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A Gene Necessary for Reproductive Suppression in Termites

scientific article (publication date: 7 May 2009)

A defense of sociobiology.

scientific article published on January 2009

A general model for the evolution of mutualisms.

scientific article

A molecular mechanism that stabilizes cooperative secretions in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

scientific article

A new eusocial vertebrate?

scientific article published on 01 July 2005

A quantitative test of population genetics using spatiogenetic patterns in bacterial colonies.

scientific article

Adhesion as a weapon in microbial competition

scientific article published on 7 October 2014

Antibiotics and the art of bacterial war.

scientific article

Are mistakes inevitable? Sex allocation specialization by workers can reduce the genetic information needed to assess queen mating frequency

scientific article published on 12 September 2006

Assortment and the analysis of natural selection on social traits.

scientific article

Bacteria Use Collective Behavior to Generate Diverse Combat Strategies

scientific article published on 16 January 2018

Bacteriophages benefit from generalized transduction ⬇️

scientific article published on 05 July 2019

Balancing synthesis with pluralism in sociobiology

scientific article published on 01 September 2006

Biofilm Formation As a Response to Ecological Competition

scientific article published on 9 July 2015

Biomedicine. Hamiltonian medicine: why the social lives of pathogens matter

scientific article published on 01 May 2005

Can cuticular lipids provide sufficient information for within-colony nepotism in wasps?

scientific article published in April 2004

Cell morphology drives spatial patterning in microbial communities

scientific article published on 30 December 2016

Colony kin structure and male production in Dolichovespula wasps

scientific article published in April 2001

Competing species leave many potential niches unfilled.

scientific article

Competition sensing: the social side of bacterial stress responses

scientific article published on 4 March 2013

Competition, Not Cooperation, Dominates Interactions among Culturable Microbial Species

article

Conflict resolution in insect societies.

scientific article

Convergent evolution of worker policing by egg eating in the honeybee and common wasp

scientific article published in January 2001

Cooperation and conflict in microbial biofilms.

scholarly article

Cooperation, competition and antibiotic resistance in bacterial colonies

article

Cooperation: the secret society of sperm

scientific article published on 01 April 2010

Correction: Biofilm Formation As a Response to Ecological Competition

scientific article

Costs and benefits of provocation in bacterial warfare.

scientific article published on 2 July 2018

Cultural transmission can inhibit the evolution of altruistic helping

scientific article published in July 2008

Diminishing returns in social evolution: the not-so-tragic commons

scientific article published in September 2004

Do hornets have zombie workers?

scientific article published in June 2000

Droplet printing reveals the importance of micron-scale structure for bacterial ecology

scientific article published on 08 February 2021

Ecological competition favours cooperation in termite societies

scientific article published in June 2010

Ecological rules for the assembly of microbiome communities

scientific article published in 2021

Ecology and multilevel selection explain aggression in spider colonies

scientific article published on 6 June 2016

Emergence of spatial structure in cell groups and the evolution of cooperation

scientific article

Enforcement is central to the evolution of cooperation

scientific article published on 28 June 2019

Evolution of resistance to a last-resort antibiotic in Staphylococcus aureus via bacterial competition

scientific article

Evolutionary limits to cooperation in microbial communities

scientific article

Experimental evolution in biofilm populations

scientific article published on 01 November 2016

Experimental evolution in biofilm populations.

scientific article

Exploiting new terrain: an advantage to sociality in the slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum

scientific article published in 2007

FLO1 is a variable green beard gene that drives biofilm-like cooperation in budding yeast

scientific article

Facultative worker policing in a wasp

scientific article published in Nature

First principles of Hamiltonian medicine.

scientific article published on 31 March 2014

High relatedness maintains multicellular cooperation in a social amoeba by controlling cheater mutants

scientific article

Host Selection of Microbiota via Differential Adhesion.

scientific article

Importance of positioning for microbial evolution.

scientific article published on 08 April 2014

Improved use of a public good selects for the evolution of undifferentiated multicellularity

scientific article (publication date: 2 April 2013)

Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

scientific article published on March 2011

Inhibiting bacterial cooperation is an evolutionarily robust anti-biofilm strategy

scientific article published on 09 January 2020

Kevin Foster ⬇️

scientific article published on January 25, 2011

Loss of social behaviours in populations of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infecting lungs of patients with cystic fibrosis

scientific article published on 14 January 2014

Meeting report on the ASM Conference on Mechanisms of Interbacterial Cooperation and Competition

scientific article published on 14 August 2017

Microbial competition in porous environments can select against rapid biofilm growth

scientific article published on 22 December 2016

Microbiome diversity protects against pathogens by nutrient blocking

scientific article published on 14 December 2023

Microfluidics with fluid walls

scientific article

Migration and horizontal gene transfer divide microbial genomes into multiple niches.

scientific article

Mucin biopolymers prevent bacterial aggregation by retaining cells in the free-swimming state.

scientific article published on 8 November 2012

Mutually helping microbes can evolve by hitchhiking ⬇️

scientific article published on November 7, 2012

Pleiotropy and the low cost of individual traits promote cooperation

scientific article published on 29 January 2016

Pleiotropy as a mechanism to stabilize cooperation

scientific article published in October 2004

Rapid evolution of decreased host susceptibility drives a stable relationship between ultrasmall parasite TM7x and its bacterial host

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Rapid radiation in bacteria leads to a division of labour

scientific article

Reply to Baveye and Darnault: Useful models are simple and extendable.

scientific article published on 24 March 2017

Reply to: Broad definitions of enforcement are unhelpful for understanding evolutionary mechanisms of cooperation

scientific article published on 10 February 2020

Resource limitation drives spatial organization in microbial groups

scientific article

Single-cell twitching chemotaxis in developing biofilms

scientific article

Social and individual learning of helping in humans and other species

scientific article published on 23 October 2008

Social evolution in multispecies biofilms ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 28 June 2011)

Social evolution of spatial patterns in bacterial biofilms: when conflict drives disorder

scientific article published in July 2009

Spatial structure, cooperation and competition in biofilms

scientific article

Sperm sociality: cooperation, altruism, and spite

scientific article

Sucrose utilization in budding yeast as a model for the origin of undifferentiated multicellularity

scientific article

The Evolution of Quorum Sensing as a Mechanism to Infer Kinship

scientific article

The Phoenix effect

scientific article published in Nature

The costs and benefits of being a chimera.

scientific article

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

scientific article

The evolution of cooperation within the gut microbiota.

scientific article

The evolution of quorum sensing in bacterial biofilms

scientific article

The evolution of siderophore production as a competitive trait.

scientific article

The evolution of the host microbiome as an ecosystem on a leash

scientific article

The evolution of the type VI secretion system as a disintegration weapon

scientific article published on 26 May 2020

The evolution of tit-for-tat in bacteria via the type VI secretion system

scientific article published on 26 October 2020

The genotypic view of social interactions in microbial communities.

scientific article

The pUltra plasmid series: A robust and flexible tool for fluorescent labeling of Enterobacteria.

scientific article published on 29 September 2016

The sociobiology of biofilms.

scientific article

The sociobiology of molecular systems.

scientific article published on 08 February 2011

Why does the microbiome affect behaviour?

scientific article published on 24 April 2018

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