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Bacterial Unculturability and the Formation of Intercellular Metabolic Networks

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Computing autocatalytic sets to unravel inconsistencies in metabolic network reconstructions

scientific article published on 5 October 2014

Design and characterization of auxotrophy-based amino acid biosensors

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Do leaf cutting ants cut undetected? Testing the effect of ant-induced plant defences on foraging decisions in Atta colombica

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Ecology and evolution of metabolic cross-feeding interactions in bacteria

scientific article published on 25 May 2018

Evolutionary transition in symbiotic syndromes enabled diversification of phytophagous insects on an imbalanced diet

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Experimental Evolution of Metabolic Dependency in Bacteria.

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Experimental evolution of bet hedging

scientific article published in November 2009

Fitness and stability of obligate cross-feeding interactions that emerge upon gene loss in bacteria

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Foraging leaf-cutting ants learn to reject Vitis vinifera ssp. vinifera plants that emit herbivore-induced volatiles

scientific article published on 15 June 2014

Geographical and ecological stability of the symbiotic mid-gut microbiota in European firebugs, Pyrrhocoris apterus (Hemiptera, Pyrrhocoridae).

scientific article published on 27 September 2012

Herbivore-induced, indirect plant defences

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Increased availability of extrafloral nectar reduces herbivory in Lima bean plants (Phaseolus lunatus, Fabaceae)

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Less is more: selective advantages can explain the prevalent loss of biosynthetic genes in bacteria

scientific article published on 9 July 2014

McComedy: A user-friendly tool for next-generation individual-based modeling of microbial consumer-resource systems

scientific article published on 24 January 2022

Metabolic cross-feeding via intercellular nanotubes among bacteria

scientific article published on 23 February 2015

Metabolic network architecture and carbon source determine metabolite production costs.

scientific article published on 30 March 2016

Nanotube-mediated cross-feeding couples the metabolism of interacting bacterial cells

scientific article published on 04 March 2019

Non-specific association between filamentous bacteria and fungus-growing ants

scientific article published in June 2007

Obligate mutualistic cooperation limits evolvability

scientific article published on 17 January 2022

Pervasive Selection for Cooperative Cross-Feeding in Bacterial Communities.

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Plasticity and epistasis strongly affect bacterial fitness after losing multiple metabolic genes

scientific article published on 27 April 2015

Priming of indirect defences.

scientific article published in July 2006

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

scientific article published on December 2015

Quantitative Analysis of Lysobacter Predation.

scientific article published on 31 July 2015

Regulation of extrafloral nectar secretion by jasmonates in lima bean is light dependent

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Selective advantages favour high genomic AT-contents in intracellular elements.

scientific article published on 29 April 2019

Testing the optimal defence hypothesis for two indirect defences: extrafloral nectar and volatile organic compounds

scientific article published on 21 May 2008

The defensive role of volatile emission and extrafloral nectar secretion for lima bean in nature.

scientific article published on 12 December 2007

The role of jasmonates in floral nectar secretion

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Towards elucidating the differential regulation of floral and extrafloral nectar secretion

scientific article published on July 2010

Volatile emission in bracken fern is induced by jasmonates but not by Spodoptera littoralis or Strongylogaster multifasciata herbivory

scientific article (publication date: 2012)