. Tarnita et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Snowdrift game dynamics and facultative cheating in yeast

(2009) Jeff Gore et al.   NATURE

Cooperation between non-kin in animal societies

(2009) Tim Clutton-Brock   NATURE

Evolutionary dynamics in structured populations

(2009) M. A. Nowak et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evolutionary dynamics in set structured populations

(2009) C. E. Tarnita et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolution of cooperation by phenotypic similarity

(2009) T. Antal et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Assortment is a more fundamental explanation for the evolution of altruism than inclusive fitness or multilevel selection: reply to Bijma and Aanen

(2009) J. A. Fletcher et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Kin Discrimination Increases with Genetic Distance in a Social Amoeba

(2008) Elizabeth A Ostrowski et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY