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List of works by Rolf Kümmerli

'Evolution-proofing' antibacterials

scientific article published on 13 August 2014

A Test of Evolutionary Policing Theory with Data from Human Societies

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

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

scientific article published on 20 March 2013

Antagonistic interactions subdue inter-species green-beard cooperation in bacteria

scientific article published on 05 July 2020

Bacterial siderophores in community and host interactions

scientific article published on 20 November 2019

Between-Year Variation in Population Sex Ratio Increases with Complexity of the Breeding System in Hymenoptera

scientific article published on June 1, 2011

Beyond killing: Can we find new ways to manage infection?

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Cheat invasion causes bacterial trait loss in lung infections

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Cheating fosters species co-existence in well-mixed bacterial communities

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Co-evolutionary dynamics between public good producers and cheats in the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

scientific article published on 8 September 2015

Collective decision-making in microbes

scientific article published on 03 March 2014

Combining antibiotics with antivirulence compounds can have synergistic effects and reverse selection for antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

scientific article published on 18 August 2020

Competition for iron drives phytopathogen control by natural rhizosphere microbiomes

scientific article published on 11 May 2020

Contrasting population genetic structure for workers and queens in the putatively unicolonial ant Formica exsecta

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Cost of cooperation rules selection for cheats in bacterial metapopulations

scientific article published on 13 December 2011

Defying bacteriophages: Contrasting altruistic with individual-based resistance mechanisms in Escherichia coli.

scientific article published on 04 June 2013

Division of Labor during Biofilm Matrix Production

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Division of labor during biofilm matrix production

Do Bacterial "Virulence Factors" Always Increase Virulence? A Meta-Analysis of Pyoverdine Production in Pseudomonas aeruginosa As a Test Case

scientific article published on 12 December 2016

Enforced specialization fosters mutual cheating and not division of labour in the bacterium <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i>

scientific article published in 2022

Environmental determinants of pyoverdine production, exploitation and competition in natural Pseudomonas communities

scientific article published on 16 August 2018

Evolutionary dynamics of interlinked public goods traits: an experimental study of siderophore production in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

scientific article published on 6 January 2015

Experimental manipulation of queen number affects colony sex ratio investment in the highly polygynous ant Formica exsecta

scientific article published in September 2005

Explaining the sociobiology of pyoverdin producing Pseudomonas: a comment on Zhang and Rainey (2013)

scientific article published on 02 December 2013

Extreme reproductive specialization within ant colonies: some queens produce males whereas others produce workers

Gallium-mediated siderophore quenching as an evolutionarily robust antibacterial treatment

scientific article published on 30 January 2014

Genetic architecture constrains exploitation of siderophore cooperation in the bacterium Burkholderia cenocepacia

scientific article published on 02 October 2019

Habitat structure and the evolution of diffusible siderophores in bacteria.

scientific article published on 23 September 2014

Harnessing bacterial interactions to manage infections: a review on the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa as a case example

scientific article published on 21 January 2020

Human cooperation in social dilemmas: comparing the Snowdrift game with the Prisoner's Dilemma

scientific article published in December 2007

In-vivo microscopy reveals the impact of Pseudomonas aeruginosa social interactions on host colonization

scientific article published on 23 May 2019

Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

scientific article published on March 2011

Individual- versus group-optimality in the production of secreted bacterial compounds

scientific article published on 28 February 2019

Interaction effects of cell diffusion, cell density and public goods properties on the evolution of cooperation in digital microbes.

scientific article published on 24 June 2014

Iron acquisition strategies in pseudomonads: mechanisms, ecology, and evolution

scientific article published in 2022

Limited dispersal, budding dispersal, and cooperation: an experimental study.

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Local adaptation, geographical distance and phylogenetic relatedness: Assessing the drivers of siderophore‐mediated social interactions in natural bacterial communities

scientific article published in 2021

Loss of a pyoverdine secondary receptor in Pseudomonas aeruginosa results in a fitter strain suitable for population invasion

scientific article published on 15 December 2020

Low spatial structure and selection against secreted virulence factors attenuates pathogenicity in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

scientific article published on 31 July 2018

Manipulating virulence factor availability can have complex consequences for infections

scientific article published on 24 October 2016

Microbial Mutualism: Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Feed Me?

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

Molecular and regulatory properties of a public good shape the evolution of cooperation

scientific article published on October 13, 2010

Patterns of infant handling and relatedness in Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) on Gibraltar

scientific article published on 10 September 2008

Patterns of split sex ratio in ants have multiple evolutionary causes based on different within-colony conflicts

scientific article published on 20 May 2009

Phenotypic plasticity of a cooperative behaviour in bacteria

scientific article published on 18 December 2008

Positive linkage between bacterial social traits reveals that homogeneous rather than specialised behavioral repertoires prevail in natural Pseudomonas communities

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Presence of a loner strain maintains cooperation and diversity in well-mixed bacterial communities

scientific article published in January 2016

Probing the evolutionary robustness of two repurposed drugs targeting iron uptake in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

scientific article published on 10 September 2018

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

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Repression of competition favours cooperation: experimental evidence from bacteria.

scientific article published in April 2010

Reproductive parameters vary with social and ecological factors in the polygynous ant Formica exsecta

scientific article published in 2008

Reproductive specialization in multiple-queen colonies of the ant Formica exsecta

article by Rolf Kümmerli et al published 13 December 2006 in Behavioral Ecology

Resistance to extreme strategies, rather than prosocial preferences, can explain human cooperation in public goods games

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Sham nepotism as a result of intrinsic differences in brood viability in ants

scientific article published in August 2006

Siderophore cheating and cheating resistance shape competition for iron in soil and freshwater Pseudomonas communities.

scientific article published on 4 September 2017

Siderophores drive invasion dynamics in bacterial communities through their dual role as public good versus public bad

scientific article published on 09 November 2021

Social evolution: this microbe will self-destruct

scientific article published in November 2008

Strain background, species frequency and environmental conditions are important in determining population dynamics and species co-existence between Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 10 July 2020

Switching between apparently redundant iron-uptake mechanisms benefits bacteria in changeable environments

scientific article published on 12 June 2013

The bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa senses and gradually responds to interspecific competition for iron

scientific article published on 17 April 2018

The path to re-evolve cooperation is constrained in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

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The physical boundaries of public goods cooperation between surface-attached bacterial cells.

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Transposable temperate phages promote the evolution of divergent social strategies in Pseudomonas aeruginosa populations

scientific article published on 09 October 2019

Understanding policing as a mechanism of cheater control in cooperating bacteria

scientific article published on 25 February 2019

Viscous medium promotes cooperation in the pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

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