List of works - Debra A Brock

A bacterial symbiont is converted from an inedible producer of beneficial molecules into food by a single mutation in the gacA gene

scientific article

Burkholderia bacteria infectiously induce the proto-farming symbiosis of Dictyostelium amoebae and food bacteria

scientific article

Cheating does not explain selective differences at high and low relatedness in a social amoeba

scientific article

Collection and Cultivation of Dictyostelids from the Wild ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2013

Diversity of Free-Living Environmental Bacteria and Their Interactions With a Bactivorous Amoeba

scholarly article by Debra A Brock et al published 2018 in Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology

Endosymbiotic adaptations in three new bacterial species associated with Dictyostelium discoideum: Paraburkholderia agricolaris sp. nov., Paraburkholderia hayleyella sp. nov., and Paraburkholderia bonniea sp. nov

scientific article published on 22 May 2020

Exposure to dense bacteria lawns does not cause the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum to carry bacteria through the social stage

scholarly article published 5 January 2017

Genomic signatures of cooperation and conflict in the social amoeba.

scientific article

In the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum, density, not farming status, determines predatory success on unpalatable Escherichia coli.

scientific article

Loss and resiliency of social amoeba symbiosis under simulated warming

scientific article published on 20 October 2020

Low Base-Substitution Mutation Rate but High Rate of Slippage Mutations in the Sequence Repeat-Rich Genome of Dictyostelium discoideum

scientific article published on 30 July 2020

Primitive agriculture in a social amoeba

scientific article

Sentinel cells, symbiotic bacteria and toxin resistance in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum.

scientific article

Social amoeba farmers carry defensive symbionts to protect and privatize their crops

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Symbiont location, host fitness, and possible coadaptation in a symbiosis between social amoebae and bacteria

scientific article published on 31 December 2018

Synergistic activity of cosecreted natural products from amoebae-associated bacteria ⬇️

scientific article published on 28 March 2018

The specificity of Burkholderia symbionts in the social amoeba farming symbiosis: Prevalence, species, genetic and phenotypic diversity

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

List of works by Debra A Brock

A bacterial symbiont is converted from an inedible producer of beneficial molecules into food by a single mutation in the gacA gene

Burkholderia bacteria infectiously induce the proto-farming symbiosis of Dictyostelium amoebae and food bacteria

Cheating does not explain selective differences at high and low relatedness in a social amoeba

Collection and Cultivation of Dictyostelids from the Wild ⬇️

Diversity of Free-Living Environmental Bacteria and Their Interactions With a Bactivorous Amoeba

Endosymbiotic adaptations in three new bacterial species associated with Dictyostelium discoideum: Paraburkholderia agricolaris sp. nov., Paraburkholderia hayleyella sp. nov., and Paraburkholderia bonniea sp. nov

Exposure to dense bacteria lawns does not cause the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum to carry bacteria through the social stage

Exposure to dense bacteria lawns does not cause the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum to carry bacteria through the social stage

Genomic signatures of cooperation and conflict in the social amoeba.

In the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum, density, not farming status, determines predatory success on unpalatable Escherichia coli.

Loss and resiliency of social amoeba symbiosis under simulated warming

Low Base-Substitution Mutation Rate but High Rate of Slippage Mutations in the Sequence Repeat-Rich Genome of Dictyostelium discoideum

Primitive agriculture in a social amoeba

Sentinel cells, symbiotic bacteria and toxin resistance in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum.

Social amoeba farmers carry defensive symbionts to protect and privatize their crops

Symbiont location, host fitness, and possible coadaptation in a symbiosis between social amoebae and bacteria

Synergistic activity of cosecreted natural products from amoebae-associated bacteria ⬇️

The specificity of Burkholderia symbionts in the social amoeba farming symbiosis: Prevalence, species, genetic and phenotypic diversity

Which phenotypic traits of Dictyostelium discoideum farmers are conferred by their bacterial symbionts?