ReviewCurrent opinion in biotechnology2012
Engineering microbial systems to explore ecological and evolutionary dynamics.
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26 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Comparative Metagenomic Studies Reveal Different Evolutionary Directions of Synthetic Indoor Microbial Communities Under Different Nutritional Conditions.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Design of bacterial DNT sensors based on computational models.Nucleic acids research · 2026Article
- Exploring interspecific interaction variability in microbiota: A review.Engineering microbiology · 2024Review
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- Understanding Interaction Patterns within Deep-Sea Microbial Communities and Their Potential Applications.Marine drugs · 2022Review
- Evolutionary Pathways and Trajectories in Antibiotic Resistance.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2021Article
- The microbiome and human cancer.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2021Review
- The engineering of spatially linked microbial consortia - potential and perspectives.Current opinion in biotechnology · 2020Review
- Timing between successive introduction events determines establishment success in bacteria with an Allee effect.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Exploiting rhizosphere microbial cooperation for developing sustainable agriculture strategies.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2018Review
- Initial evenness determines diversity and cell density dynamics in synthetic microbial ecosystems.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- A stabilized microbial ecosystem of self-limiting bacteria using synthetic quorum-regulated lysis.Nature microbiology · 2017Article
- Cooperation and competition shape ecological resistance during periodic spatial disturbance of engineered bacteria.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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- On the Origins and Control of Community Types in the Human Microbiome.PLoS computational biology · 2016Article
- Bacterial social interactions drive the emergence of differential spatial colony structures.BMC systems biology · 2015Article
- Stress-response balance drives the evolution of a network module and its host genome.Molecular systems biology · 2015Article
- Collective antibiotic tolerance: mechanisms, dynamics and intervention.Nature chemical biology · 2015Review
- An Economic Framework of Microbial Trade.PloS one · 2015Article
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Abstract
A major goal of biological research is to provide a mechanistic understanding of diverse biological processes. To this end, synthetic biology offers a powerful approach, whereby biological questions can be addressed in a well-defined framework. By constructing simple gene circuits, such studies have generated new insights into the design principles of gene regulatory networks. Recently, this strategy has been applied to analyze ecological and evolutionary questions, where population-level interactions are critical. Here, we highlight recent development of such systems and discuss how they were used to address problems in ecology and evolutionary biology. As illustrated by these examples, synthetic ecosystems provide a unique platform to study ecological and evolutionary phenomena that are challenging to study in their natural contexts.
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