ReviewNature communications2021
Principles of seed banks and the emergence of complexity from dormancy.
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45 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Metabolic inequality in microbial communities.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Seed dormancy shapes gene drive dynamics in plants.Nature plants · 2026Article
- Emergence of microbial host dormancy during a persistent virus epidemic.Journal of mathematical biology · 2026Article
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- Not Just Ne Ne-More: New Applications for SMC from Ecology to Phylogenies.Genome biology and evolution · 2026Review
- Genomic perspectives on the inference of evolutionary changes in ecological life-history traits.Quantitative plant biology · 2026Review
- Ecological Processes Shaping Marine Microbial Assemblages Diverge Between Equatorial and Temperate Time-Series.Molecular ecology · 2026Article
- Activation dynamics and assembly of root zone soil bacterial communities in response to stress-associated phytohormones.Microbiology spectrum · 2025Article
- Millennia-Long Evolution of Temperature and Salinity Dependence of a Baltic Sea Diatom Revealed by Resurrection Experiments.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Changes with time post-restoration in the relationships between soil seed bank and aboveground vegetation in a reclaimed open-pit coal mine.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Resuscitation-promoting factor (Rpf) terminates dormancy among diverse soil bacteria.mSystems · 2025Article
- Bayesian phylodynamic inference of population dynamics with dormancy.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
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Abstract
Across the tree of life, populations have evolved the capacity to contend with suboptimal conditions by engaging in dormancy, whereby individuals enter a reversible state of reduced metabolic activity. The resulting seed banks are complex, storing information and imparting memory that gives rise to multi-scale structures and networks spanning collections of cells to entire ecosystems. We outline the fundamental attributes and emergent phenomena associated with dormancy and seed banks, with the vision for a unifying and mathematically based framework that can address problems in the life sciences, ranging from global change to cancer biology.
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