Bacterial cooperation in the wild and in the clinic: are pathogen social behaviours relevant outside the laboratory?

PubWeight™: 0.76‹?›

🔗 View Article (PMC 4267416)

Published in Bioessays on December 27, 2012

Authors

Freya Harrison1

Author Affiliations

1: School of Molecular Medical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom. freya.andersdottir@gmail.com

Articles cited by this

The genetical evolution of social behaviour. I. J Theor Biol (1964) 46.36

Bacterial biofilms: a common cause of persistent infections. Science (1999) 40.82

The Calgary Biofilm Device: new technology for rapid determination of antibiotic susceptibilities of bacterial biofilms. J Clin Microbiol (1999) 7.19

Social evolution theory for microorganisms. Nat Rev Microbiol (2006) 6.41

Cooperation and competition in pathogenic bacteria. Nature (2004) 6.14

Social semantics: altruism, cooperation, mutualism, strong reciprocity and group selection. J Evol Biol (2007) 6.05

Cooperation and conflict in quorum-sensing bacterial populations. Nature (2007) 5.33

Evolution of cooperation and conflict in experimental bacterial populations. Nature (2003) 4.52

Pyoverdin is essential for virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Infect Immun (1996) 3.51

Social cheating in Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2007) 3.42

Iron and Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm formation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2005) 3.26

Nutritional cues control Pseudomonas aeruginosa multicellular behavior in cystic fibrosis sputum. J Bacteriol (2007) 3.22

Kin discrimination and the benefit of helping in cooperatively breeding vertebrates. Science (2003) 3.21

Cystic fibrosis sputum supports growth and cues key aspects of Pseudomonas aeruginosa physiology. J Bacteriol (2005) 2.59

Altruism through beard chromodynamics. Nature (2006) 2.46

Horizontal gene transfer of the secretome drives the evolution of bacterial cooperation and virulence. Curr Biol (2009) 2.35

Local interactions select for lower pathogen infectivity. Science (2007) 2.35

Frequency dependence and cooperation: theory and a test with bacteria. Am Nat (2007) 2.25

Cooperation and virulence of clinical Pseudomonas aeruginosa populations. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 2.07

Cooperation and virulence in acute Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections. BMC Biol (2006) 1.97

Limited dispersal, budding dispersal, and cooperation: an experimental study. Evolution (2008) 1.87

Altruism, spite, and greenbeards. Science (2010) 1.81

The single-nucleotide resolution transcriptome of Pseudomonas aeruginosa grown in body temperature. PLoS Pathog (2012) 1.72

The concurrent evolution of cooperation and the population structures that support it. Evolution (2011) 1.66

The fate of microbial mutators. Microbiology (2002) 1.64

Viscous medium promotes cooperation in the pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Proc Biol Sci (2009) 1.59

Siderophore-mediated cooperation and virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. FEMS Microbiol Ecol (2007) 1.55

Social evolution in micro-organisms and a Trojan horse approach to medical intervention strategies. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2009) 1.53

The social evolution of bacterial pathogenesis. Proc Biol Sci (2001) 1.51

What traits are carried on mobile genetic elements, and why? Heredity (Edinb) (2010) 1.49

The dynamics of cooperative bacterial virulence in the field. Science (2012) 1.37

Population demography and the evolution of helping behaviors. Evolution (2006) 1.31

Hypermutability impedes cooperation in pathogenic bacteria. Curr Biol (2005) 1.26

Biomedicine. Hamiltonian medicine: why the social lives of pathogens matter. Science (2005) 1.17

Pathogenesis, virulence, and infective dose. PLoS Pathog (2007) 1.16

Dispersal of sibling coalitions promotes helping among immigrants in a cooperatively breeding bird. Proc Biol Sci (2008) 1.12

Selection on non-social traits limits the invasion of social cheats. Ecol Lett (2012) 1.12

Siderophore production and biofilm formation as linked social traits. ISME J (2009) 0.99

Mechanisms of pathogenesis, infective dose and virulence in human parasites. PLoS Pathog (2012) 0.97

Origins of altruism diversity II: Runaway coevolution of altruistic strategies via "reciprocal niche construction". Evolution (2012) 0.96

Kin selection, quorum sensing and virulence in pathogenic bacteria. Proc Biol Sci (2012) 0.94

Coevolution between cooperators and cheats in a microbial system. Evolution (2009) 0.92

Microbial communication and virulence: lessons from evolutionary theory. Microbiology (2010) 0.91

Within-host parasite cooperation and the evolution of virulence. Proc Biol Sci (2011) 0.87

Quantifying the reproduction of Bacillus thuringiensis HD1 in cadavers and live larvae of Plutella xylostella. J Invertebr Pathol (2008) 0.83

Altruism and the evolution of resource generalism and specialism. Ecol Evol (2012) 0.78

Wider access to genotypic space facilitates loss of cooperation in a bacterial mutator. PLoS One (2011) 0.77