Cellular cooperation: insights from microbes

H Celiker, J Gore - Trends in cell biology, 2013 - cell.com
Cooperation between cells is a widespread phenomenon in nature, found across diverse
systems ranging from microbial populations to multicellular organisms. For cooperation to …

Resurrecting complexity: the interplay of plasticity and rapid evolution in the multiple trait response to strong changes in predation pressure in the water flea Daphnia …

R Stoks, L Govaert, K Pauwels, B Jansen… - Ecology …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
A resurrection ecology reconstruction of 14 morphological, life history and behavioural traits
revealed that a natural Daphnia magna population rapidly tracked changes in fish predation …

Drug dependence in cancer is exploitable by optimally constructed treatment holidays

J Maltas, ST Killarney, KR Singleton… - Nature ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Cancers with acquired resistance to targeted therapy can become simultaneously
dependent on the presence of the targeted therapy drug for survival, suggesting that …

Reinforcement learning informs optimal treatment strategies to limit antibiotic resistance

DT Weaver, ES King, J Maltas… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Antimicrobial resistance was estimated to be associated with 4.95 million deaths worldwide
in 2019. It is possible to frame the antimicrobial resistance problem as a feedback-control …

Evolving generalists in switching rugged landscapes

S Wang, L Dai - PLoS computational biology, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Evolving systems, be it an antibody repertoire in the face of mutating pathogens or a
microbial population exposed to varied antibiotics, constantly search for adaptive solutions …

Environmental dependence of genetic constraint

MGJ de Vos, FJ Poelwijk, N Battich, JDT Ndika… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The epistatic interactions that underlie evolutionary constraint have mainly been studied for
constant external conditions. However, environmental changes may modulate epistasis and …

Optimality in evolution: new insights from synthetic biology

MGJ de Vos, FJ Poelwijk, SJ Tans - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2013 - Elsevier
Highlights•Synthetic biology provides new tools for studying optimality in evolution.•
Optimization studies reveal evolutionary constraints.•Tradeoffs are central to understanding …

Evolution in alternating environments with tunable interlandscape correlations

J Maltas, DM McNally, KB Wood - Evolution, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Natural populations are often exposed to temporally varying environments. Evolutionary
dynamics in varying environments have been extensively studied, although understanding …

[HTML][HTML] Comprehensive analysis of mutations in the hepatitis delta virus genome based on full-length sequencing in a nationwide cohort study and evolutionary …

E Shirvani-Dastgerdi, S Amini-Bavil-Olyaee… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2015 - Elsevier
Delta hepatitis, caused by co-infection or super-infection of hepatitis D virus (HDV) in
hepatitis B virus (HBV)-infected patients, is the most severe form of chronic hepatitis, often …

The strength of genetic interactions scales weakly with mutational effects

A Velenich, J Gore - Genome biology, 2013 - Springer
Background Genetic interactions pervade every aspect of biology, from evolutionary theory,
where they determine the accessibility of evolutionary paths, to medicine, where they can …