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List of works by William C Ratcliff

An oscillating tragedy of the commons in replicator dynamics with game-environment feedback

scientific article published on 8 November 2016

Cellular packing, mechanical stress and the evolution of multicellularity

scientific article published on 01 March 2018

Copper oxide nanoparticles promote the evolution of multicellularity in yeast

scientific article published on 07 February 2019

Courting disaster: How diversification rate affects fitness under risk.

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De novo evolution of macroscopic multicellularity

De novo origins of multicellularity in response to predation

scientific article published on 20 February 2019

Disentangling direct and indirect fitness effects of microbial dormancy.

scientific article published on 27 June 2013

Division of Labor, Bet Hedging, and the Evolution of Mixed Biofilm Investment Strategies

scientific article published on 8 August 2017

Division of labor, bet hedging, and the evolution of mixed biofilm investment strategies

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Drivers of Spatial Structure in Social Microbial Communities

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Ecological Advantages and Evolutionary Limitations of Aggregative Multicellular Development

scientific article published on 21 August 2020

Evolution of Cellular Differentiation: From Hypotheses to Models

scientific article published on 20 August 2020

Evolution of altruistic cooperation among nascent multicellular organisms

scientific article published on 15 April 2019

Evolution. Ratcheting the evolution of multicellularity

scientific article published on 01 October 2014

Experimental evolution of an alternating uni- and multicellular life cycle in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

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Experimental evolution of multicellularity.

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Genetics of a de novo origin of undifferentiated multicellularity

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Geometry shapes evolution of early multicellularity

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Geometry, packing, and evolutionary paths to increased multicellular size

scientific article published on 01 May 2018

Horizontal Gene Transfer of Functional Type VI Killing Genes by Natural Transformation.

scientific article published on 25 July 2017

Illuminating a new path to multicellularity

Killing by Type VI secretion drives clonal phase separation and the evolution of cooperation

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Killing by Type VI secretion drives genetic phase separation and correlates with increased cooperation

scientific article published on 6 February 2017

Nascent life cycles and the emergence of higher-level individuality.

scientific article published in December 2017

Origins of multicellular evolvability in snowflake yeast

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Oxygen suppression of macroscopic multicellularity

scientific article published on 14 May 2021

Predator Escape: An Ecologically Realistic Scenario for the Evolutionary Origins of Multicellularity

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Programmed cell death can increase the efficacy of microbial bet -hedging

scientific article published on 18 January 2018

Publisher Correction: Programmed cell death can increase the efficacy of microbial bet hedging.

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Shortsighted Evolution Constrains the Efficacy of Long-Term Bet Hedging

scientific article published on 24 January 2019

Stabilizing multicellularity through ratcheting

scientific article published on August 2016

Tempo and mode of multicellular adaptation in experimentally evolved Saccharomyces cerevisiae

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Topological constraints in early multicellularity favor reproductive division of labor

scientific article published on 17 September 2020

Trait heritability in major transitions

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When stress predicts a shrinking gene pool, trading early reproduction for longevity can increase fitness, even with lower fecundity

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