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2016 Publications

Dillon, MM, NP Rouillard, B Van Dam, R Gallet, Cooper, VS. Diverse phenotypic and genetic responses to short-term selection in evolving Escherichia coli populations. Evolution, 2016 Mar;70(3):586-99. doi: 10.1111/evo.12868

Flynn KM, G Dowell, TM Johnson, BJ Koestler, CM Waters, VS Cooper. The evolution of ecological diversity in biofilms of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by altered cyclic diguanylate signaling. J Bacteriol. 2016. PubMed PMID: 27021563.

Martin M, Holscher T, Dragos A, Cooper VS, AT Kovacs. Laboratory evolution of microbial interactions in bacterial biofilms. J Bacteriol. 2016. PubMed PMID: 27044625.

Wang Y, Diaz Arenas C, Stoebel DM, Flynn K, Knapp E, Dillon MM, Wunsche A, Hatcher PJ, Moore FB, Cooper VS, Cooper TF. Benefit of transferred mutations is better predicted by the fitness of recipients than by their ecological or genetic relatedness. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016. PubMed PMID: 27091964.

Sung W, Ackerman MS, Dillon MM, Platt TG, Fuqua C, Cooper VS, Lynch M. Evolution of the

insertion-deletion mutation rate across the tree of life. G3 (Bethesda, Md). 2016. PubMed

PMID: 27317782.

Dillon MM, Cooper VS. The fitness effects of spontaneous mutations nearly unseen by selection in a bacterium with multiple chromosomes. Genetics. 2016. Sep 26. pii: genetics.116.193060. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 27672096.

Dillon MM, Sung W, Sebra R, Lynch M, Cooper VS. Genome-wide biases in the rate and molecular spectrum of spontaneous mutations in Vibrio cholerae and Vibrio fischeri. Mol Biol Evol. 2016. PubMed PMID: 27744412

Kershner JP, Yu McLoughlin S, Kim J, Morgenthaler A, Ebmeier CC, Old WM, Copley SD. A synonymous mutation upstream of the gene encoding a weak-link enzyme causes an ultrasensitive response in growth rate. J. Bacteriol.  198, 2853-2863, 2016.

Herron, MD. Origins of multicellular complexity: Volvox and the volvocine algae (Meeting Review of the Third International Volvox Meeting). Molecular Ecology. 2016. 25:1213–1223.

Herron, MD. Cells, colonies, and clones: individuality in the volvocine algae. Book chapter in press. S. Lidgard & L. Nyhart (eds.) Biological Individuality: Integrating Scientific, Philosophical, and Historical Perspectives. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 9780226446455. (In press)

Herron, MD. Fitness and individuality in complex life cycles. Philosophy of Science. (In press)

Gudelj I, Kinnersley M, Rashkov P, Schmidt K, Rosenzweig F. Stability of cross-feeding polymorphisms in microbial communities. PLoS Comp Bio. (In press)

McCutcheon JP. From microbiology to cell biology: when an intracellular bacterium becomes part of its host cell. Current Opinion in Cell Biology. 2016. 41:132-136.

Spribille T, Tuovinen V, Resl P, Vanderpool D, Wolinski H, Aime MC, Schneider K, Stabentheiner E, Toome-Heller M, Thor G, Mayrhofer H, Johannesson H, McCutcheon JP. Basidiomycete yeasts in the cortex of ascomycete macrolichens. Science. 2016. 353:488-492.


Husník F, McCutcheon JP. 2016. Repeated replacement of an intrabacterial symbiont in the tripartite nested mealybug symbiosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 113: E5416–E5424.

Pedersen D, Miller SR. Photosynthetic temperature adaptation during niche diversification of the thermophilic cyanobacterium Synechococcus A/B clade. ISME J. 2016. (In press)

Youn, H, Sutton L, Smith DE, Moore C, Wilkins JF, Maddieson I, Croft W, Bhattacharya T. On the universal structure of human lexical semantics. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA. 2016. 113(7): 1766—1771.

Mo CY, Manning SA, Roggiani M, Culyba MJ, Samuels AN, Sniegowski PD, Goulian M, Kohli, RM. Systematically bacterial SOS activity under stress reveals therapeutic strategies for potentiating antibiotics. mSphere 1. 2016. pp. e00163-16-15.