Defensive mutualisms: do microbial interactions within hosts drive the evolution of defensive traits?

Host and geographic structure of endophytic and endolichenic fungi at a continental scale

(2012) Jana M. U'Ren et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Metabolome and Transcriptome of the Interaction between Ustilago maydis and Fusarium verticillioidesIn Vitro

(2012) Wilfried Jonkers et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

There are many ways to be a mutualist: Endophytic fungus reduces plant survival but increases population growth

(2012) Jennifer A. Rudgers et al.   ECOLOGY

Interactions between Fusarium verticillioides, Ustilago maydis, and Zea mays: An endophyte, a pathogen, and their shared plant host

(2012) Alma E. Rodriguez Estrada et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

Solving the Wolbachia Paradox: Modeling the Tripartite Interaction between Host, Wolbachia, and a Natural Enemy

(2011) Andrew Fenton et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Symbiotic bacteria on the cuticle of the leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex subterraneus subterraneus protect workers from attack by entomopathogenic fungi

(2011) T. C. Mattoso et al.   Biology Letters

Aphids indirectly increase virulence and transmission potential of a monarch butterfly parasite by reducing defensive chemistry of a shared food plant

(2011) Jacobus C. de Roode et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

In vitro interactions between Fusarium verticillioides and Ustilago maydis through real-time PCR and metabolic profiling

(2011) Alma E. Rodriguez Estrada et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

Evolution of restraint in a structured rock-paper-scissors community

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

Red Queen: from populations to taxa and communities

(2011) Lee Hsiang Liow et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Let the Right One In: A Microeconomic Approach to Partner Choice in Mutualisms

(2010) Marco Archetti et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

A resource ratio theory of cooperation

(2010) Claire de Mazancourt et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Mutualisms in a changing world: an evolutionary perspective

(2010) E. Toby Kiers et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

COMPETITION, COOPERATION AMONG KIN, AND VIRULENCE IN MULTIPLE INFECTIONS

(2010) Manuela López-Villavicencio et al.   EVOLUTION

Exploring the evolutionary ecology of fungal endophytes in agricultural systems: using functional traits to reveal mechanisms in community processes

(2010) Megan Saunders et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Economic contract theory tests models of mutualism

(2010) E. G. Weyl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Parasite and host assemblages: embracing the reality will improve our knowledge of parasite transmission and virulence

(2010) T. Rigaud et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Specificity in the symbiotic association between fungus-growing ants and protective Pseudonocardia bacteria

(2010) M. J. Cafaro et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Adaptation via Symbiosis: Recent Spread of a Drosophila Defensive Symbiont

(2010) J. Jaenike et al.   SCIENCE

Eco‐Evolutionary Dynamics of Mutualists and Exploiters

(2009) Emily I. Jones et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology

(2009) Jeannine Cavender-Bares et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

EndophyticFusarium verticillioides reduces disease severity caused byUstilago maydison maize

(2009) Keunsub Lee et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Fungal-Fungal Associations Affect the Assembly of Endophyte Communities in Maize (Zea mays)

(2009) Jean J. Pan et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Evidence for alteration of fungal endophyte community assembly by host defense compounds

(2009) Megan Saunders et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Fungal endophytes: diversity and functional roles

(2009) R. J. Rodriguez et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Generalized antifungal activity and 454-screening of Pseudonocardia and Amycolatopsis bacteria in nests of fungus-growing ants

(2009) R. Sen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rethinking crop-disease management in fungus-growing ants

(2009) J. J. Boomsma et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Phylogenetic Estimation of Trophic Transition Networks for Ascomycetous Fungi: Are Lichens Cradles of Symbiotrophic Fungal Diversification?

(2009) A. Elizabeth Arnold et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

How can your parasites become your allies?

(2009) Simon Fellous et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Endophytes: An emerging tool for biological control

(2008) Paul A. Backman et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

Preferential allocation to beneficial symbiont with spatial structure maintains mycorrhizal mutualism

(2008) James D. Bever et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Kin selection and the evolution of virulence

(2008) A Buckling et al.   HEREDITY

Low migration decreases interference competition among parasites and increases virulence

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

Mutualism, market effects and partner control

(2008) R. A. JOHNSTONE et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Virulence evolution and the trade-off hypothesis: history, current state of affairs and the future

(2008) S. ALIZON et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Effects of host plant environment and Ustilago maydis infection on the fungal endophyte community of maize (Zea mays)

(2008) Jean J. Pan et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Reprogramming a maize plant: transcriptional and metabolic changes induced by the fungal biotroph Ustilago maydis

(2008) Gunther Doehlemann et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Ustilago maydis populations tracked maize through domestication and cultivation in the Americas

(2008) A. B Munkacsi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A simple and general explanation for the evolution of altruism

(2008) J. A Fletcher et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

THE EVOLUTION OF RESTRAINT IN BACTERIAL BIOFILMS UNDER NONTRANSITIVE COMPETITION

(2007) Federico Prado et al.   EVOLUTION

Transformation-Mediated Complementation of aFUMGene Cluster Deletion inFusarium verticillioidesRestores both Fumonisin Production and Pathogenicity on Maize Seedlings

(2007) Anthony E. Glenn et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS