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

This week Joan Strassmann chose the journal article. She chose Sexual selection is a form of social selection. It is a review written by Bruce E. Lyon, and Robert Montgomerie.

This week Devin Dobias chose the journal article. He chose Population Genomics of Early Events in the Ecological Differentiation of Bacteria written by B. Jesse Shapiro, Jonathan Friedman, Otto X. Cordero, Sarah P. Preheim, Sonia C. Timberlake, Gitta Szabó, Martin … Continue reading →

This week Neil Buttery chose the article for journal club. It is titled Dynamic Wolbachia prevalence in Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants potential for a nutritional symbiosis. It is written by S.B. Andersen, M. Boye, D. R. Nash and J. J. Boomsma.

This week we will read a paper titled C. elegans Touch Response Facilitates Escape from Predacious Fungi. It was written by Sean M. Maguire, Christopher M. Clarck, John Nunnari, Jennifer K. Pirri, and Mark J. Alkema.

jeff smith chose this week’s article titled, Horizontal Gene Transfer of the Secretome Drives the Evolution of Bacterial Cooperation and Virulence. The article is published in Current Biology and the authors are Teresa Nogueira, Daniel J. Rankin, Marie Touchon, Francois … Continue reading →

This week’s journal article, chosen by Joan Strassmann, is titled Brood parasite eggs enhance egg survivorship in a multiply parasitized host.

This week jeff smith chose the paper Density-dependent fitness benefits in quorum-sensing bacterial populations written by Sophie E. Darch, Stuart A. West, Klaus Winzer and Stephen P. Diggle.

This week we will be reading a paper suggested by jeff smith titled Population Structure of Vibrio fischeri within the Light Organs of Euprymna scolopes Squid from Two Oahu (Hawaii) Populations written by M.S. Wollenberg and E.G. Ruby.

This week we will read a paper suggested by David Queller titled Spatial Structure and Interspecific Cooperation: Theory and an Empirical Test Using the Mycorrhizal Mutualism written by Erik Verbruggen, Claire El Mouden, Jan Jansa, Geert Akkermans, Heike Bücking, Stuart … Continue reading →

This week we will read these two papers suggested by Debbie Brock. The first paper is titled Symbiotic bateria on the cuticle of the leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex subterraneus subterraneus protect workers from attack by entomopathogenic fungi written by Thalles C. … Continue reading →