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Open questions in microbial cooperation

While putting my Myxo work together into a talk, and trying to present it all with some semblance of coherence, I had the opportunity to think about where the evolution of microbial cooperation is as a...

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A generalization of Hamilton’s rule for the evolution of microbial cooperation

jeff smith, J. David Van Dyken, & Peter C. Zee (2010) “A generalization of Hamilton’s rule for the evolution of microbial cooperation” Science 328: 1700-1703. [Link] Abstract: Hamilton’s rule...

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More heat than light

Last summer, Nowak and colleagues published a perspective in Nature arguing against both the factual correctness and the scientific usefulness of kin selection theory.  It rubbed a lot of people the...

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Ways to study microbial evolution

Some choice nuggets I came across recently in a short perspective by Nadell and colleagues at Princeton: A recent paper in BMC Biology tests central elements of [social evolution] theory by...

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Practical implications of microbial evolution

When I originally got interested in microbes, it was mostly for somewhat obscure academic questions about mobile genetic elements: how does evolution solve conflicts to create cohesive individuals...

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Slime molds get their 15 minutes

Photo: Steven L. Stephenson Dictyostelium and its relatives are getting some time in the limelight from Carl Zimmer in the New York Times. The article even includes some coverage of our lab’s work on...

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Tragedy of the commons among antibiotic resistance plasmids

smith (2012) Tragedy of the commons among antibiotic resistance plasmids. Evolution. doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01531.x | Early view at Evolution Abstract: As social interactions are increasingly...

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What makes something “systems biology”?

Like many biologists, I’ve wondered at times what the relatively new discipline of systems biology is all about. A lot of things get called systems biology, from genomics to metabolism to gene...

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Nonadaptive process can create the appearance of facultative cheating in...

smith j, Van Dyken JD, Velicer GJ (2013) Nonadaptive process can create the appearance of facultative cheating in microbes. Evolution 68: 816-826. DOI: 10.1111/evo.12306 Abstract: Adaptations to social...

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Fruiting bodies of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum increase spore...

smith j, Queller DC, Strassmann JE (2014) Fruiting bodies of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum increase spore transport by Drosophila. BMC Evolutionary Biology 14: 105....

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