Category Archives: Journal Club: Every other Tuesday @9AM in McDonnell (Danforth campus) 412. Visitors welcome!

Articles that will be discussed at journal club on December 10, 2013. (1) Orona-Tamayo et al (2013) Exclusive rewards in mutualisms: ant proteases and plant protease inhibitors create a lock–key system to protect Acacia food bodies from exploitation. Mol Ecol … Continue reading →

Articles that will be discussed in Journal Club. (1) Gorischek et al (2013) Fungal symbionts as manipulators of plant reproductive biology. Am Nat 181: 562-570. (2) Goto et al (2010) Selective flower abortion maintains moth cooperation in a newly discovered pollination mutualism. … Continue reading →

Article chosen by Cassie Vernier: “Altruism can evolve when relatedness is low: evidence from bacteria committing suicide upon phage infection” Dominik Refardt, Tobias Bergmiller and Rolf Kümmerli

Jousset A, Rochat L, Scheu S, Bonkowski M, Keel C (2010) Predator-Prey Chemical Warfare Determines the Expression of Biocontrol Genes by Rhizosphere-Associated Pseudomonas fluorescens. Appl Environ Microbiol 76:5263–5268.

Journal article chosen by Jason Scott: Blount et al. (2012). Genomic analysis of a key innovation in an experimental Escherichia coli population. Nature. 489: 513-518. Also, check out the News and Views for this article: Hendrickson, H., & Rainey, P.B. (2012). How the unicorn … Continue reading →

David Queller picked the journal article for this week: Rand, D.G., Greene, J.D., & Nowak, M.A. (2012). Spontaneous giving and calculated greed. Nature, 489, 427-430.

Jason Scott chose the journal articles for this week. They are titled Ecological Populations of Bacteria Act as Socially Cohesive Units of Antibiotic Production and Resistance by Otto X. Cordero et al. & Microbial Cooperative Warfare by Helene Morlon.

We will not have journal club this week.

Jason Scott chose the journal article for this week. It is titled Speciation by Symbiosis by Robert Brucker and Seth R. Bordenstein.

jeff smith chose the journal article for this week. It is titled The Dynamics of Cooperative Bacterial Virulence in the Field written by Raymond B, West SA, Griffin AS, and Bonsall, MB.