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Different environments can favour division of labour that is either random (phenotypic noise) or tightly coordinated Guy A Cooper Ming Liu jooj nature.com/articles/s4146…

Tolerance and resistance of microbial biofilms Ciofu and colleagues discuss our current understanding of the mechanisms of tolerance of biofilms to the immune system as well as tolerance and resistance to antimicrobials rdcu.be/cGlKn

Genomic signatures of kin selection for cooperation, in the bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which suggests the average relatedness is r=0.84. pnas.org/content/119/9/… Melanie Ghoul Dr Laurie Belcher Anna Dewar

As promised: a more detailed thread on our Science paper: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Focusing on two of the most common reasons for prescribing antibiotics: UTIs and wound infections, we wanted to better understand how resistance emerges during antibiotic treatment.

We looked at how horizontal gene transfer might influence the emergence and stability of cooperative virulence in Salmonella. Just out Nature Communications with @DiardLab. nature.com/articles/s4146… . More details below!

New preprint, looking for signatures of kin selection in a natural population of the bacteria Bacillus subtilis. Spoiler alert - we found them. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Dr Laurie Belcher Anna Dewar Chunhui Hao Melanie Ghoul

New paper showing that social genes do not have higher connectivity than non-social genes, across 136 species. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.10… Chunhui Hao Anna Dewar Melanie Ghoul

Pathogen transmission modes determine contact network structure, altering other pathogen characteristics tinyurl.com/5422msht Analyses of 232 animal contact #networks demonstrates that network structure may drive the #evolution of #pathogen traits. Royal Society Publishing Shweta Bansal

Why do mothers desert their offspring? - Remating opportunities and low costs underlie maternal desertion tiny.cc/1k12vz Kentish Plover females desert offspring to capitalise on additional breeding opportunities while abandoned males raise offspring alone. Evolution Journal

The fundamental principle of our new book is simple: The reader must come first. Getting a busy and distracted person to read your paper is an incredible achievement. tinyurl.com/d4stskam @QueensOxBiology @DewanPandora

Disentangling the causes of temporal variation in the opportunity for sexual selection rdcu.be/c6aOt Nature Communications Data from multiple animals show the opportunity for sexual selection varies rapidly through time and simulations may help avoid misinterpretation

Some viruses do this crazy thing where the genome is split into different fragments, which are then each transmitted separately. We show that this can evolve quite easily by selection for 'cheating'. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

Really cool Evolution Letters from Stuart West Melanie Ghoul and colleagues Signatures of kin selection in a natural population of the bacteria Bacillus subtilis academic.oup.com/evlett/advance…

Kin selection for cooperation in a natural population of the bacteria Bacillus subtilis. R=0.79. academic.oup.com/evlett/advance… Dr Laurie Belcher Melanie Ghoul Anna Dewar Chunhui Hao

Venturing into the real world for our paper on bacterial persistence. In the absence of any genetic signature, we can still find evidence of positive selection in the lung. Evolution Letters Oxford Biology SandraBreumAndersen Melanie Ghoul European Research Council (ERC) academic.oup.com/evlett/article…

This was a long time coming! We find that antibiotic tolerance precedes resistance in cystic fibrosis chronic infections - but as always, nature is messy: Only for some drugs and clone types academic.oup.com/evlett/advance… with Ashleigh Griffin Melanie Ghoul Rasmus Lykke Marvig Lars Jelsbak

Long-term evolution of antibiotic tolerance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infections doi.org/10.1093/evlett… Now in Evolution Letters by Melanie Ghoul, SandraBreumAndersen, RL Marvig, HK Johansen, L Jelsbak, S Molin, G Perron, and Ashleigh Griffin

Amazing to see this finally out!! Congratulations @Aurore_Picot Rita Di Martino 👏

Why do pangenomes vary so much across bacteria? 🦠🧬 We show that bacterial lifestyle is the key factor shaping pangenome fluidity. Read more in our paper out now in PNAS: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… With Chunhui Hao Dr Laurie Belcher Melanie Ghoul Stuart West

Bacteria with more variable lifestyles have more fluid pangenomes. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Anna Dewar Chunhui Hao Dr Laurie Belcher Melanie Ghoul