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- Ant protection against herbivores and nectar thieves in Passiflora coccinea flowers
- Bacterial unculturability and the formation of intercellular metabolic networks
- Computing autocatalytic sets to unravel inconsistencies in metabolic network reconstructions
- Design and Characterization of Auxotrophy-Based Amino Acid Biosensors
- Dispersal between interconnected patches can reduce the total population size
- Do leaf cutting ants cut undetected? Testing the effect of ant-induced plant defences on foraging decisions in Atta colombica
- Duftstoffe: Die Sprache der Pflanzen. Signalrezeption, Biosynthese und Ökologie
- Ecology and evolution of metabolic cross-feeding interactions in bacteria
- Evolutionary transition in symbiotic syndromes enabled diversification of phytophagous insects on an imbalanced diet
- Experimental evolution of bet hedging
- Experimental evolution of metabolic dependency in bacteria
- Fitness and stability of obligate cross-feeding interactions that emerge upon gene loss in bacteria
- Foraging Leaf-Cutting Ants Learn to Reject Vitis vinifera ssp vinifera Plants that Emit Herbivore-Induced Volatiles
- Geographical and ecological stability of the symbiotic mid-gut microbiota in European firebugs, Pyrrhocoris apterus (Hemiptera, Pyrrhocoridae)
- Harnessing ecological and evolutionary principles to guide the design of microbial production consortia
- Herbivore-induced plant volatiles induce an indirect defence in neighbouring plants
- Herbivore-induced, indirect plant defences
- Impaired competence in flagellar mutants of Bacillus subtilis is connected to the regulatory network governed by DegU
- Increased availability of extrafloral nectar reduces herbivory in Lima bean plants (Phaseolus lunatus, Fabaceae)
- Less is more: Selective advantages can explain the prevalent loss of biosynthetic genes in bacteria
- McComedy: A user-friendly tool for next-generation individual-based modeling of microbial consumer-resource systems
- Metabolic coupling in bacteria
- Metabolic cross-feeding via intercellular nanotubes among bacteria
- Metabolic dissimilarity determines the establishment of cross-feeding interactions in bacteria
- Metabolic dissimilarity determines the establishment of cross-feeding interactions in bacteria
- Metabolic network architecture and carbon source determine metabolite production costs
- Nanotube‐mediated cross‐feeding couples the metabolism of interacting bacterial cells
- Non-specific association between filamentous bacteria and fungus-growing ants
- Obligate cross-feeding expands the metabolic niche of bacteria
- Obligate mutualistic cooperation limits evolvability
- Obligate mutualistic cooperation limits evolvability
- Pervasive Selection for Cooperative Cross-Feeding in Bacterial Communities
- Plasticity and epistasis strongly affect bacterial fitness after losing multiple metabolic genes
- Predation increases prey fitness via transgenerational priming
- Priming of indirect defences
- Privatization of cooperative benefits stabilizes mutualistic cross-feeding interactions in spatially structured environments
- Quantitative Analysis of Lysobacter Predation
- Regulation of extrafloral nectar secretion by jasmonates in lima bean is light dependent
- Selective advantages favour high genomic AT-contents in intracellular elements
- Selective advantages favour high genomic AT-contents in intracellular elements
- Spatio-temporal permanence and plasticity of foraging trails in young and mature leaf-cutting ant colonies (Atta spp.)
- Symbiont acquisition and replacement as a source of ecological innovation
- Synergistic coevolution accelerates genome evolution
- Testing the optimal defence hypothesis for two indirect defences: extrafloral nectar and volatile organic compounds
- The Defensive Role of Volatile Emission and Extrafloral Nectar Secretion for Lima Bean in Nature
- The Role of Jasmonates in Floral Nectar Secretion
- The evolutionary emergence of stochastic phenotype switching in bacteria
- Towards elucidating the differential regulation of floral and extrafloral nectar secretion
- Volatile Emission in Bracken Fern Is Induced by Jasmonates but Not by Spodoptera littoralis or Strongylogaster multifasciata Herbivory