Private benefits and metabolic conflicts shape the emergence of microbial interdependencies

Sociality in Escherichia coli: Enterochelin Is a Private Good at Low Cell Density and Can Be Shared at High Cell Density

(2015) Rebecca L. Scholz et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Black Queen evolution: the role of leakiness in structuring microbial communities

(2015) J. Jeffrey Morris   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Quorum sensing triggers the stochastic escape of individual cells from Pseudomonas putida biofilms

(2015) Gerardo Cárcamo-Oyarce et al.   Nature Communications

Privatization and property in biology

(2014) Joan E. Strassmann et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Sympatric Speciation in a Bacterial Endosymbiont Results in Two Genomes with the Functionality of One

(2014) James T. Van Leuven et al.   CELL

Habitat structure and the evolution of diffusible siderophores in bacteria

(2014) Rolf Kümmerli et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

(2014) Glen D'Souza et al.   EVOLUTION

COEXISTENCE OF EVOLVING BACTERIA STABILIZED BY A SHARED BLACK QUEEN FUNCTION

(2014) J. Jeffrey Morris et al.   EVOLUTION

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

Genetic drift opposes mutualism during spatial population expansion

(2014) M. J. I. Muller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Syntrophic exchange in synthetic microbial communities

(2014) M. T. Mee 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

Niche engineering demonstrates a latent capacity for fungal-algal mutualism

(2014) E. F. Y. Hom et al.   SCIENCE

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

An Ecological Network of Polysaccharide Utilization among Human Intestinal Symbionts

(2013) Seth Rakoff-Nahoum 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

Bacterial cheating drives the population dynamics of cooperative antibiotic resistance plasmids

(2013) Eugene A Yurtsev et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

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

The Fate of Cooperation during Range Expansions

(2013) Kirill S. Korolev   PLoS Computational Biology

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

From Metabolism to Ecology: Cross-Feeding Interactions Shape the Balance between Polymicrobial Conflict and Mutualism

(2012) Sylvie Estrela et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Ecological interactions drive evolutionary loss of traits

(2012) Jacintha Ellers et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Metabolic specialization and the assembly of microbial communities

(2012) David R Johnson et al.   ISME Journal

Public good dynamics drive evolution of iron acquisition strategies in natural bacterioplankton populations

(2012) O. X. Cordero et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Vitamins in the sea

(2012) S. J. Giovannoni   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2012) J. J. Morris et al.   mBio

The Origins of Cooperative Bacterial Communities

(2012) J. L. Sachs et al.   mBio

Species Interactions Alter Evolutionary Responses to a Novel Environment

(2012) Diane Lawrence et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

A Quantitative Test of Population Genetics Using Spatiogenetic Patterns in Bacterial Colonies

(2011) Kirill S. Korolev et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Dependence of the Cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus on Hydrogen Peroxide Scavenging Microbes for Growth at the Ocean's Surface

(2011) J. Jeffrey Morris et al.   PLoS One

Social evolution in multispecies biofilms

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

Structure and Evolution of Streptomyces Interaction Networks in Soil and In Silico

(2011) Kalin Vetsigian et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Siderophores from Neighboring Organisms Promote the Growth of Uncultured Bacteria

(2010) Anthony D'Onofrio et al.   CHEMISTRY & BIOLOGY

Emergent cooperation in microbial metabolism

(2010) Edwin H Wintermute et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

Loss of lipid synthesis as an evolutionary consequence of a parasitic lifestyle

(2010) B. Visser et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

The consequences of genetic drift for bacterial genome complexity

(2009) C.-H. Kuo et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Snowdrift game dynamics and facultative cheating in yeast

(2009) Jeff Gore et al.   NATURE

Population Dynamics Constrain the Cooperative Evolution of Cross-Feeding

(2009) James J. Bull et al.   PLoS One

Unique glycine-activated riboswitch linked to glycine-serine auxotrophy in SAR11

(2008) H. James Tripp et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

SAR11 marine bacteria require exogenous reduced sulphur for growth

(2008) H. James Tripp et al.   NATURE

Defined spatial structure stabilizes a synthetic multispecies bacterial community

(2008) H. J. Kim et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA