Programmed cell death as a black queen in microbial communities

When Disaster Strikes: reconstitution of population density by expansion of survivors

(2020) Milorad Kojic et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Temporal and metabolic overlap between lipid accumulation and programmed cell death due to nitrogen starvation in the unicellular chlorophyte Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

(2019) Santosh Sathe et al.   PHYCOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Evolution and structural diversity of metacaspases

(2019) Marina Klemenčič et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Suicidal selection: Programmed cell death can evolve in unicellular organisms due solely to kin selection

(2019) Anya E. Vostinar et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Labour sharing promotes coexistence in atrazine degrading bacterial communities

(2019) Loren Billet et al.   Scientific Reports

A 3D Individual-Based Model to Study Effects of Chemotaxis, Competition and Diffusion on the Motile-Phytoplankton Aggregation

(2018) Ilhem Bouderbala et al.   ACTA BIOTHEORETICA

CpMCA , a novel metacaspase gene from the harmful dinoflagellate Cochlodinium polykrikoides and its expression during cell death

(2018) Hui Wang et al.   GENE

Programmed cell death can increase the efficacy of microbial bet hedging

(2018) Eric Libby et al.   Scientific Reports

Ancestral State Reconstruction of the Apoptosis Machinery in the Common Ancestor of Eukaryotes

(2018) Joanna Klim et al.   G3-Genes Genomes Genetics

The Cost of Metabolic Interactions in Symbioses between Insects and Bacteria with Reduced Genomes

(2018) Nana Y. D. Ankrah et al.   mBio

Metacaspase involvement in programmed cell death of the marine cyanobacterium Trichodesmium

(2018) Dina Spungin et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Black Queen Evolution and Trophic Interactions Determine Plasmid Survival after the Disruption of the Conjugation Network

(2018) Johannes Cairns et al.   mSystems

Metacaspases and programmed cell death in Skeletonema marinoi in response to silicate limitation

(2017) Hualong Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

Programmed Cell Death and Complexity in Microbial Systems

(2016) Pierre M. Durand et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Programmed Cell Death in Unicellular Phytoplankton

(2016) Kay D. Bidle   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Queen pheromone regulates programmed cell death in the honey bee worker ovary

(2016) I. Ronai et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Beyond the Black Queen Hypothesis

(2016) Alix Mas et al.   ISME Journal

Exopolymer production as a function of cell permeability and death in a diatom (Thalassiosira weissflogii ) and a cyanobacterium (Synechococcus elongatus )

(2016) Daniel C. O. Thornton et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Evolution by gene loss

(2016) Ricard Albalat et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

The Molecular Ecophysiology of Programmed Cell Death in Marine Phytoplankton

(2015) Kay D. Bidle   Annual Review of Marine Science

The dual role of a yeast metacaspase: What doesn't kill you makes you stronger

(2015) Sandra Malmgren Hill et al.   BIOESSAYS

The extended evolutionary synthesis: its structure, assumptions and predictions

(2015) Kevin N. Laland et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

(2015) J. Jeffrey Morris   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Apoptosis-like cell death in unicellular photosynthetic organisms — A review

(2015) Krishna Chaitanya Kasuba et al.   Algal Research-Biomass Biofuels and Bioproducts

Programmed death in a unicellular organism has species-specific fitness effects

(2014) P. M. Durand et al.   Biology Letters

Virus-host arms race at the joint origin of multicellularity and programmed cell death

(2014) Jaime Iranzo et al.   CELL CYCLE

COEXISTENCE OF EVOLVING BACTERIA STABILIZED BY A SHARED BLACK QUEEN FUNCTION

(2014) J. Jeffrey Morris et al.   EVOLUTION

From archaeon to eukaryote: the evolutionary dark ages of the eukaryotic cell

(2013) Joran Martijn et al.   BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS

mazEF-mediated programmed cell death in bacteria: “What is this?”

(2013) Bhaskar Chandra Mohan Ramisetty et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial programmed cell death: making sense of a paradox

(2013) Kenneth W. Bayles   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

A Role for Programmed Cell Death in the Microbial Loop

(2013) Mónica V. Orellana et al.   PLoS One

Altruism can evolve when relatedness is low: evidence from bacteria committing suicide upon phage infection

(2013) D. Refardt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Tinbergen's four questions: an appreciation and an update

(2013) Patrick Bateson et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

New types of metacaspases in phytoplankton reveal diverse origins of cell death proteases

(2013) C J Choi et al.   Cell Death & Disease

Mastoparan-induced programmed cell death in the unicellular alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

(2012) Zhenya P. Yordanova et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Cell death in parasitic protozoa: regulated or incidental?

(2012) William R. Proto et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Prokaryotic Caspase Homologs: Phylogenetic Patterns and Functional Characteristics Reveal Considerable Diversity

(2012) Johannes Asplund-Samuelsson et al.   PLoS One

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

(2012) J. J. Morris et al.   mBio

The non-death role of metacaspase proteases

(2012) Amit Shrestha et al.   Frontiers in Oncology

How an Organism Dies Affects the Fitness of Its Neighbors

(2011) Pierre M. Durand et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Metacaspases

(2011) L Tsiatsiani et al.   CELL DEATH AND DIFFERENTIATION

Evolution of apoptosis-like programmed cell death in unicellular protozoan parasites

(2011) Szymon Kaczanowski et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Acetic acid-induced programmed cell death and release of volatile organic compounds in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

(2011) Zhaojiang Zuo et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

The Meaning of Death: Evolution and Ecology of Apoptosis in Protozoan Parasites

(2011) Sarah E. Reece et al.   PLoS Pathogens

ON THE PARADIGM OF ALTRUISTIC SUICIDE IN THE UNICELLULAR WORLD

(2010) Aurora M. Nedelcu et al.   EVOLUTION

Programmed cell death in unicellular parasites: a prerequisite for sustained infection?

(2010) Ger van Zandbergen et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Different ways to die: cell death modes of the unicellular chlorophyte Dunaliella viridis exposed to various environmental stresses are mediated by the caspase-like activity DEVDase

(2009) C. Jimenez et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Comparative Genomics of Phylogenetically Diverse Unicellular Eukaryotes Provide New Insights into the Genetic Basis for the Evolution of the Programmed Cell Death Machinery

(2009) Aurora M. Nedelcu   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Viral Glycosphingolipids Induce Lytic Infection and Cell Death in Marine Phytoplankton

(2009) A. Vardi et al.   SCIENCE

Programmed cell death in protists

(2008) Marcel Deponte   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH